Post #379 re: pipe blends that taste like a cigar!

[Blackhorse]

Well, pipe blends are pipe blends and cigars are cigars and no matter how much Maduro or whatever you dump into a blend it still doesn't taste like a cigar! It just adds a unique 'roundness' to a blend, more or less. Right? Yeah, I thought so too...until this morning.

Of course you have to ask the proper questions to get the right answers. Here, the question could well be, "Which cigar?".

So I've recently been smoking Rum Twist, Brown (Happy) Bogie and Dark Flake. This morning I'm out in my shop, having grabbed a nice fat stogie instead of my usual pipe...just on a whim. It's a super aged Cain Maduro about 6 X 54 or 56. You know, the kind that cave men are pictured carryin' over their shoulders? I clip it and it seems hard and pretty dry, but then it did when it was new as well. I light it and it takes off smoothly and evenly. And BAM! There's this huge flavor of Dark Flake! I might as well have been standing there with a pipe stuffed to the gills with Gawith Dark Flake goodness! Amazing!

I've seen the phrase 'cigar-like flavor notes' in more than a few reviews of dark Gawith blends, but never really agreed with 'em, til now that is. And it gave the same profile through the duration as Dark Flake does as if progresses down the bowl.

So, even if there's only ONE match out there, that's one!

 

[lowflyingpenguin]

I get the same "feel"from Peterson's Irish Flake

 

[Blackhorse]

Must be the 'Dark Fired'. But I hafta say that no other blend with a Dark Fired KY component is as close...and it's just the Cain Maduro on the cigar side.

But now I'll need to do more experimenting! Maybe LOTS more!   8)

 

[taharris]

Semois tasts like a Sancho Panza cigar.

 

[Blackhorse]

Ohh! Their Caballero is one if my favorites!

 

[Anonymous]

Revor Plug, also made by G&H, produces some lovely cigar like notes. As someone else said, it's the dark fired Kentucky. I agree that G&H do this better than anyone.

 

[flyguy]

I think C&D Burley Flake #3 is cigarish even though it doesn't contain any cigar leaf.

 

[Blackhorse]

Yeah, there are a number of blends that evidence cigar-like notes...as has been noted. But let's don't go haring off into the 'cigar-like' woods. I mean, there are so many blends and potential flavors out there and so many different cigars there's certainly going to be a bit if overlap on occasion.

What I'm talking about is like an exact match! That's the rarity. To me, that Cain Maduro was totally an exactly identical smoking experience to a generic bowl of Dark Flake Unscented.

In over 40 years of smoking both pipes and cigars it's the first time it's happened for me.

 

[the rev]

I love Dark Flake, and this is probably why. Thanks for pointing that out Blackhorse

rev

 

[Blackhorse]

Yeah...now all ya gotta do is find those Cain Maduro stogies! I have no idea if they even do 'em any more. I still have maybe a half dozen...aged like 5 years.

Hey, found 'em at CI. I guess the one I had was the Double Toro (6x60) Maduro. When they first came out the Habano was the darling and the Maduro not so much. But I gotta say that the Maddie sure has aged well!

http://www.cigarsinternational.com/cigars/10802/cain-by-oliva/