McClelland No. 5125 Coyote Classic Full

The various fragrant Orientals and Turkish provide a lot of earth, wood, herbs, vegetation, leather, a moderate amount of tingly spice, floralness, some butter, and mild dry sourness as the lead components. The smoky, woody, earthy, musty, incense-like, sweet Cyprian Latakia just reaches the supporting player status. The matured Virginia offers some tangy ripe dark fruit, earth, wood, bread, and a few floral, sugary notes as a condiment. A sweet sugary topping of some kind mildly sublimates the tobaccos. The strength and nic-hit are medium, while the taste just steps across that line. Won’t bite or get harsh, but it does sport some rough edges, and the spice content can tingle your tongue a mite. I recommend a slow puffing cadence. Burns fairly cool at a reasonable rate with a very consistent, deeply rich, sweet and spicy, savory, mildly campfire flavor that translates to the pleasantly lingering after taste. the room note is a tad stronger. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires an average number of relights. A repeatable smoke, but not an all day experience.

-JimInks

This is a blend that satisfies my Oriental cravings. I smoked Camel cigs for 37 years because I loved the flavor of Turkish tobacco. After I quit them I still craved that flavor. When I started smoking a pipe I found myself drawn to English and Balkan blends for that reason. While this isn't a perfect blend, it certainly delivers the Turkish goods. A little more body would be nice, but it's pretty dang good as is.

Almost mild in body, I'll give it mild to medium. Medium in flavor. Came a bit dry and burns well. Oriental/Turkish tobaccos can sometimes be a bit sharp to someone who retro-hales as much as I do. The Turkish here is very smooth and does not cause any irritation to the nasal passages.

A medium bodied Balkan marketed with a cowboy theme. This is what happens when the pipe world has hundreds or thousands of largely indistinguishable products being sold to a small consumer base. The lesson perhaps is to exercise some caution in avoiding the power of suggestion.

This baccy has a fair component of Lat, enough to mostly bury the other Oriental components for me. More discerning noses might fare better. The Virginias are more prominent than the product description suggests. They add ample sweetness and a citrus acidity. This is not a Lat bomb in the way Pirate Kake is for example, but it is getting up into that territory. That's not a bad thing; it's a Lat forward blend that can be smoked all day. I guess that's where the marketing sort of makes sense.

I liked this tobacco, but then I am a sucker for the combination of tangy sweet McC Virginias coupled with Orientals, including Latakia. It burns well, without bite, and produces lovely creamy smoke. I loved the room note but the wife got mouthy about it, so some caution there as well.

A strong 3 stars and I might upgrade it to 4 if it continues to please.

I picked this up on a suggestion at a tobacco shop in Abilene after telling them I was looking for something smoky and earthy. This hit it on the head. It isn't my favorite but I definity keep some on hand and it goes really well sitting outside in the evening with a Kentucky whisky and some good friends. It might be a bit much indoors with nonsmokers around but outside it is perfect and elicits many of the "I just love the smell of a pipe" comments. It does seem to burn a bit wet as packaged so a bit of drying would probably help.

I took a chance on this tobacco because of the dashing description of itself, "will bring the smoker so much pleasure he'll howl like a coyote." I usually buy a half a dozen new tobaccos every time I order to expand my palette. This one Coyote Classic Full (CCF) is one of five containers that now sit empty in my desk drawer. Westminster, Odyssey, Presbyterian, and Lancer's Slices are the others. How about another line of catchy marketing - "good to the last drop"! There are 22 other blends in my desk that reside in partial containers.

Anyway back to CCF, it seems to have just the right moisture content to smoke right out of the bag to burn with minimal relighting. CCF is also easy on the tongue, has no nicotine kick, and tastes good. Again I have only smoked a pipe for 2 years; 27 different tobaccos so instead of intricate phrasing like "tastes leathery", I just classify them taste good or tastes bad. I would recommend you try CCF, but it did not make my reorder list; for me there are many others I want to try. The only pipe tobacco I have reordered is Westminster, I would order more Lancer's Slices but it is out of stock at Smoking Pipes. I like the way their website is setup, so I buy there and buy enough to usually get free shipping.

If you are looking for an Oriental/English for social times, this is not your tobacco. If you are looking for a smoke that you can enjoy in peace and solitude, and want something with a bit of body this is your tobacco. While not as good as LondonBlend 1000 it has a similar body and texture. The oriental is not as pronounced as I would like but about the last 1/3 of the bowl, it comes into play. My big complaint is all the crap pieces that showed up in my pound I purchased. There were plenty of stems and other misc. garbage parts that had to be sorted out. It also seemed a bit tricky to pack. I do enjoy this tobacco but with many other blends that do the same type of thing for me, I will only be able to say that it was worth a try but, will not replace some others in my rotation.

Coyote 5125 and its cousin 5110 (Full English) are American style English mixtures. Both blends are pleasant but somewhat bland. My taste tells me that the Orientals play a more dominate role with this blend and the VA are less noticeable and sweet. The tobacco in the tin [jar] is imposing both visually and in aroma but the smoke is mostly mild to medium in both strength and flavor. This is mostly a one dimensional smoke as the flavors do not shift and change down through the bowl. It seems a bit moist and smokes a bit wet. 7 out of 10 stars.

Upon opening the bulk I was impressed by the darkness and the smoked smell of this tobacco. The cut is varied, with mostly ribbons and some chunky pieces that I decided to rub in order to obtain a more homogeneus blend and make the packing easier. The burning is even, cool, dry...This blend really helps you so you are free to taste it without bothering about the smoke dynamics. Despite a poor-to-medium nicotine content this mixture delivers plenty of flavour, it's really smoky and stout as it appears, with latakia dominating from the beginning to the end. The orientals are tasty too and add some deepness to an otherwise monodimensional blend, since Virginias here are a mere support (at least I couldn't taste them). All in all it isn't a very complex blend but is a wonderful value for the latakiaheads.

McClelland - No. 5125 Coyote Classic Full.

Because it's loosely pouched and there isn't a tin description I couldn't remember whether it was flavoured or straight. The smell from the pouch, however, suggests a casing of some kind. Quite a vague smell, but indicative of a flavouring. The majority of the blend has been rubbed into ribbons, I can only see a few pieces which warrant the name Broken Flake. The moisture of this pouch was good the moment I opened it.

I'd expected a smokier flavour; the Lat's notable, but it isn't bolshie. The Turkish gives a lighter/aromatic flavour, and accounts for a lot of the taste. It's a little difficult to pinpoint exactly what the topping is, but for the initial part of a bowl it gives the smoke a slightly toasty embellishment, and the flavour's only delicately floral. It falls out of favour with me, a bit, after a quarter: this is when it takes on a more of a bitter/perfumey quality. 5125 gives a good burn, and a cool smoke.

The room-note isn't the most auspicious, and the nicotine's medium.

If the flavour didn't fluctuate, but kept the slight toastiness for the whole bowl I'd highly recommend this, but as it stands I'll stick with a recommendation.

Three stars.