McClelland No. 2000 Fragrant Matured Cake
(2.88)
This is a really distinctive tobacco that will enable you to satisfy and upgrade many aromatic smokers who have been sacrificing cleanness of burning to obtain a sweet aroma.
Details
| Brand | McClelland |
| Blended By | McClelland Tobacco Company |
| Manufactured By | McClelland Tobacco Company |
| Blend Type | Aromatic |
| Contents | Virginia |
| Flavoring | Cream, Nougat, Other / Misc |
| Cut | Broken Flake |
| Packaging | Bulk |
| Country | United States |
| Production | No longer in production |
Profile
Strength
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Mild
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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2.88 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 11 - 20 of 48 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 20, 2008 | Mild | Mild to Medium | Mild | Pleasant |
I like this a lot. It reminds me of Mc honeydew although not quite as dark and not quite exactly the same flavor. It seems like a lighter version (in color) without the mollases, the flavor is very simillar. The tin aroma is close to the same. Sweet and almost tropical.
Needs a little drying out to avoid a wet dottle- after drying overnight I got a sweet smoke and a dry finish all the way to the heel. Smokes pretty smooth and sweet. Could easily be an all day smoke.
A good mild flavorful smoke with mainly a vanilla to hazelnut flavor. Great with morning or anytime coffee. I found this flake to have no bite as long as dried some first and you can actually puff down on this some. I normally sip but this one I enjoy to puff on.
I guess I would have to classify this as a crossover blend. Although it is not at all like a goopy aromatic, it has enough flavoring to accentuate the tobacco not mask it. Pretty well done. Smokes good as delivered but I would think aging would not hurt.
I really like the flavor of heavy english blends and va flakes but am finding myself able to enjoy the light ones quite a bit. The flavors are not in your face as much but they are more subtle and pleasent.
I reccomend you try this if you like flakes but miss aromatics occasionally. Pretty good stuff. Reccomended to anyone, but especially to newbies to flakes looking for a better smoke than aromatics- it's not gonna scare you off.
Update: I am enjoying this stuff- This earned a good rating.
It has a light vanilla taste and goes so good with the tobacco base. You must try this if you want a flavored tobacco that is not what you would consider aromatic. It smells good too despite what I just said. My friends tell me it smells like toasty vanilla a lot like a coffe shop. For reference though I never get many complaints except the girlfriend does not like latakia I know. My other friends that latakia smells like incense though when I'm smoking it so I guess it's a personal thing there. But this fine va blend should not offend anyone, it's rare one smells like it tastes but this is it.
Needs a little drying out to avoid a wet dottle- after drying overnight I got a sweet smoke and a dry finish all the way to the heel. Smokes pretty smooth and sweet. Could easily be an all day smoke.
A good mild flavorful smoke with mainly a vanilla to hazelnut flavor. Great with morning or anytime coffee. I found this flake to have no bite as long as dried some first and you can actually puff down on this some. I normally sip but this one I enjoy to puff on.
I guess I would have to classify this as a crossover blend. Although it is not at all like a goopy aromatic, it has enough flavoring to accentuate the tobacco not mask it. Pretty well done. Smokes good as delivered but I would think aging would not hurt.
I really like the flavor of heavy english blends and va flakes but am finding myself able to enjoy the light ones quite a bit. The flavors are not in your face as much but they are more subtle and pleasent.
I reccomend you try this if you like flakes but miss aromatics occasionally. Pretty good stuff. Reccomended to anyone, but especially to newbies to flakes looking for a better smoke than aromatics- it's not gonna scare you off.
Update: I am enjoying this stuff- This earned a good rating.
It has a light vanilla taste and goes so good with the tobacco base. You must try this if you want a flavored tobacco that is not what you would consider aromatic. It smells good too despite what I just said. My friends tell me it smells like toasty vanilla a lot like a coffe shop. For reference though I never get many complaints except the girlfriend does not like latakia I know. My other friends that latakia smells like incense though when I'm smoking it so I guess it's a personal thing there. But this fine va blend should not offend anyone, it's rare one smells like it tastes but this is it.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 16, 2008 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Pleasant |
I have many pounds of this in the cellar, and I have been smoking a one year old sample. I like this tobacco in a deep straight walled bowl, with very thick walls. I think it smells and tastes rather like an almondine, maple flavoring, with an underlying deep Virginia flavor. I have devoted a pipe to this blend alone, which probably enhances the flavor for the better. (devoting a specific pipe to a specific blend is a wonderful justification to keep buying additional pipes, by the way). I think this blend benefits from aging, and drying out as well. The fragrance and flavor reminds me of Christmas, and Mrs. Frosty loves the room note, which she says smells like chocolate. This stuff can bite if not aged and dried. I rub out the 1/3 bottom of the bowl quite thoroughly, as this is the only way to get it to burn all the way to the heel. Nicotine is medium I suppose, no buzz but satisfying to me. A quality aromatic, nothing at all like the goopy stuff at the drugstores. I really like it. Just remember to dry it or it will bite.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 05, 2006 | Mild to Medium | Mild | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
2000 is a great flake, more mild than my usual poison, it has a coffee vanilla hazelnut, whiff to it and is an excellant all day va. perfect for someone new to flake.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 24, 2018 | Mild | Very Mild | Medium to Full | Pleasant |
This is a fantastic broken flake with a nice very light casing that lasts throughout the bowl. I have cellared a bunch of this to see how it ages. Highly recommended
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Feb 20, 2018 | Mild to Medium | Mild to Medium | Mild to Medium | Very Pleasant |
I was intrigued immediately by the "Fragrant Matured Cake" name and decided I needed some. First off, the "tin" note is glorious. Some have suggested nougat, some cream, even some vanilla, and I would say, "yes". It's difficult to pinpoint, actually, but it makes for a creamy experience.
The Virginias offer a sweeping array of the spectrum, hitting most of the lemon-grassy notes while still providing a bit of zesty, tangy, mustiness. The topping was really consistent through the smoke, and was never overpowering, per se, but I did find myself wanting more of the tobacco's taste. However, this blend is deemed a crossover, and for a crossover, it is purely fantastic. This comes in a broken flake that can be easy to rub out if need be, and did come a little moist, so dry it some. Another benefit of drying this blend is because if tried to smoke wet, it will jump up and bite your tongue pretty fiercely, which I most certainly was not a fan of. However, with some dry time, and a slower cadence, this is a well behaved Virginia. The nicotine level is pretty much straight between mild and medium, I did notice the nicotine a bit more than some of their other blends, such as 5100 and 2010.
Overall, this is a perfect crossover for someone who is looking for the bridge between Aromatics and Virginas. It will give you the tasty Virginias and the sweetness of a casing/topping with minimal wetness, comparably. For the Virginia smokers out there, this will serve as a nice treat, a desert smoke, if you will.
The Virginias offer a sweeping array of the spectrum, hitting most of the lemon-grassy notes while still providing a bit of zesty, tangy, mustiness. The topping was really consistent through the smoke, and was never overpowering, per se, but I did find myself wanting more of the tobacco's taste. However, this blend is deemed a crossover, and for a crossover, it is purely fantastic. This comes in a broken flake that can be easy to rub out if need be, and did come a little moist, so dry it some. Another benefit of drying this blend is because if tried to smoke wet, it will jump up and bite your tongue pretty fiercely, which I most certainly was not a fan of. However, with some dry time, and a slower cadence, this is a well behaved Virginia. The nicotine level is pretty much straight between mild and medium, I did notice the nicotine a bit more than some of their other blends, such as 5100 and 2010.
Overall, this is a perfect crossover for someone who is looking for the bridge between Aromatics and Virginas. It will give you the tasty Virginias and the sweetness of a casing/topping with minimal wetness, comparably. For the Virginia smokers out there, this will serve as a nice treat, a desert smoke, if you will.
Pipe Used:
Briar
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jan 22, 2016 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Medium | Pleasant |
May as well start with the elephant in the room: McClelland 2000 is fairly heavily topped with some sweet flavoring, and it wants to burn much hotter than anything else in the 2000 series of bulk tobaccos because of this. This is one of the very few straight VA tobaccos that I recommend a short and wide pipe for, just to keep the temps down. Forget the benefits of deep stoving, heat control is much more important here if you're going to smoke it straight. I don't any more, except to remind myself of the flavor when I'm going to blend it.
The topping is consistent throughout, although it'll get quite ashy on relight sometimes. This makes it useful as a blender for good quality unflavored Cavendish, nothing about the flavoring is offensive when it's laid over some sweet black leaf. I would start with a balanced mix of No. 2000 and black Cavendish and then add maybe 20% of P&C's excellent white cube cut Burley for depth, everything gets very pleasant fast when this is blended for cool burning.
The leaf is excellent - it's McClelland after all. I never get any acetic acid smell, so folks who are turned off by that can try this without worries.
Two stars - it's a fine, if niche, aromatic blender.
The topping is consistent throughout, although it'll get quite ashy on relight sometimes. This makes it useful as a blender for good quality unflavored Cavendish, nothing about the flavoring is offensive when it's laid over some sweet black leaf. I would start with a balanced mix of No. 2000 and black Cavendish and then add maybe 20% of P&C's excellent white cube cut Burley for depth, everything gets very pleasant fast when this is blended for cool burning.
The leaf is excellent - it's McClelland after all. I never get any acetic acid smell, so folks who are turned off by that can try this without worries.
Two stars - it's a fine, if niche, aromatic blender.
Pipe Used:
basket pipes
Age When Smoked:
fresh
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 02, 2015 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Mild | Pleasant |
McClelland 2010 is one of my current favorites, and 2015 takes up no small space in the cellar, and I love good aromatics. So a natural fit, right? Except that this stuff doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up. The aromatic doesn't hold throughout, and the Virginia flavor is lacking.
McClelland 2000 has the same problem that Pease's The Virginia Cream does - it's trying too hard to be everything to everyone. Maybe I'm just not cut out for crossovers.
McClelland 2000 has the same problem that Pease's The Virginia Cream does - it's trying too hard to be everything to everyone. Maybe I'm just not cut out for crossovers.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 27, 2013 | Mild to Medium | Mild to Medium | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
It took a while and then struck me. .. Tastewise this is simply a stronger and much fuller version of the famous 1Q/BCA mixture. Virginias with a light dressing of coconut, vanilla and caramel. Unfortunately, like for some others here, it bit me so badly (roof of mouth) that I had to give it away. I suspect this is due to individual mouth chemistry, so by all means give it a try!
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jul 11, 2013 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
Amazing aroma in the bag but as with many aromatics the flavor doesn't hold up when smoked - it has a pleasant maple/vanilla sweetness but none of the intensity of the aroma.
The flakes came a bit too wet but after some drying they smoke fine. As with most flakes I rub them out beforehand.
The flakes came a bit too wet but after some drying they smoke fine. As with most flakes I rub them out beforehand.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| May 02, 2013 | Mild to Medium | Mild to Medium | Medium to Full | Tolerable |
McClelland Bulk No. 2000 - Fragrant Matured Cake [small cake cut]
Star Rating = 4
Pouch Note = 8
Room Note = 8
Flavor = 8
Bite = 8
Burn = 8
After Taste = 8
Raw Score = 48
Rated Percentage = 80%
Comment = Smooth, Mild, great full Flavor, bowl burned a long time
Star Rating = 4
Pouch Note = 8
Room Note = 8
Flavor = 8
Bite = 8
Burn = 8
After Taste = 8
Raw Score = 48
Rated Percentage = 80%
Comment = Smooth, Mild, great full Flavor, bowl burned a long time
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