Puff Daddy
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For constantly raving about Mcclellands 2000 Fragrant Matured cake. I tried it, ended up buying a half pound, will probably put up a few pounds of this stuff. Presently smoking some in a Peterson Molly Malone bent brandy. Starts off with a sweet maple/toffee kind of flavor over a zesty Mcclelland virginia base. Before too long it becomes a really nice ginnyweed smoke with the sweetness and flavor moving well back into the background and producing some very well balanced depth. This stuff is great! A virginia cake/broken flake that is enhanced by it's topping rather than a topping that happens to be put on some marginal tobacco.
I rank this right up with GH & co Black and Brown, which is also a damned good tobacco that has a nice topping added to it.
As an aside, I also got in some Mcclelland 5120 fragrant virginia, which is a different animal from FM 2000. This stuff is barely topped (I detect a very faint sweetness that doesn't seem to come from the component tobaccos) and appears to be mainly 5100 Red Cake mixed with 5105 Stoved Black Virginia. This is a smokier tobacco (from the stoved black virginia) and is more simple and straightforward, but is a very fine and enjoyable smoke. Will be interesting to see how this matures with some jar time.
I rank this right up with GH & co Black and Brown, which is also a damned good tobacco that has a nice topping added to it.
As an aside, I also got in some Mcclelland 5120 fragrant virginia, which is a different animal from FM 2000. This stuff is barely topped (I detect a very faint sweetness that doesn't seem to come from the component tobaccos) and appears to be mainly 5100 Red Cake mixed with 5105 Stoved Black Virginia. This is a smokier tobacco (from the stoved black virginia) and is more simple and straightforward, but is a very fine and enjoyable smoke. Will be interesting to see how this matures with some jar time.