Nat Sherman - 307 Mild Cavendish pipe tobacco reviews

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Feetup	09/14/2009	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
This blend is a gem. The burly offers a nice earthy flavour and the Cavendish provides the sweetness. The aroma out of the tin is sublime. This blend is a mild aromatic so you can actually taste the tobacco. It burns even and to a nice grey ash and does not bite. Nicotine is minimal. Room note is very pleasant. Good all day smoke. Smoked in a Peterson Killarney 80S 4/5 stars
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gazpacho	07/31/2009	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
During a very recent visit to NYC, on the way back to the in-laws home from a trip to another tobacconist, I happened upon a Nat Sherman B&M (the one pictured on their website). If you get a chance, visit them. It's like a temple built for the Tobacco Gods. Being short on time and funds, I only had time for a quick look thru and a smell of their pipe house blends. What I ended up buying was 545 Broadway Nougat and (thanks to my wife) 307 Mild Cavendish. This stuff is simply marvelous! I'm still a novice smoker, and primarily prefer aromatics, but it doesn't take an educated pallate to appreciate this wonderful tobacco. Fresh out of the tin it is soaked, so give it a few days to dry out. After that it packs well, but may require an extra charring light. Keeping it lit isn't too difficult, and you can smoked it at a moderate pace without overheating the bowl. The flavor of the tobacco is there, with the topping present like a garnish, a pleasant surprise compared with other aromatics I've smoked. After a few bowls, 307 went straight to the short list of tobaccoes I keep stock of! Edit 12/15/2009 According to the NYC B&M 307 is discontinued.
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Taste Buds	06/21/2009	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I've rewritten my review of this marvelous aromatic. My first tin was good and my initial review reflected that. I ordered 9 more tins from Pipes and Cigars and was pleasantly surprised. The blend was about 50% drier out of the tin than the first and needed no drying time. There was a lot less black cavendish, which meant that the casing was cut back by a third to about 20%. I can taste the wonderful burley with the vanilla-rum casing in the background. I would rate this a Hall of Famer and the best aromatic out there. Update: I'm lowering my rating to three stars as the amount of effort in drying out this blend diminishes my enjoyment. Update 2: I've found that adding 3-4% of perique adds a lot of flavor and improves the burning qualities.
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Tsik See	05/23/2009	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I enjoy the finish of each bowl. It's my favorite, but not most preferred only by the fact that eating Prime Rib everyday taints it's own value.
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onehitter	04/20/2009	Mild to Medium	Strong	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
This is soaking wet,tin smells like vanilla or rum.The aromatic taste seems like a cedar taste or it was aged in a rum barrel but the barrel is what stands out in the smoke.After you get past the aromatics the tobacco is nice full mellow burley and a little peppery tasting on the end.Lights good Burns good No tongue bite,I like smoking this at night.
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Pipestud	03/26/2008	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant
The thing that impresses me about the long-standing, tried and true Nat Sherman line is that they always deliver quality tobacco products. #307 is right up there with the rest. It is truly a very natural Burley/Black Cavendish combination that is sure to please those who enjoy lighter, delicately cased fare. It is a very wet tobacco that I would not even try to smoke without drying considerably. It did dry out quickly (an indication of a natural casing I could not identify), and although broad cut in nature, packed quite well and burned evenly. The stronger Burley presence was delightful and reeked of quality and the enhanced cavendish added a sweetness that I think may have been vanilla. It did not burn hot but did leave a little moisture in the bottom of the bowl. Although a bit off topic, I did pick up some Nat Sherman cigars along with the #307 and they were delicious too.
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The Unknown Piper	02/12/2007	Mild	Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant

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Spike	06/14/2005	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

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DrJohnNash	06/14/2005	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
"A rich burley tempered with cashmere smooth toasted cavendish; mild, earthy and natural aroma and flavor." That's how this tobacco was first described to me and it has since become a favorite smoke. The first tobacco I ever bought was CAO's Da Vinci, and as I grow away from aromatics, the less I like Da Vinci and the more I appreciate Nat Sherman's #307 among others. Dunhill Nightcap and MacBaren's Plumcake are "daily" smokes for me, but when I require something a bit more mild, #307 is a delight. All this inspite of the fact that I have no idea what a "cashmere smooth toasted cavandish" might be. I must say, especially to the new pipe smoker, I found it much more enlightening to avoid drug store tobacco and bulk aromatics in exchange for 50g tins of the good stuff-- even if I wasn't always sure why the stuff was good in the first place. With that, this tobacco gets a B+ 'wife rating' and even my neighbors have commented on how pleasant the aroma is. And that's why I smoke a pipe-- the taste, the aroma, and the R & R. Evidentally, we're all happy. I recommend.
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emmbee	02/03/2005	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
In the tin, this stuff smells almost like Senakot, a chocolate laxative. I almost passed on it, but since I used to love Nat?s cigars so much, especially the Union and University, I decided to try a pinch from an open sample tin at Jack?s Tobacco, Milwaukee. I was not disappointed. This is one of the finest, creamiest aromatics you?ll every try. It?s a soft blend of aromatic golden and dark Cavendish. Yes, it?s definitely a heavily cased American aromatic, so stay away if you?re a hardcore English smoker. Unfortunately, the downside is that whatever this stuff is cased with leaves a coating on my tongue that?s soapy and waxy. It also tends to leave some sludgy wet dottle in the bowl. I prefer McClelland aromatics because they don?t fuzz my tongue. But for one who enjoys an occasional ice cream sundae with their tobacco, and likes the pleasing fragrance of nougat and toffee ala McClelland Best of Show, you will enjoy this from time to time. Three and a half of five stars
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NEWMAN	12/30/2004	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant
Although I normally smoke VA or VA/Perique flakes, this is one of the better aromatics that I've recently tried. The dark brown to jet black wide ribbons were too moist from the tin and smoked wet. They stained the white tin liner dark brown in many areas. They smelled very sweet ~ vanilla from the tin but this decreased with several days of drying and resulted in a better smoke with much less condensation. With the drying the smoking, lighting and packing properties also improved to the point that I could recommend your trial. The nutty Burley is nicely balanced with the cased Balck Cavendish. However, this blend is very mild and I would only choose it more for the benefit of the room aroma on the few occasions that I can smoke socially. 307 is a giant step in quality above the drug store aromatics.
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Rabbi Piper	04/29/2004	Mild to Medium	Medium	Full	Pleasant
Though a devotee of the English blends, here I am ready to wholeheartedly declare: a damn fine tobacco. This is a fascinating blend that looks quite nice in the tin. It posesses a good, even mix of dark shades of brown and black. Like most tinned tobaccos, this one needs some drying. I would reccomend emptying and spreading it out onto a sheet of paper for a day or so. On the nose, it has a very pleasent and classic toasted cavedish odor. However, when smoking it I detected another level of natural sweetness coming from the cavendish. I detect some mild vanilla casings in the burley and maybe something else, something with an almost red-wine-like quality that I cannot nail down- but it is absolutley spectacular. This Sherman packs, lights, and burns very nicely. It produces some sumptuos, soft, velvety clouds of smoke that fill the room with an odor that is very true to its unsmoked tin aroma. During the entire smoke it retained its excellent burning properties but started getting very wet toward the end. The flavor of this tobacco is great thanks to its immaculate blending. It is poignant,rich,delicious and with an underlying natural tobacco flavor that is well rounded by the slight casing. The toasted cavendish is the key here. From the start, it works to sublty mesh all of the flavors perfectly. Unlike many tobaccos, the effect on the palate is very true to the odor it has in the tin. This is also true for its room aroma. If you do not smoke a pipe, then the Sherman 307 is a really good reason to start. Just be sure to dry it out some first. - The Rabbi
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Tantric	08/08/2003	Very Mild	Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant
This is a very fine tobacco, in that smokey sweet tradition of American Cavendish aromatics. It is velvety smooth, has a relatively slow burning rate, rather moist and fresh, producing a mellow and welcoming room aroma. The craftsmanship of this blend is notable and the components used are of such nature, that the after taste does not linger on the pipe. Basically a Burley blend with toasted Black Cavendish, the quality of the leaf used and the saucing of the Cavendish (a kind of vanilla taste, without being particularly pungent) give this blend a peculiar depth. Not extremely sweet or enervating, it leads to a peaceful and friendly smoke, that most people seem to enjoy. More or less on the same lines of vanilla- aromatic tobaccos, the benevolence with which this tobacco has been blended, set it aside in terms of quality and sobriety. Think of this as a high quality version of Captain Black white label, less than half as sweet and far more smooth. Relaxing.
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