MacBaren's Plumcake Pipe Tobacco Reviews

A medium-cut, golden Virginia-based blend with a bit of darker tobacco mixed in. It has a nice, naturally sweet pouch aroma that is almost fruity. It seems that a very light casing has been added to this blend to compliment the natural Virginia sweetness.

The tobacco's flavour is rather plain and light, but fresh, and you do taste some of that subtle fruitiness that you smell in the pouch. It starts out a little bit sharp, but appears to get smoother as it is smoked. I think that this illusion of smoothness IS an illusion as this is overall a rather sharp blend on my palate.

As you smoke a pipe full of this, the flavour becomes more concentrated and, at times, more tangy and almost citrus-like. This more concentrated taste is what produces the illusion of smoothness.

Quite delicious actually and appropriately named "Plumcake." It's a light-to-medium bodied smoke that you will want to savour slowly so as not to scorch your tongue (and even then...).