McClelland Dominican Glory

I took a 100g tin of this blend to my pipe club meeting a few months ago. About a dozen veteran puffers were excited to sample it for the first time; a pipe blend made of cigar leaf. They were not disappointed. Exceptional and unusual flavor here, and the consensus was that it would probably make for a fine,rich cigar if rolled up.

If you enjoy Dominican cigars and pipes filled with rich, ribbon cut Virginia, get the best of both worlds and try this one!

The aged Dominican cigar leaf provides floralness, herbs, vegetation, leather, earth, cedar, wood, moderately creamy, light sourness, tangy citrus, light coffee, nuts, pepper, grass/hay, and cocoa as the lead component. The matured Virginia offers tart and tangy citrus, some tangy dried dark fruit, earth, wood, light bread and some grass as a secondary player. The strength and nic-hit are a couple of steps past the center of mild to medium. The taste almost reaches the medium mark. Won’t bite, but has plenty of rough edges, and a few harsh notes, particularly if you puff beyond a moderate rate. Burns clean and a tad warm at a reasonable pace with a very consistent, mildly creamy, tangy sweet, rugged cigar flavor that translates to the lingering after taste, and stronger room note. Lacks a little depth and body as well as sporting a light bitterness in the last quarter of the smoke. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires am average number of relights. Unless you are an experienced cigar smoker, I would not classify this as an all day smoke. Maybe not even if you are.

-JimInks

Whatever McClelland's has to offer has come up short in this blend. I don't like cigars as it is, but the least they could have done was add some good Virginia leaf, lord knows they have enough of it, as opposed to whatevet flat-tasting, orange detritis they chose as a base for Dominican Glory. I will say that there were a few times, though I don't know how I managed, that I woud get a whiff of that smokey Virginia tang that has keped me loyal to McClelland's for years. The two or three times that I experienced this, however were not enpugh to justify my having to pay for it.

Rgards,

A. Morley Jaques

The word that kept coming to mind with this one is: soft.

There is a cigar influence in the flavor that is there, it's just that there isn't enough flavor for me.

It certainly did smoke cool though.

Room note approval rating from the wife was one of the lowest to date. (and she's a pipesmoker too)

Short choppy cuts of light chocolate with a very distinctive cigar aroma. But not a mouthwatering rich brown cigar like the color in the tin, but more like one of those green claros. But that's what the ad copy says and off I went. I'm not much of a cigar buff anymore but I do enjoy one on occasion.

Disastrous is the best word I can use for this. Perhaps that was due to my own misunderstanding but I was thinking this was going to be one of McClellands incomparable Virginias but with a cigar leaf overtone. Yes, there was Virginia tobacco in here but it tasted strictly bottom shelf. With the wealth of high quality Virginia in the McClellands vaults, I was surprised at how dull and flavorless this batch was. The cigar leaf tasted cigar-y to be sure but along with being mild was kind of harsh and King Edwardian ( as with their cigars, more paper than tobacco). It was all very cheap tasting and not refined like most McClelland blends. Up till now, Holiday Spirit was the only McC total failure in my book. I'd rather smoke an entire tin of that one than another single bowl of this. I made it thru only 4 bowls, with varying degrees of moisture content. Nothing saves this from a single star. Makes me definitely wary of the Maduro version and I may hold off on that one for awhile.

I am wrestling with this one. I am finding it hard to review a pipe tobacco that smells like a cigar, tastes like a cigar, has the room note of a cigar, yet smokes in a pipe. And all of the above not a very good cigar.

It is an all brown rough cut tobacco, it is rather mild and non biting, but if I am going to smoke a cigar, I think I will smoke a cigar and a good one. If you favor low end cigars one might like this one. It has a cigar flavor as one might expect, it packs easy and burns easy in the pipe, it burns into cigar colored grey ash all the way down and rather dry so it has that going for it, I just did not really enjoy this blend in my pipe. I have had some good blends with cigar leaf in them and I did enjoy them, but I still felt that I was smoking a pipe, the cigar leaf added character and flavor to the blend. This just tastes like a low end cigar and leaves the room smelling like a cheap cigar. Thus I cannot rate this high either as a pipe blend or even as a decent cigar.

I mistakenly bought this Dominican Glory thinking I had ordered the Dominican Glory Maduro. Nonetheless, this is a pretty decent, mild smoking mixture with just the slightest “twang” from the cigar leaf. Had I not known from the description that this contained cigar leaf I would have thought that slight twang was from a pinch of Perique. Although I’ve enjoyed smoking this blend me thinks it misses its mark for its cigar-leaf tobacco genre/classification. As such, I think it’s only worthy of 3 stars. Otherwise, it’s really quite a mild & naturally delicious treat. Despite McC now going out of business I was able to procure a tin of the Dominican Glory Maduro which reportedly has more cigar leaf. Stay tuned for an upcoming review on that one.

A McClelland disaster!

Another victory in missing the mark. A base of cigar leaf ribbon seasoned with small broken virginia flake with quite a lot of humicant added. Not much flavor comes through, smokes somewhat wet and the virginia flake is so moist that it effectively will not burn. I think I know what they are trying to do, cigar filler tobacco types are actually very bland and dry by nature. Anyone who has experimented with smoking cigar leaf in a pipe has found out. By adding a humicant it makes the cigar leaf more pliable to work with(from being to brittle) and to remove the "dry Bite." But the result is a blend of no refinement and lack of character. This really needs to be reconceptualized for it to be a worthy product.

-Not recommended

What a disappointment Dominician Glory is!. I am a big cigar fan (yeah, I like little cigars, too) and thought that this might be ticket for those times when a quick cigar fix was in order.

Wrong!!!. This stuff seems to bring the worst of the two worlds together. The dominican is flat and bitter, w/o the compensating cigariness. The virginias seemed out of place and just adds a bite that good cigars never seem to have. Cigars are supposed to have a bitter edge but also very rich, full body that DG misses by a mile.

This blend reminds me of really cheap machine-rolled cigars of the drug-store variety. If that is your bent, then you may like this stuff. If, however, you like good hearty long-filler, hand-made Central American cigars, spend your money on those instead.

Oh, yeah, I can't believe that the maduro variety would be much of an improvement.

The Cigar leaf and Virginias are well noted and distinguished.

Good for People that enjoy non-aromatic pure and strong tobaccos.

Is related to Purple Cow, but in my personal oppinion, this is much better.