Samuel Gawith - Black Cherry pipe tobacco reviews

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Doctor Max	04/28/2013	Mild	Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant
I have to admit I did not make much of this tobacco at first. Despite a very strong (but nice) tin note of cooked cherries, I could not elicit any sort of flavour out of it. I put it down to the excessive humidity level in the newly opened tin; something that seems to be common for all SG tobaccos. When I smoked this again a few weeks after opening the tin I had a real surprise. Very nice sweet, slightly sour, old fashioned cherry candy flavoured smoke billowed out of the pipe! This is now easily my favourite aromatic, in fact the only true aromatic I can even bear to smoke. Room note is a nice slightly woody, slightly burnt cherry and chocolate tinted smoke that is even hard to detect as smoking aroma. To top it off, easy to pack and burns from char to heel without problems (ones dried out properly). All in all an excellent tobacco from SG, who can be a bit hit and miss in my experience.
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FlatCapMatt	02/06/2013	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Seemed really bland when I smoked it. I couldn't taste much. I'd actually rather smoke Borkum Riff's Cherry Cavendish when I feel like a cherry tobacco.
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Backer211b	01/17/2013	Mild	Very Strong	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
One of the best aromatic for cherry-lovers.
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TomekKGG	11/09/2012	Mild	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Tolerable

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Cragganmore	09/03/2012	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
As a novice pipesmoker with an initial (although admittedly fading) interest primarily in aromatics this offering from Samuel Gawith was the first aromatic to deliver taste that somewhat matched the room and tin note. It burns nice and evenly but in my experience benefits greatly from some drying as it is fairly moist. The room note is a real crowd pleaser and lets me get away with smoking in the presence of nonsmokers. As far as taste goes I find the distinct cherry taste doesn't really appear until after the bowl is finished. Prior to that I mostly get a plum/fig-like taste along with the cavendish. Also, at the start of my session I get a acrid, harsh taste which disappears about 1/3 into the bowl. This may be due to user error but I have tried my best to eliminate any possible variables that may cause it, such as smoking it in different pipes, with a beard and without, pantsless and humming, during a full moon and whilst tapping my fingers etc. I cannot for the life of me get rid of the initial taste... Having said that I find it a thoroughly enjoyable smoke but it is best smoked as a dessert-smoke as the cherry taste that settles in your mouth is sure to hang around for several hours. Which isn't such a bad thing, all things considered... // Edit: I let a bowl full of Black Cherry sit out 'til it got absolutely bonedry and I'm happy to say that the issue with the strange initial taste is now gone. I had feared that packing a brittle and dry tobacco would be a nightmare but it actually performed flawlessly with no relighting issues and a cool 1+ hr burn. With that in mind I've decided to bump up my recommendation another notch.
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Taipanmamba	04/13/2011	Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
This is a lovely aromatic . As mentioned in another review the tin art is uninspiring . On opening the tin I was surprised at the lack of cherry aroma - not sure if this was just my tin . The tobacco is dark and very moist out of the tin - too wet to smoke I found . The initial few bowls did not inspire me- although the room note is fantastic and will convert even the harshest anti smoking zealot . As the tin dried out over 4 weeks so the real qualities of this tobacco revealed themselves. This is a perfect after dinner "pudding smoke". Sweet and smooth and aromatic in the best sense of the word. There is little complexity here but then it isn't trying to be complex. It gives no tongue bite and leaves a delicious sweet texture in the mouth. Whilst I wont be stockpiling this I will certainly return to it at some point in the future.
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mr_beard	02/10/2011	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant

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eamonclever	01/19/2011	Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
i have to confess, I am not a passionate aro smoker, but sometimes I try some of them, even though it might be just one bowl. This time I managed to smoke a tin - the coarse cut makes the difference I guess - the pipes I used kept a cool and delicious smoke, down the entire bowl. The cavendish was easy to smoke the cherry aroma became a bit lighter then out of the tin within the process of smoking. But there was no delight for me. A good smoke while you work or read, good amount of nicotine in every kind of bowl as well. A good change of pace though, but not a rotation tobacco. Good quality of tobacco. But not my world.
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renwardhoop	01/03/2011	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Unnoticeable
Tasty tin aroma, but not the nose bouquet I expected. The tobacco is soft and moist and very, very black. Mulltiple relights needed. Not as ghastly as the artificially flavoured Celtic Talisman which must be a close relative. Very slight room note. No comment passed by Mrs RH. I've smoked better and stronger cherry blends and I guess this one is somewhere in between. Will not be joining the euphoria of earlier reviewers, but will finish the tin.
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ELF	02/21/2010	Medium to Strong	Mild to Medium	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
Definitely one of the FINEST AROMATICS,I've ever had in my pipe.A Virginian-Puritan at heart;a tobacco blender at my Winnipeg pipe shop,filled my bowl(out of his tin)***Just because this is an"Aromatic"don't be fooled;this weed packs a punch.Smooth to smoke,but"High Nicotine" I'm not sure of what leaf Gawith starts out with to make this cavendish style...I have a feel'g it is either orange or red virginian...air cured partially+then steam press it with actual Cherries.....FANTASTIC.....Even You Virginian-Puritans' should take this little Red Porsche for a spin; you may be Pleasantly surprised. :+)
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meerkat	02/12/2010	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant
I like Black Forest gateaux but I don't eat it at every meal. I enjoy a good aromatic but I can't smoke them everyday but when I'm in the mood for a heavy-sweet smoke with a reasonable nicotine content this is my go to choice. It is an out and out aromatic (no subtle "hint-of-cherries" here) but, like a fresh, hand made, sticky cake from an excellent baker, this is a high quality guilty pleasure. The base Black Cavendish tobacco is of good quality and the topping tastes natural, not chemical. The allusion to cakes is deliberate as I think it's probably best not to think of the flavour in terms of fresh cherries, instead I would liken it to cherry jam (jelly, to our American friends) or a rich dessert. Straight from the tin it has a very high humidity. I believe this is to keep it alive through long aging periods but it does have the side effect of making it bite like an angry ferret until you dry it out. Leaving the lid off the tin and mixing the contents regularly to achieve a uniform result is my prefered method but I have known people bake it in a low oven, spread it in a thin layer over a sheet of kitchen roll or leaving it packed in the pipe and sat on the radiator for a while. Why not devise your own treatment. The most bizarre wins a tickle on the toes from a tiny ptarmigan (Reviewer takes no responsibility for administering this reward). I think almost every pipe smoker has a soft spot for one or two aromatics and this is one of mine.
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tramroad28	12/08/2009	Mild	Medium to Strong	Full	Pleasant
A harsh cherry blend that may require more drying than I allowed.
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The Full English	11/12/2009	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
It seems that cherry tobacco is the first port of call for all aromatics. It's almost like an unwritten code and serves as a baseline for everything else in the same category. I've previously tried it in its various guises (loose rolling, cigarillos, etc) around the world, culminating in SG Black Cherry as my first pipe version - and one I'd been looking forward to with some zeal. As cherry tobaccos go, it's quite heavily top-dressed. Get hands-on with it and you'll appreciate just how sugary it is. The tin comes across as rather sweet, but the casing is a pretty well-rendered morello cherry aroma, even if it does drown the Cavendish. It smells like a tobacco fit for dessert, and that's pretty much how it smokes. For the odd bowl, this would be a nice treat; It's full-on aromatic that pulls no punches, and goes down quite well with a nice coffee in the morning - or maybe even one of those kriek beers from Belgium. However, I've realized that I can't be done with smoking something like this all day. It's just a bit too sickly for that. It's also on the moist side and does need a regular re-light. I'd happily smoke this again, but only to begin the day, or as an after dinner moment. Certainly SG deliver a stout and robust cherry aromatic, but I'm pretty sure there are more polished blends out there, to boot.
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Tabakabouter	11/02/2008	Medium	Medium to Strong	Full	Pleasant
I am sorry: altough I am an aromatics fan, cherry flavour is not my favourite. I smoked the whole tin, so this Cavendish is not bad, has no tongue-bite and smokes cool. But I am missing something: body. This is too much chewing gum aroma for every day.
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jeffo	08/16/2008	Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
i have only just opened a tin of this and i can recommend it it has a nice aroma so my wife has told me and i think it tastes nice to it is not in my opinion a regular smoke but at the end of the day its nice and with a glass of beer even better
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Pseudo Nim	05/15/2008	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Tolerable
I love a black cavendish, but a bit too much on the cherry for my liking, but then what did I expect, it is, after all "Black Cherry" ended up mixing it with Golden Glow (see review) I smoke a lot of Sam Gawith's offerings and if you fancy a cherry black cavendish, this would be a good one to try.
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QuietMoments	07/25/2007	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
I found this a little dissappointing. Everything about it is "mild". The tobacco flavours and cherry flavours are both very subtle. It also lacks any punch at all. I also found that there was a roughness to the tobacco that built over the course of the pipe that left my throat a little jagged. Not a bad smoke, just not notable.
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Lord	03/30/2006	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
IMHO,the best tobacco with 'cherry' flavour.
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BostonPipe	07/01/2004	Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant
Another adventure form Samuel Gawith. As with all their flavoured blends, the high quality of the tobacco itself, makes them work. The flavouring agent in this case, black cherry, accentuates the quality tobacco-never overpowering the base. I find this to be a nice change of pace tobacco. Not an all day smoke, rather, a sort of dessert treate for once and a while. It did need a couple of relights and tamps before settling down. It burns to a dull-grey ash with a dry dottle.
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Benjamin	03/07/2004	Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
An extremely well-behaved aromatic. Absolutely marvellous.
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