Smoker's Pride Cherry Cavendish

(2.17)
Smoker’s Pride Cherry Cavendish is a mild blend of quality leaf with a very pleasant cherry essence added for outstanding aroma.

Details

Brand Smoker's Pride
Blended By Lane Limited
Manufactured By Lane Limited
Blend Type Aromatic
Contents Burley, Cavendish
Flavoring Cherry
Cut Ribbon
Packaging 12 ounce bag
Country United States
Production Currently available

Profile

Strength
Mild to Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild to Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

2.17 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 18, 2013 Mild to Medium Medium Mild to Medium Pleasant
A no-nonsense cherry blend that needs to be slightly dried first and smoked slowly afterwards, or you may experience a light harsh note. You don't really get get much tobacco taste except for a very mild toasty nuttiness and earth from the burley. Has very little nicotine, and won't bite. The flavor is consistent all the way through, and it burns clean at a reasonable pace. Has a pleasant after taste and is an all day smoke, though it does lack a little depth in the cherry topping.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 27, 2017 Mild to Medium Medium Medium to Full Very Pleasant
Oct 25, 2017 This was the first pipe tobacco I tried. That was 24 years ago when some college mates and I decided to go to a local Walgreens (in the town where the college I was attending at the time) and get some pipes and tobacco. Since then I have tried many different kinds of pipe tobacco. I always keep coming back to this one.

If you dedicate a pipe, (or many, in my case) this tobacco will reward you with a sweetness and depth of cherry flavor that, in my opinion, is very satisfying, particularly if you are a cherry tobacco guy like myself who likes aromatics. I know that in the vast world of pipe tobaccos, both aromatic and otherwise, this is known as a rather "economically priced" one that does not garner as much praise as more expensively priced tobaccos. However in my humble opinion, it holds its own against any other cherry tobaccos.

The secret, at least for me, was to smoke nothing but this for quite awhile, and let your pipe get acclimated to the tobacco. I know this may be difficult for some pipe smokers who like to try many different kinds in a single pipe, but if you dedicate at least one pipe to this tobacco (and let your palate reset itself, so to speak) it will really open itself up to you. This taste is so much better than when I first tried it so many years ago using this approach.
Pipe Used: Unamed Basket Pipe
PurchasedFrom: Cigars International
Age When Smoked: Fresh, Just Purchased.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 05, 2013 Mild to Medium Medium Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
This blend has grown on me over the years. It's an entirely serviceable blend that slowly reveals its charms to the smoker as one gets to know it. This blend demands one's full attention-- slow sipping is required to avoid tongue bite as well as to reveal the complexities of its flavor and aroma. Frequent, controlled draws are needed to keep it satisfactorily aflame. Once mastered, one is rewarded with a flavor palette of brown sugar, toasted marshmallows, pastry, and just a hint of cavendish sweetness. While the overall flavoring is moderately intense at most, its character changes as the bowl goes down, and succeeds at being a rewarding, complex, and satisfying flavor experience. What little cherry there is to be found evidences itself only to the nose, with a room note not unlike that of Prince Albert with a suggestion of cherries added to the bouquet.

Not a blend to be smoked without due effort, this will bite you if smoked casually--say, while performing yard work. Once it does bite, the rest of the bowl is pretty much a lost cause. With that caveat in mind, I cautiously recommend Smoker's Pride Cherry to those seeking a moderately flavored, moderately complex blend at a bargain price. It is a much better blend than such drugstore stalwarts as Middleton's Cherry Blend, Paladin Black Cherry, and Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur. Cheers!
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 29, 2012 Medium Medium to Strong Medium to Full Pleasant to Tolerable
I must say this is a good bulk tobacco. Very good taste in my opinion. Smells great too.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 09, 2004 Mild to Medium Medium to Strong Medium to Full Pleasant to Tolerable
I am a big fan of Lane Limited Cherry flavored tobacco products. I feel that their Very Cherry bulk tobacco and their Captain Black Cherry are the quintessential cheery tobaccos that taste exactly like they smell and have a flavor more akin to a cherry lifesaver instead of Cherry Night Quil. Thus, when I found a 12 oz bag of Smoker?s Pride Cherry Pipe tobacco for only $6.49 I figured, wow what a deal! It smells like Very Cherry and since it is made by Lane Limited it will taste close, or just as good for half the price! Sadly, I was wrong. It didn?t even taste half as good actually, it was just plain bad. Instead of the cherry lifesaver taste I have come to expect from Lame Limited products I was hit with a chemical cherry flavor that reminded my of the Cherry flavored Night Quil that I hate in cough syrups and hate even more on tobacco. The tobacco has extreme bite. Bite so bad I have never experienced it on any other tobacco. Even when smoked easily and cooly in a filtered pipe, it offended terribly. I could not escape the horrid over powering chemical tasting cherry flavor or harsh bite. I did the only thing I could do that did not involve losing 6 bucks and change. I offered it to my friends to see if maybe I was a bit too harsh on it. My friend Dan agreed with me and after a pipeful gave the bag back to me. I next tried to pawn it off on my friend Matt that just loved Borkum Riff Whiskey so I figured he might actually like it. After a pipe full, he too gave the bag back to me and proceeded to smoke 5 bowls of the Borkum just to get that taste out of his mouth. It sure is a sad day when you must smoke Borkum Riff Whiskey to make anything taste better. I was finally ready just to throw it away as losing friends over 6 bucks was insane even to a tightwad like me when my friend DJ, inquired if he could have a bowl full of that great smelling tobacco in the bag. I gave the bag to him with mixed feelings and was shocked to see him enjoy it with great delight. He enjoyed it so much he asked me for the bag even offering to buy it off of me! I was more than happy to give it to him as I sure was not going to ruin my tongue again. The funny thing is this is actually all he smokes now. I either ruined his tongue or turned him on to his favorite pipe tobacco. I like to think that it was the latter but sadly, I think it just killed his taste buds. In closing, I was rather shocked as I have smoked all the other Smoker?s Pride offering and I must say rather enjoyed them. It really is a shame considering if someone picks this up as their first experience with Smoker?s Pride they will most likely throw it out after a few pipe fulls and never give any Smoker?s Pride offerings a chance or any cheap tobacco a chance again for that matter. Definitely not recommended even though I have one friend that liked it.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Aug 31, 2019 Mild Medium to Strong Mild Pleasant
Decided to finally roll the dice and order the Cherry Cavendish. The bag aroma was, for me at least, over the top Cherry. I hoped for a more mellow approach, maybe similar to Middleton's Cherry Blend. But this is, as has been said by others, cough drop strength cherry flavoring, closer to Paladin. I put it in a MM standard filter pipe. The smoke is cool and it stays lit easily. The room note was a cherry cordial/cherry cream. It did leave its ghost in the pipe. Overall, not a bad aromatic, but not what I hoped for, and I don't think I'll order more.
Pipe Used: MM Pride, Amphora 722
PurchasedFrom: Pipes and Cigars
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 24, 2007 Very Mild Very Mild Mild to Medium Very Pleasant
I like this stuff right well.

It has a very strong cherry pouch scent that's rather medicinal. Bear in mind, however, that the cherry syrup traditionally used in compounding medicines is based on the juice of the red sour cherry Prunus cerasus, a.k.a. "pie cherry," and our association of it with medicine is a learned one. I think the flavoring in this stuff is the real deal, or a very good imitation of it. May well be both, cherry juice augmented with artificial flavoring.

On initial lightup it burns hot and will bite your tongue if you're not careful. It has a bit of a harsh, bitter taste. After it burns down a bit and is retamped it settles down to a nice mild smoke. The slight residual trace of bitterness is inherent to cherry, I think, and isn't unpleasant. The aroma from the bowl and the room note are wonderful. I don't think it tastes quite as good as the black cavendish or vanilla cavendish, but the smell is enough to make me keep it around and smoke it regularly. It is heavenly!

Straight from a new pouch it burned dry in a bulldog that always gurgles a bit with BCA.

There may be better cherry aromatics around, but I'll give this one a lot of points for its price.

It seems to me that blending it half and half with the vanilla cavendish would be a natural option, and I'll try that shortly.

Yep! It makes a great blend! Neither overpowers the other. You can smell and taste both in a nicely balanced mix. Great stuff! A terrific "dessert aromatic." I love it! Be aware that any pipe you try cherry in will taste and smell like cherry for a good while if you switch back to other stuff, though.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 23, 2014 Mild Medium Mild to Medium Very Pleasant
For some reason I absolutely LOVE the smell of this tobacco and the taste is not bad at all to me either. It is kind of my go to tobacco because it is readily accessible and reasonably priced. Every time I smoke it, I get compliments on the smell of it. It can be prone to tongue bite if smoked quickly or incorrectly, but it is nothing that slowing down and enjoying the smoke can't fix. When someone asks me to recommend them a solid tobacco, I usually point them in the direction of this. It's not a sexy "wow like" tobacco choice, but I can almost guarantee that you will not regret picking up a bag of this stuff!

UPDATE: After months of trying this tobacco in a variety of pipes and smoking it in a variety of different ways I have noticed that it is still a solid tobacco, but more of a 3 star, rather than a 4 star. I definitely prefer the smokers pride black Cavendish a lot more. It smells better and tastes better, so I would encourage anyone wanting to try any of smokers pride blends to try the black Cavendish first, however for the price, pleasant aroma and mild taste both of these flavors are a solid choice. Happy smoking!
Pipe Used: Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob and $25 Briar
PurchasedFrom: The Smoke Shop, Minnesota, USA
Age When Smoked: fresh from bag and also several weeks/months old
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 21, 2013 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Very Mild Pleasant to Tolerable
I am new to pipe smoking so bear with me if you will. Had a great smell I loved it the taste was good but I had a hard time getting the full flavor of the cherry. It is relatively cheap and it comes in a 12.oz bag great bulk tobacco.

All and all I did enjoy it all around it had vary little bite to it, overall it was a great bowl.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 18, 2011 Medium Strong Mild to Medium Tolerable
The only positive thing that can be said of this stuff is that it tastes better than Paladin and it is cheaper.
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