Mac Baren Plumcake
(2.88)
A mixture of fully ripe Virginia tobaccos, sliced, cask mellowed burley tobaccos, dark spicy cavendish and just a touch of latakia. To give Plumcake an elegant aroma, the blend has been flavoured with aged Jamaica rum.
NEW TIN DESCRIPTION: Plumcake brings the thoughts back to old times, when the sailors onboard the sailing ships filled their pipe with good, satisfying tobacco and having the scent of tar and saltwater all around them. Bright Virginia tobaccos mixed with burley, a little original Mac Baren cavendish and just a touch of [Cyprian] latakia. On top of this masterly made blend original Jamaica Rum has been added to fulfill the impression. This blend is full bodied and rich, giving you the taste nuances of natural sweetness added with a slight taste of smoke, latakia and the distinctive aroma of sailor rum.
Notes: Introduced in 1957.
As of 01/30/2019, according to Per Georg Jensen of Mac Baren it has "Latakia from Cyprus, it is many years since the Latakia from Syria were used.".
Details
| Brand | Mac Baren |
| Blended By | Harald Halberg |
| Manufactured By | Mac Baren |
| Blend Type | Aromatic |
| Contents | Black Cavendish, Burley, Latakia, Virginia |
| Flavoring | Rum |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | 100 grams tin, 50 grams pouch, 16 ounce bag |
| Country | Denmark |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Mild to Medium
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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2.88 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 281 - 290 of 297 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 14, 2006 | Mild to Medium | Mild | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
My second attempt at a MCBaren blend, the first being Mixture. I'm afraid I don't see that much difference between the two. The reason I can say that is because after smoking a bowl of either one of those blends, I couldn't taste anything due to my tongue being fried.
I'm going to keep trying this tobacco though as it comes highly rated.
I'm going to keep trying this tobacco though as it comes highly rated.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 07, 2006 | Mild | Very Mild | Medium | Pleasant |
Typical of most MB blends. Bitey, a little syrupy, bland but a good amount of Tobacco for the price...Nine dollars for the large tin. Perhpas you might want to try this blend if you have not experimented with Danish blends.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jan 02, 2006 | Mild to Medium | Very Mild | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
If you can master this stuff, This would be great- Turns my tounge into Road rash. I so much wanted to love this stuff. Smell and cut were right up my alley. First few puffs- Tongue stinging...Went to breath smoking- Tounge got destroyed. Use with caution- Starting to believe in the MacBaren curse.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 02, 2005 | Medium to Strong | Mild to Medium | Medium | Tolerable |
In my relatively fresh experience as a pipe smoker it was in the first 25 grams of this tin that, during after dinner walks with man's best friend (dog and Italian briar pipe), I found a fantastic aroma taste stepping stone to take me from aromatics to the maturity of a more "serious" tobacco.
Then, once I pinched into the second 25 g. portion of the tin I . . . ZZZzzz
Then, once I pinched into the second 25 g. portion of the tin I . . . ZZZzzz
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jun 22, 2005 | Mild | Mild | Mild | Tolerable |
Sounds nice doesn't it? its not though. Thoroughly abysmal in fact. It tastes/smells like a combination of paper and an Australian bush fire. Plus it will torch your tongue like one too.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jun 15, 2005 | Mild to Medium | Mild to Medium | Medium | Pleasant |
European aromatic with a rum casing. The room note is pleasent. I never tasted any Latakia throughout the 100 gram tin, not even a subtle poking through. The VA/Burley in this is very tempermental and will fry the tounge if smoked to fast or to often. Nothing here to bring me back.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Sep 04, 2004 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
September 2004
I am not a huge aromatic fan--I think years of cigarette smoking dulled my palate. I just can't taste the sweetness others seem to enjoy in aromatics. Nevertheless, this blend is probably my favorite aromatic to date. I'll finish the current tin but probably will not buy more anytime soon.
I am not a huge aromatic fan--I think years of cigarette smoking dulled my palate. I just can't taste the sweetness others seem to enjoy in aromatics. Nevertheless, this blend is probably my favorite aromatic to date. I'll finish the current tin but probably will not buy more anytime soon.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 17, 2004 | Medium to Strong | Medium | Mild to Medium | Very Pleasant |
The smell of this stuff is like dryed raisins (a good glass of rum). In fact you get in this smoke what you smell, but do we really need to burn our tongue with all this sugar stuff ???
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 03, 2003 | Mild | Mild to Medium | Mild to Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
IMHO, this tobacco is pure crap! I wouldn't waste my time with it when there are other fine tobaccos made by Mac B. Somebody said it was like a house fire.I can top that,its more like the crap house door on a tuna boat burning.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Sep 10, 2003 | Mild to Medium | Mild to Medium | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
Ah yes, another fine offering in the aromatic vein from MacBaren. The Danes truly have a way with aromatics, less heavy and goopy than many American offerings. To me, the tin aroma is neither plums (as suggested by the name) or of rum (as appears in the tin description). It just smells--- good. Even compared to other MB aromatics (Black Ambrosia and Vanilla Cream come to mind) the topping is relatively restrained, maybe more on the level of MB's Highland Mixture.
My tin came a little on the moist side, and given that this is a MB w/ virginias, tongue bite was a concern. I dried it out for a couple of hrs in my desktop and then loaded a well broken in kind-of-anything bent bulldog with a wide, shallow bowl. This pipe for some reason has been good to me w/r/t tongue bite. Easily lit, it had from the first a good combination of aromatic flavor and tobacco, unlike many more heavily topped aromatics that save the tobacco taste until the aromatics have volatilized. Good stuff. Care with the puffing technique and no bite throughout the bowl. The taste was fairly consistent throughout as well, with the natural caramelly sweetness from the virginias evident to the end.
After about half a tin, my main complaint with this blend is that it is too easy to smoke. I usually smoke aromatics while driving (they don't leave lingering oppressive rank odors like my fav. Englishes) and I find that I can over-puff while thinking of other things, resulting in a MB trademark bite. But that is my problem, not the tobacco's.
I find the room aroma quite pleasant, as sampled from the slipstream, but then I find most tobacco odors pleasant, at least when fresh. Indeed this olfactory feedback is one of the rewards of smoking aromatics.
While I am loath to suggest aromatics to those who do not care for them, I feel that this would be an good occasional smoke for the confirmed virginia smoker, especially one with a well broken-in tongue.
My tin came a little on the moist side, and given that this is a MB w/ virginias, tongue bite was a concern. I dried it out for a couple of hrs in my desktop and then loaded a well broken in kind-of-anything bent bulldog with a wide, shallow bowl. This pipe for some reason has been good to me w/r/t tongue bite. Easily lit, it had from the first a good combination of aromatic flavor and tobacco, unlike many more heavily topped aromatics that save the tobacco taste until the aromatics have volatilized. Good stuff. Care with the puffing technique and no bite throughout the bowl. The taste was fairly consistent throughout as well, with the natural caramelly sweetness from the virginias evident to the end.
After about half a tin, my main complaint with this blend is that it is too easy to smoke. I usually smoke aromatics while driving (they don't leave lingering oppressive rank odors like my fav. Englishes) and I find that I can over-puff while thinking of other things, resulting in a MB trademark bite. But that is my problem, not the tobacco's.
I find the room aroma quite pleasant, as sampled from the slipstream, but then I find most tobacco odors pleasant, at least when fresh. Indeed this olfactory feedback is one of the rewards of smoking aromatics.
While I am loath to suggest aromatics to those who do not care for them, I feel that this would be an good occasional smoke for the confirmed virginia smoker, especially one with a well broken-in tongue.
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