Mac Baren - Cherry Ambrosia pipe tobacco reviews

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TomekKGG	11/05/2012	Mild	Medium to Strong	Very Mild	Pleasant

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Pipe4ever	10/21/2012	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
This is the best cherry blend I know to date, the sweet Virginia and the strong jamaican rum are the main players here, while the cherry aroma takes the back sit. the flavor is sweet and delightful, however this blend requires an experienced pipe smoker more than any other MB blend, An Extremely slow smoking pace with small puffs is required to enjoy this fine blend.
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Dr.sadik	06/02/2012	Mild	Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
this is a tobacco that require extra awareness in regards to smoking it slowly to enjoy better taste and save your tongue from the eternal fire pit that it might fall into. the cheery sweetness is defiantly there and it overcome the tobacco throughout most of the bowl. the room note is perfect. social tobacco it is but first you have to be a lover of sweet tobacco and a slow puffer only in that case i can recommend it.
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Northern Pipes	05/03/2012	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
First off, I'm not the biggest fan of fruit flavoured tobaccos. This tobacco was just Meh. Not great, not bad. It's actually been a while since I've smoked this, so maybe I will give it a whirl again, but there's really nothing that's drawing me back other than curiosity to see if my tastes have changed.
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JustOneforMe	04/26/2012	Very Mild	Medium to Strong	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant
I have now smoked several Mac Baren offerings and will not review them any further since they are extremely not to my liking. If interested in my thoughts about their line of tobaccos then just see my review on Burley London, it pretty much sums up this vapid weed give or take a slight aromatic difference (vanilla, cherry etc...).
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datozaurs	04/15/2012	Medium	Medium	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant

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Tom Bombadill	12/09/2011	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I'm very happy and impressed with this blend. I cellared the tin for a year before I cracked it open 07/01/11. Initially, the casing/flavor was insane and some will find overpowering. It smelled like it was steeped in cherry liquor. Reeked of cherry. The cherry was so pungent and strong "ghosting" the bowl was an issue until the blend aired out after quite a few bowls. The next thing that was obvious, and impressive, was the quality of the tobacco: dark cavendish, burley, and light virginias. Nice chunks of flake in the already rubbed out mix. Seriously, I could have sorted out the chunks and had a small of tin of my own "Cherry Ambrosia flake." Tongue bite was never a problem. Really nice quality tobacco. What was fun and enjoyable was how this blend changed over time. I'm finishing the tin off now six months after opening it and the smoking experience is very different from when I started. I smoke aromatics intermittantly and cherry ones less so, so my tin of CA has lasted awhile. At the start it was like smoking cherry candy tobacco. Right now, it is especially nice because the strength and quality of the virginias are really predominant with a nice flavor of cherry. Great roomnote from when I cracked it in July on a porch in Vermont, to when I'm smoking it now in my den on a chilly night in Boston. A great aromatic for virginia lovers after the casing has had a while to air out. Great quality tobacco. Great value with the 100g tin. CA was an evolviing smoking experince as it morphed from an aromatic with some tobacco in it, to a mellow and strong virginia smoke with cherry flavor. I won't be smoking a cherry aromatic very frequently but I will buy this blend again.
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ewlship	11/28/2011	Mild	None detected	Mild	Pleasant
My tobacconist told me this was the best cherry out there (and he has a great selection). I was thoroughly disappointed. This is the first Mac Baren product I have tried, and found it to have no flavor, and only a bit of aroma. I think the worst part is that it is in a 100g tin which will take me some time to get through. I blended it with some cavendish which made it a bit more palatable for me. The tobacco was dry enough, stayed lit and burned well. I found it dry on the tongue. Friends and wife says it smells great, but it don't notice anything special about the aroma.
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Bradley	11/04/2011	Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant
I gave this blend a go a while back. It's a very tastey blend that goes great with a glass of Red Stag, especially on a warm summer evening. The only thing I would mention bad about it is the "ready rub" Burley in it should be rubbed out further. At first I just left the ready rub as was and when I smoked down to it the cherry and rum flavour faded rather quickly. After rubbing the Burley out a little myself the second time it retained the flavour much more consistantly. Other than that though this was a good cherry blend by MacB. No tongue bite at all and the flavour was quite good. I'd recommend this if you're hunting for a cherry blend.
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Scamp	07/26/2011	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
The tin note I get from this is very nice. You can smell the cherry straight away mixing in nicely with the different tobaccos. Upon lighting, there was a little flavour of cherry but this didn't carry through to the smoke very well in my opinion. I could taste some notes from the burley and virginia but nothing to pronounced. I don't think burley was a good choice to add to this blend as it over-powered some of the more subtle flavours. There was a point about a quarter of a way down the bowl where I really did enjoy it, but about half way down the bowl the dreaded mac bite started to kick in, after that I slowley lost interest. All in all, I think I can see why some avid aromatic smokers would like this, but it left me feeling somewhat indifferent.
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NedF	07/12/2011	Very Mild	Very Mild	Very Mild	Tolerable
This was my first foray into cherry blends; I avoided them for some time in the past. In the future I will continue to do so. The mild alcohol notes were only present for the first bowl; angel's share, perhaps?
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HobbyPipes	06/27/2011	Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
I purchased this tobacco on a hunch, This tobacco has gotten several bad reviews. I just wanted to try for myself. The first taste that I got was the taste of a light cigar. After it burned half way down, I then tasted light sweetness. Then to the bottom the cigar flavor again. I did not get the taste of the cherry, like most people didn't. My wife said the room note was fruity, and is tolerable. I have smoked a lot of tobaccos, but this has a little high nicotine content, in my opinion. This could be a good tobacco for the evenings with a good coffee, something to wind down with after a long day. It did have a hot burn for a bit, but no tongue bite, which was surprising. I would recommend this tobacco for the experienced smoker, This is not for a novice smoker that is trying to find that special tobacco.
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Arash	05/23/2011	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable

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wosbald	04/23/2011	Mild	Medium	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
The tin aroma of this mixture of ribbon and broken flake is cherry, though not obtrusively so, along with a vaguely alcoholic scent. This is combination of virginia cavendish (both bright and black) along with light burley cavendish. The mix tilts to the clean sweetness of the virginias, and further tilts to sweetness, in general. This is an exceptionally sweet blend. Thoughtfully conceived, the flavorings are well-integrated into the whole. Exceptional for those who like sweet leaf, Cherry Ambrosia is a delightful blend in which the whole is greater than the parts. This will ghost a briar and went well in a chamber of any gauge.
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TheWanderingRecluse	04/12/2011	Mild	Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant
This makes an excellent choice for those fond of cherry aromatics. While many have mentioned Mac Baren's "notorious bite" - I've found this a much more suitable alternative to either Tinderbox's "Anniversary Blend" (a cherry aromatic) or the Captain Black Cherry that many new pipe smokers seem to gravitate toward (out of convenience I can only assume). When properly dried a bit (though I enjoyed it rather wet as well), it makes for a pleasant and tasty smoke if one is fond of aromatics. Again, an excellent "first choice" for new pipe smokers.
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hockey01	02/22/2011	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
What's the deal with cherry blends anyway? Because every manunufacturer/blender seems to have its own take on 'les cerises', one would conclude that there must be a large number of guys who like walking around smelling like a cherry tart in the oven. (Why not a cinnamon bun?) But, hey, I bought a tin of this stuff didn't I? And....I've had better cherry blends, that's for sure. I just happen to believe, as a long-time pipe smoker, that n order to get a really good cherry blend, you need to have an American blender using American tobaccos and casing techniques. Non-American manufacturers do not do cherry blends well, and this one is no exception. Good fruity cherry smell upon opening the tin, but there it ends; does not translate either to taste or to room note. Stays lit pretty well and I found no tongue bite with Cherry Ambrosia as long as you puff it gently. If you smoke it too hot and fast, you'll get an awful odor and taste. Seriously, you really want cherry? Try J. M. Boswell & Sons' "Cherry Smash" or "Bear Blend". Also try Pipeworks & Wilkie's "Cherry Cavendish." NOW you're talking cherry, my friend.
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morphijuana	12/24/2010	Very Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium	Tolerable
This is the third time I have edited my review of this tobacco. I find it very unsatisfying. You pick up the cherry casing upon smoking, but the finish is horrible. I would not suggest this tobacco to anyone. Im tempted to throw out my entire tin. I want to say, I do enjoy most aromatics and Mac Baren blends, but not this one.
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Kovacs	11/03/2010	Very Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant
EDIT Okay, I've been very harsh when reviewing this blend. I've tried it a couple of months later and it dried a bit, but still, it had to be aired for half an hour. If you light it when it contains the proper ammount of moisture, it burns dry, but doesn't bite you, and you get a nice cherry taste. But honestly, i've smoked it in a pipe from which I smoked cherry blends earlier. I give it three stars, but be prepared, that in contrast of the nice smoking experience, it leaves a disgusting aftertaste and smell in your mouth.
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SmokeyD	10/30/2010	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I took somewhat of a risk when I purchased a pouch of this. What with all the bad reviews here. I was at the local hypermart when I felt like picking up some OTC tobacco to change things up. After smoking VaPers and English Blends with the occasional aromatic Vanilla, I had the sudden urge to try out something with Cherry in it. MacB never bit me before so I decided to risk it on a pouch. Reading the back of the pouch... Black Virginia Cavendish, Virginia & Burley with Jamaican Rum and Cherry. Doesn't sound too bad. Opening the pouch, the note is of Cherries and sweet rum. Yummy. The tobacco was not overly moist and I did not wait for it to dry before packing a Cob. The light was easy. No fuss. Initial impression was... "this is very light. I cannot taste much tobacco or cherry or rum." As such, I decided to murder some weeds in the garden whilst puffing on the cob. Halfway through the impromptu gardening, the smoke started getting my attention. The taste of cherry and tobacco is now stronger. I started to focus on the smoke now. Musky, sweet, tangy and a medium Virginia taste. Not bad at all! No bite (McB has always been kind to me) and no relights. All in a nice aromatic smoke that gets tastier halfway down. A solid 3 stars from me. If you are a lover of Cherry Aromatics, or just Aromatics, or if you just want a change in your smoke, I would recommend you this for sure!
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the old man	06/23/2010	Mild	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
could have used a little less cherry casing in this blend. burns well. do not have to keep relighting my pipe. if one likes cherry blends try this one, you may like it
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