Borkum Riff Admiral's Flake Vanilla

(3.36)
Borkum Riff Admiral's Flake Vanilla is a pressed tobacco with an attractive colour and aroma, made from the choicest raw tobaccos, a premium quality refined mix of dark Kentucky and burley tobacco. The mild vanilla flavour produces a tobacco with an elegant, soft body and a long finish.

Details

Brand Borkum Riff
Blended By Swedish Match
Manufactured By  
Blend Type Aromatic
Contents Black Cavendish, Burley, Virginia
Flavoring Vanilla
Cut Flake
Packaging 50 grams tin
Country Sweden
Production

Profile

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

Average Rating

3.36 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
mo
Apr 23, 2012 Medium Medium Medium to Full Tolerable
Borkum Riff/Vanilla/Cavendish/Burley/Aromatic. Who in their right mind would buy this???

There is no way in HELL i would have paid for this tobacco. In fact i would have easily gone through my entire life without ever trying it. Were it not for the Helderberg Pipesmokers Guild and for the local distributor who has generously donated several tins to our tobacco bar.

To be honest, i would not have tried it were it not for Mr Pieter Claasen who encouraged me to load my pipe that night.

This is the Vanilla blend all the others want to be. It tastes of faint Vanilla. It has some VitN, does not bite, stays composed till the bottom of the bowl and smokes relatively dry.

The taste is simply DELICIOUS.

You gotta try it.

Mo,South Africa
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 23, 2007 Medium Mild to Medium Medium Pleasant
I came across this blend at a tobacconist never visited in the past. This elegant small blue rectangular tin is placed near my belowed Capstan blue. I asked him what is that ? He passed the tin on my hands, I looked at it and said "Oh, Borkum Riff ... sorry, I don't moke aromatics" but kept the tin, turned it on the side and read "Made in Denmark" (good!) and then looked the small label on the back of the tin and read "Selected premium dark Kentucky, cool-smoking Burley and bright Virginia tobaccos specially blended to give a distinguished taste of luxurious fragrant vanilla" (no Black Cavendish, good!). So I decided to give it a try. I was so curious to realize if I was right or wrong, that I opened the tin right after and 1) the tin aroma is spicey vanilla but not at all a heavy aromatic 2) the inner fold is very much similar to McB's Navy Flake, golden foil with printed "Borkum Riff Admiral's Flake" 3) the flakes are a wonderful mix of light and dark tobaccos, they say to both my eye and finger this is very good quality tobacco. Yes, Smoking-Rob, I agree with you that McB may be the producer of this blend. The smoke is excellent, mellow and creamy, a damn good medium blend for everyday. No Black Cavendish in this blend, Kentucky gives some body and strength, and tickles the nose here and there. Vanilla does not cover anything, it just adds some sweetness, this smoke is tobacco. Flakes are not wet. Just fold one or two flakes (one is enough for the small straight oval sand blasted Savinelli De Luxe I'm now smoking), relight and it smokes dry to the bottom with no gurgle, leaving medium grey ash and no goopy at all. All that being said, I highly recommend this blend. You should dedicate it some of your pipes - or avoid those committed to english mixtures - since it delivers them some vanilla flavour.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 23, 2006 Medium to Strong Mild Medium to Full Pleasant to Tolerable
A new flake from Borkum Riff that also has a Cherry variety. The flakes are very high quality tobacco and very well and uniform pressed and wrapped in a beautiful golden foil on paper wrapper. I would classify this as quite a strong smoke, especially in the nicotine department, with a heavy accent on Burley. The vanilla flavouring is quite subdued and not half as present as for instance in Mac Baren's vanilla flake. Mac Baren may well have produced this flake though. Not overtly sweet either. The first half of the bowl is quite mellow but at half bowl the typical Borkum Riff Burley heaviness starts to intrude and that is when the going gets tough. Try it by all means if you like a good whack over the head, it will satisfy for sure but can become overbearing in the end.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 24, 2015 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Very Pleasant
This is a wonderful blend of pipe tobacco. I first found this in Egypt at the airport. I bought two tins. I smoked both in just a few days. It took a while until I found more. I bought the entire stock. I have about 100 tins of this stuff and I do guard it. I smoke it on thanksgiving and christmas. SMELL is wonderful. TASTE is one of those you will not forget.
Pipe Used: Dunhill, Peterson, Savinelli, Comoy
PurchasedFrom: London England
Age When Smoked: Tin - 5 years
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 05, 2016 Mild Mild Mild Very Pleasant
This, for what it is, is excellent. Nice Vanilla notes with ever puff, and the leaf is a cut above what one would expect. I've always enjoyed the Borkum Riff blends but have had a problem with heat. I think the Burley in the Admiral's Flake series is much higher on the ladder and provided a coolness with true tobacco taste that I enjoyed. A blend that I will eventually finish the tin of, but am in no rush.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 06, 2013 Mild to Medium Mild Mild to Medium Very Pleasant
Wesleys Tobacconists in Jburg, South Africa carry this (unless Mo has purchased it all - sounds like he cracked a fat at first puff !)

5 tins just arrived - wonderful stuff !!!
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TEO
Dec 05, 2015 Mild to Medium Very Mild Medium Pleasant
An interesting surprise, this a really odd flake!

Big Kentucky builds the foundation of this aromatic, and it's a pleasant surprise if you compare it to most of aromatic Mixtures and flakes on the market. This keeps away the flake from that citric, bitey feelings some virginia aromatics show and it retains a real tobacco taste.

It has the right amount of Nicotine and soft flavoring to be an odd allday blend.

The Flakes are fairly dark and show sugar crystals on the surface, a good moisture since the first bowl, very tasty and slow burning if not rubbed. The aroma out of the tin reminds of chocolate, anisette and honey.

Ages Perfectly in the jar after 5 years, refining some Kentucky bitter accent.

Vanilla is not Overwhelming and the smoke is creamy, sweet but not too sweet and dry to the bottom of the bowl.

Recommended to anyone.
Pipe Used: Savinelli Oscar, Some Brebbia
Age When Smoked: 5+
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Nov 08, 2013 Medium to Strong Medium Medium Pleasant
this is difficult because in my 'normal'sized pipes it has a chemical flavour that I find a little off-putting.HOWEVER , I have a v.large Dunhill 'Hungarian' that takes two flakes ,lasts about an hour and tastes sensational. I am a little unsteady at the end,but I don't regard the tobacco as over strong as the nic is un- noticeable in a smaller pipe.I have given 3 stars, you be the judge. What's the deal with Cavendish ? One description above says yes and the other says no. One reviewer says yes ,another says no.Anyway Cavendish method sounds very much like Flake method to me apart from cut. After all this rambling ,I've just ordered four more from Sturks.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 20, 2011 Mild to Medium Mild Mild Pleasant
The only tobacco of this brand I've tried and it is not shabby. Upon opening the tin there is a rich christmas cake/chocolate/vanilla scent. Light it up and the vanilla is very mild but to my palate a chocolate taste develops and lingers in the background. The room note is a bit like Ovaltine and rather pleasant to me at least. The flake burns rather quickly though although not hot and I didn't get any 'tongue bite'. Recommended + +.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 19, 2008 Mild to Medium Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant
try this one i would say,,this is the only blend i likes btn all this brand,,burns perfect burlyes n virginia r there and homogenised by the cavendish,,tamping is needed but it goes smoothly,,prefered to be rubbed out and give the tin a chance it needs to breath for a while before smoking,,would consider buying another tin
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