Super Value Black Cavendish

(2.00)
Black Cavendish is a pleasant medium-strength blend of slowly-steamed Black Cavendish tobaccos with a lovely aroma, one that can be smoked all day.
Notes: Dream Castle/Super Value pipe tobaccos are manufactured by Sutliff Tobacco Company.

Details

Brand Super Value
Blended By Sutliff Tobacco Company
Manufactured By Dream Castle
Blend Type Aromatic
Contents Black Cavendish
Flavoring Fruit / Citrus, Vanilla
Cut Ribbon
Packaging 12-oz. Bag, 1.5-oz. Pouch
Country United States
Production Currently available

Profile

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

Average Rating

2.00 / 4
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Reviews

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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 25, 2015 Very Mild Medium Mild Very Pleasant
Vanilla is the star, and is the only thing you'll notice aside a slight fruit note. No tobacco taste. The vanilla isn't strong, which may appeal to some, but I found it a little thin and at times, a little dull. Has no nicotine to speak of. Won't bite or get harsh. Needs a lot of dry time and relights. Leaves moisture, and some dottle in your bowl. Has a decent, short lived after taste.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 02, 2009 Very Mild Medium Very Mild Pleasant
Another freebie with a tobacco order. If they keep sending it, I'll keep smoking it. I guess.

Compared to Lane's BCA, this one is wetter, softer and less flavorful. The previous poster mentioned that this should be dried out first. Good advice, but he must have used the microwave because I let this air out for 2 days straight, checking it periodically, and it was still wringing wet. There's a reason the packet doesn't need to be sealed to keep the tobacco "fresh" (read: wet). It produced a goopy heel and tasted of chemically-enhanced "sorta-tobacco". Smelled nice, though.

If you enjoy this kind of flavor, spring for Lane's BCA. It's not that much more expensive and it's better quality by an order of magnitude. This one won't even do in a pinch.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 09, 2015 Extremely Mild Very Strong Very Mild Pleasant to Tolerable
I rate this tobacco a 3 out of 10.

I have mixed feeling about this blend as it was one of the very first blends I bought when I started smoking. I like it enough that I took the plunge into making pipe smoking a consistent hobby, so in that respect I can recommend the blend, but in all honesty I havn't smoked it since that first pouch I bought because I have now found so many tobaccos that are MUCH better tasting and of MUCH higher quality than this one.

If I remember correctly, the taste was ok, but it left a nasty chemical fim and aftertaste that is common in low quality flavored tobaccos. I don't recommend this blend if you have access to a superior cavendish like Lane BCA or Peter Stokkebye Black Dansk, but if you are in a pinch and have to buy something from a gas station or cigarette shop to tide you over, this one may be as good a choice as any other, and probably better than most that you will find in that venue.

One thing I have learned from reading reviews on this site is that tobacco tastes are very subjective and just because a lot of other people like (or DON'T like) a blend does not necessarily mean it will be one that I personally enjoy...so for that reason I encourage you to please take these reviews and ratings with a grain of salt.
PurchasedFrom: a cigarette store
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Nov 20, 2007 Mild Medium Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
Soft, sweet,somewhat fruity, and biteless. Not too bad for a budget black Cavendish.

But it's not too good either. You would do well to save your pennies and order some Lane BCA online.

Barring that, any tobacconist that sells pipe tobacco will have several blends better than this in his jars...
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 10, 2019 Mild Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
Super Value - Black Cavendish.

For my 'Aromatic Sunday' I selected this. Hmmmm, not great!

The blend's very dark in colour, and coarse cut. The nose is quite sweet, and the moisture looked good.

If it weren't for the citrus the smoke would be nice for a relaxing afternoon. Although the vanilla leads, there's just enough sourness and causticity from the citrus element to reduce my liking for it. The tobacco taste is nothing extraordinary: heavy black Cavendish; not much to say regarding the leaf! On the positive side it burns nicely, cool and steady, causing no tongue bite.

Nicotine: quite light. Room-note: not good.

Super Value Black Cavendish? Even though the vanilla has a nice flavour the citrus causes just enough pandemonium to make this warrant one star:

Not recommended.
Pipe Used: Peterson 'Patrick's Day 2014 #03
PurchasedFrom: TobaccoPipes.com
Age When Smoked: Three weeks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 19, 2010 Mild Medium Very Mild Pleasant to Tolerable
I am loving my black cavendish tobaccos so decided to give this one a shot. Not much of a pouch note, it is a bit on the wet side but not horribly so. It will leave goop in the bowl btw. It stays lit well enough but there really isn't much tobacco flavor here, instead I get a particular sour taste, not horrible mind you, just odd. I have encountered this in other black cavendish tobaccos, usually just once in a while and normally in a "lump" of tobacco. I tend to break them up when packing a pipe now but with this tobacco it did not matter. I have heard that many of these are fermented tobacco and if that is the case, that is exactly what I am tasting. That particular sour bite of sauerkraut, its very odd. Anyways not a big fan of this, not even at the low low price it is sold at. This was only a dollar cheaper than the Smokers Pride Black Cavendish and that extra buck was no savings at all. Spend the extra buck on Smokers Pride or save your pennies and buy some really good black cavendish, the Super Value product is just bad. Sorry forgot, on the upside there is no bite at all with this product, even with heavy pulls.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
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Nov 21, 2007 Very Mild Mild Very Mild Pleasant to Tolerable
Not a very good smoke. I could not make myself smoke more than a quater of the bag. It was making bad stains on my teeth and really gooped up the pipe I tried it in. Very wet smoking in a bad way.

Maybe if it was the only thing I could I'd smoke it very seldom. Milk and honey from pipesandcigars.com is a much better example of a good black cavandish blend for only a few bucks more.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 12, 2021 Extremely Mild None Detected Extremely Mild (Flat) Very Pleasant
This is an OK tobacco for what it is. I don't know if it has any flavoring added or not. It's so mild, but offers just a smidgen of vanilla. It is sweet on the front of the tongue. I like to add this to burley blend's like Velvet, etc. from time to time. Also the S.Value Natural is a good tobacco to blend it in for a surprisingly good "OTC" ish mild smoke. I also like it with the S.Pride Whiskey as a blend, and as well as Cherry. Well, I suppose I almost always use this B.C to blend. It does work on it's on, but only slow in a tiny tapered bowl briar. Like many OTC burleys do. My bag came sufficiently dried, so that was a plus. The cut can be described as between oatmeal, and saw mill floor sweepings. Roomnote is "like a cookie" said the boss, when I do smoke it by itself.

Pipe Used: many
PurchasedFrom: JR's, various
Age When Smoked: new
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 16, 2019 Mild Mild Mild Very Pleasant
As a Black Cav. fan I was alarmed and intrigued when I saw this giant bag of tobacco at the local shop...eventually, curiosity got the best of this cat and I had to buy a bag.

The tobacco comes a bit wet, but nothing 5-10 minutes of drying time can't fix. The cut is not as pretty as Capt. Black Dark or BCA but it loads up just fine and lighted up easily.

The flavor is not quite as strong as the two mentioned above but absolutely is delightful in its own right for someone seeking a mild, sweet smoke. I think any black cav fan should have some of this around the house!
Pipe Used: Cobs
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 18, 2019 Mild Mild Mild Very Pleasant
This has to have some drying time because it is WET. After drying a bit, it does load and light fairly easily. The vanilla flavor is noticeable but not overdone. This is a nice, mild blend that would make a good intro blend or a good mixer to ease the strength of more powerful tobaccos.
Pipe Used: Various
Age When Smoked: Fresh
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