McClelland No. 2010 Classic Virginia
(3.15)
This is a blend of Eastern and Middle Belt lemon, orange, and orange-red Virginias. A sweet, smooth, and zesty smoke.
Details
| Brand | McClelland |
| Blended By | McClelland Tobacco Company |
| Manufactured By | McClelland Tobacco Company |
| Blend Type | Straight Virginia |
| Contents | Virginia |
| Flavoring | |
| Cut | Broken Flake |
| Packaging | Bulk |
| Country | United States |
| Production | No longer in production |
Profile
Strength
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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3.15 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 1 - 10 of 11 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jan 21, 2016 | Mild | Extremely Mild | Mild to Medium | Tolerable |
This is an entirely competent lighter sweet Virginia blend, pressed into fairly thick flakes and served up broken. As many others have mentioned, it's not the blend you want if you're looking for heavy VA body, 2010 plays on the yellow and orange end of the VA pool.
Construction, as always with McClelland, is flawless. It burns very cool and very clean. It can easily be stuffed as broken flake or broken up further. It never burns in a temperamental way, doesn't require many relights, and burns to good ash.
This is a perfect component to add to red VAs or for lightening up a heavy blend. I use it primarily as a blender, and it's well suited for that. It is very useful for bringing down the temperature of a hot blend or for adjusting the burn rate of finer cuts. It also presses and stoves well with other VA, although if you stove it long it'll lose some of the high notes.
I give it a solid two stars, it's super easy to blend with and brings a lot of desirable traits to a home blend, even though it's not going to knock anyone's socks off alone.
Construction, as always with McClelland, is flawless. It burns very cool and very clean. It can easily be stuffed as broken flake or broken up further. It never burns in a temperamental way, doesn't require many relights, and burns to good ash.
This is a perfect component to add to red VAs or for lightening up a heavy blend. I use it primarily as a blender, and it's well suited for that. It is very useful for bringing down the temperature of a hot blend or for adjusting the burn rate of finer cuts. It also presses and stoves well with other VA, although if you stove it long it'll lose some of the high notes.
I give it a solid two stars, it's super easy to blend with and brings a lot of desirable traits to a home blend, even though it's not going to knock anyone's socks off alone.
Pipe Used:
basket pipe
Age When Smoked:
various ages
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 05, 2009 | Very Mild | None Detected | Extremely Mild (Flat) | Tolerable |
This is the first McClelland VA to disappoint me. Just can't get any noticeable flavor out of the blend. Tried it in my usual VA pipes (3/4" bore), larger bores, & smaller. Not tried it in a meer, that will be next. Dried, not dried, rubbed out, broken flake, folded, no difference. It's just too light, and I find my self smoking faster witch makes it hot attempting to squeeze out any flavor. Maybe some 5100 will perk it up? I've not cracked the code or it just doesn't work, either way, 1 1/2 stars to date.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Apr 02, 2009 | Mild | None Detected | Mild | Pleasant |
I dried a bit of this tobacco for almost an hour before smoking it. I could taste the sweet taste of the Virginias but there just wasn't enough of it to satisfy me. There was little body and volume to the smoke. If there were "light" versions of pipe tobacco, like there are light beers and light cigarettes, then this blend would be a light Virginia.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jul 10, 2008 | Mild | None Detected | Very Mild | Pleasant to Tolerable |
This flake came to me via one of the websites in bulk, the site escapes me...well they delivered quickly and the booty was in great shape.
I found this flake to be slightly wet, no big deal, and slightly broken. After breaking it up a bit more and drying it for about an hour, I found it packed and lit well. Medium volume of smoke while sipping this flake.
Basically this is an unremarkable flake. Very mild and forward in its mildness/blandness. Recently I have been smoking heavily stoked latakia blends as well as stronger VAs. There is the typical VA flavor, but it simply is not strong enough to really affect my palate. I would have thought this was because my palate has been so inundated by the English and Balkan blends I typically smoke, but in comparison to Dunhill's light flake this is a loser for me.
I found this flake to be slightly wet, no big deal, and slightly broken. After breaking it up a bit more and drying it for about an hour, I found it packed and lit well. Medium volume of smoke while sipping this flake.
Basically this is an unremarkable flake. Very mild and forward in its mildness/blandness. Recently I have been smoking heavily stoked latakia blends as well as stronger VAs. There is the typical VA flavor, but it simply is not strong enough to really affect my palate. I would have thought this was because my palate has been so inundated by the English and Balkan blends I typically smoke, but in comparison to Dunhill's light flake this is a loser for me.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 12, 2006 | Mild | None Detected | Mild | Pleasant to Tolerable |
Shallow! This is the first Virginia I have ever had, that had absolutely no body. I kept expecting the fullness of flavors from a normal Va. but they never appeared. I did get a cool, crisp upper note with a pleasant taste. But I was so distracted by the lack of depth I was unable to really enjoy this tobacco.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 31, 2006 | Mild to Medium | None Detected | Mild | Tolerable |
If you are looking for a decent bulk Virginia, that's on the mild side, here is the ticket. The price is nice too. It doesn't have enough character for me to spend too much time with it, but it is good.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 23, 2006 | Mild | None Detected | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
This is a probably a pretty good virginia, with age. Straight from the supplier, it was very sharp and lacks a some depth. Not bad, just not ready. As is it's pretty far from 'classic'. I'll have to update this after aging some.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 09, 2006 | Very Mild | Extremely Mild | Extremely Mild (Flat) | Tolerable |
This is a good quality Virginia, which leans much more to the lemon & golden end of the spectrum, rather than the orange-red end. It's too light for my tastes, but was less likely to bite than other light Virginias I've tried. I much prefer the fuller, sweeter flavor of their 5100 Red Cake. When I'm in the mood for a light Virginia, I greatly prefer Mac Baren's Virginia #1 or Virginia Flake.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 28, 2006 | Mild to Medium | None Detected | Mild to Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
This virginia seems coarse and unrefined. It's hot and edgy, but it does have flavor.
I much prefer the Heart Virginia at pipesandcigars.com or Peterson's University Flake but this tobacco isn't bad.
It has a unique taste and I appreciate the citrusy near-oriental after-smack.
Slow-smoke it though; it's got some teeth.
Images evoked by smoking it are that of a goblin plucking his teeth with the femur of a slain teenaged fawn.
I much prefer the Heart Virginia at pipesandcigars.com or Peterson's University Flake but this tobacco isn't bad.
It has a unique taste and I appreciate the citrusy near-oriental after-smack.
Slow-smoke it though; it's got some teeth.
Images evoked by smoking it are that of a goblin plucking his teeth with the femur of a slain teenaged fawn.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 12, 2006 | Mild to Medium | None Detected | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
This tobacco has a wonderful presentation: beautiful pale and dark brown flakes, very thick but easy to rub. The smell is classic Virginia: sweet, slightly pungent with just a touch of McClelland "ketchup". After having rubbes the flakes the packing and lighting are easy and the burning proceeds without any problem. Pay attention to smoke it slowly, because it can easy become hot and moist. As expected, this tobacco doesn't deliver a great amount of flavour but it keeps consistent throughout the bowl: it's a really classic Virginia, sweet, tangy, a little cigarettish. Neither too good nor too bad, just too simple to reach a top score.
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