Warped: Cloud Hopper 2oz Pipe Tobacco
Product Number: 003-851-0003
Known for their boutique, Cuban-style cigars, Warped is curated and supervised by founder Kyle Gellis, an entrepreneur and lover of all things bespoke and luxurious. He has a taste for finery and approaches his ventures with rigorous standards of perfection that are applied to the slightest of subtleties. Such a mindset translated naturally when Warped expanded into pipe tobaccos in 2019, seeing Kyle Gellis collaborate with Cornell & Diehl's Jeremy Reeves to create nuanced blends, marked by quality components and intriguing flavor profiles that align with Warped's "be exclusively different" mantra.
Cloud Hopper, another creation by Gellis and Reeves, now joins Warped's selection of pipe tobaccos as a regular production blend. It takes its name from Warped's Cloud Hopper cigars, which Kyle made with his brother to celebrate their shared love for travel. Cloud Hopper pipe tobacco features AA-grade Dominican Criollo cigar leaf (the same varietal used in The Haunting), married to traditional Italian air-cured tobaccos, yellow and red Virginias, and Perique pressed and cut into flakes. The blend transports pipesmokers to an adventurous flavor profile of complex notes of earth, spice, and citrus, while hints of cream and coffee offer comfort along the road. It's a mixture free of added flavors, meant to showcase the natural profile of quality tobaccos.
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- Components: Virginia, Perique, Cigar
- Family: Virginia
- Cut: Flake
The main reason I don't like it much is that it's not consistent and balanced enough. It doesn't taste like Virginia with some darker cigar tones. Neither it tastes like a cigar with some rounding, higher and sweeter tones of Virginia. Not at all. What it does taste is both Virginia and Cigar at the same time, if you know what I mean. It is almost like literally smoking a pipe with pure Virginia and a pipe with cut cigar leaf (or normal cigar) at the same time. What I mean is there's too much of both components, and they don't actually intersect much or play together, but rather interfering and making different jobs in parallel, kinda competing with each other instead of complimenting and working as allies on one common goal. There are at least two octaves in between these players, Virginia playing really high, and Cigar - very low notes, with the middle missing.
I think such blends can be consistent only with very small amounts of one of the components: like 95% Virginia (with or withour Perique), plus 5% cigar, or 95% cigar and 5% Virginia. Or maybe around 10 percent. In this way you'll get the taste of main tobacco rounded with other, but not interfering. Aging may also round and bring them closer.
It's different story with Burley, because, though Burley is a cigar relative, it is not two octaves, but maybe one octave different from Virginia, sometimes even less, so you can mix them in any amounts and get good consistency.
So, the blend is highly advisible to those who like experiments and smth new, maybe also to Cigar and Virginia lovers (you have to love both of them!), but probably not for anyone else....Read More