Paladin - Black Cherry pipe tobacco reviews

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chetking	08/01/2010	Medium to Strong	Medium to Strong	Full	Pleasant
If you're a fan of non-sweet aromatics just avoid this blend and save the anguish. But for me inexpensive and relatively plentiful Paladin from Pinkerton is just the "nutz on the sundae." Especially if you: a) desire your cherry blend on the sweeter side and/or b) want a tobac you can mix with genetic burley or non-aromatic leaf to give it just the bit of cherry flavour you crave. For all intents and purposes Paladin is most useful as a condiment type cherry flavour additive tobacco. A previous reviewer suggested mixing it with Prince Albert or other burleys and that's an excellent alternative; I've done the same with Carter Hall and Mixture 79 to great satisfaction. Even mixed it with Red Cap, a coarsely flavored tobac concoction that tastes more like cigarette than pipe tobacco. For me it managed to make the rest of the Red Cap pouch smokable. So I puff Paladin straight as I am right now in a Great Dane Bent cob reserved especially for cherry blends. Or, keep it around as a trouble shooter mixer just like you would Tabasco or Frank's RedHot Sauce on the kitchen table. Some of our purist non-aromatic reviewers rate Paladin as a pouch of "glop" but for we lovers of sweet aromatics its a cheap, pleasurable if not versatile date. Happy hunting.
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Boston Bill	07/23/2010	Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
While I don't usually like flavored tobaccos, this is one of the few that's I've actually enjoyed. This was a good, solid everyday smoke when I was just staring out, and when I went back to it in recent years, I still found it decent, and a step above many of its competitors. Tastes good, burns well, good room note, inexpensive and readily available... not a bad choice.
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yinyang	07/17/2010	Very Mild	Extra Strong	Very Mild	Pleasant
Ugh... My first (I think) Aro. Wow. Strong, yicky Sucrets flavor. I actually smoked through my first pouch on ignorance alone. My old lady bought me another, apparently as a tactic to help collect on life insurance. If I ever smoke another bowl, she'll probably cash in. Yes. THAT bad. Is it even tobacco? I'm too scared to find out. Not Recommended, at all.
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happy jack	06/05/2010	Medium to Strong	Very Strong	Very Mild	Tolerable to Strong
If you never tryed this I would recomend you don't. Horrid casing to say the lest, not wasting time on my reiew, I'v found cherry to be a very difficult casing, harsh, soppy, hot and nasty. If your looking for cherry, may I suggest Half and Half, I think its in there, much better and a classic OTC. no stars here.
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Storm Watch	04/28/2010	Mild	Very Strong	Medium to Full	Tolerable to Strong
I usually like blends with a good strong taste. This stuff is like putting fifty cherry cough drops in your mouth at once. It also bit the heck out of me. I smoked one bowl of this crap in a cob and had to throw the cob away because that's all I could taste out of it afterwords. If you like cherry find something else. Anything else.
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ivycap	03/31/2010	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I would consider Paladin Black Cherry to be a "fun" tobacco, but not a "serious" one. It is cased so heavily in cherry flavoring that you might as well be smoking candy. It's sweet as heck and fun to try, but one mustn't try it in a good pipe or he would ruin it for good. If candy is what you're looking for, candy is what you'll get. If you're looking for meat. This isn't it. Also, it doesn't cellar well. The casing goes stale and the flavor flatlines.
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Dewey	03/04/2010	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Today I officially converted from cigarettes to pipe. I went to the local tobacco shop and spent about 20 minutes just browsing around. I decided on a pouch that the clerk said was a popular seller (Carter Hall) and a pouch of this Paladin Black Cherry. I'm still a little confused about the types of tobaccos, the packaging says this is has flue cured and burley tobaccos, but the site says cavendish, ah well it will make sense one day I'm sure. So far these two tobaccos are all I have to go on, but after smoking a bowl of both, and then mixing a bowl of the two brands I've decided to keep the Paladin as a mixer for later tobacco experiments. My advice to beginner smokers don't buy this tobacco alone if you haven't tried pipe tobacco yet. It's a little harsh for lack of better words. On the plus side it smells really good and like some other reviews I read will likely make a really good mixer with quality tobaccos, maybe a 20% mix or less.
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Sperry	03/03/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
this was my first tobacco and i thought it was a wonderful introduction to the world of pipe smoking. the pleasant aroma quickly filled the air and everyone in the room was drawn in by the smell. the taste was mild but not a great one. it bites extremely easy if you dont take care. i probably wont buy it again, however i do recommend it to first time/novice smokers like myself because of the great room note and mild flavor. also use on a pipe that you dont care for much, it will change the taste of your pipe.
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Tripp_655321	02/23/2010	Mild	Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
This tobacco is heavily cased with a cherry flavor that tastes like couph syrup. Not a good smoke.... but if you dry it a bit, and mix it it can be. I dried this a bit, mixed it with a little PA Vanilla, PA, and Skandinavik full aroma and it was great. It tasted great and smelled like a baked good consisting of chocolate, vanilla, and cherry. My girlfriend really appriciated the smell. You have to rub out the Skandinavik alot to make this work as it burns way different.
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Fencing_Phoenix	02/22/2010	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is one of the first tobaccos I have ever tried. I was caught by the name and price of the tin. The casing is a bit strong on this one, and it is pretty strong right out of the tin. I would like to point out that if you are a fan of cherry flavoring, this one is for you. It reminded me of a cheap, off-brand black cherry cola that RC puts out, both in smell and taste. If you can get past the chemically taste, and have a sweet tooth, it's actually not that bad. It also tends to smoke a bit hot, and will bite if you don't take care. If you are trying this for the first time, put it in a pipe that you don't care much for, as the flavoring on this one will pervade a pipe for years to come. I'm currently aging my tin to see just what effect that has on it; I suspect that the chemical taste will probably subside.
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Shawn_M	02/16/2010	Mild	Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant
My wife really enjoys the times I smoke this, and thats the only reason I'll smoke it. It smells great when opened but I'm not a fan of cherry flavoring, and it's rather overwhelming. I rarely have to worry about bite most of the time, but this stuff I have to puff very gently, if a strongly flavored blend is your cup of tea then you might enjoy it.
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Piper4ever	01/27/2010	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
Every time I see a pipe tobacco at the store that I don't know, I've got the impulse for trying it and this happened to me with this blackcherry, long history short, disappointment because is a mild to weak strength tobacco without a good flavor and tastes like smoking tobacco with mold, yuck. I have the feeling that I have to thoroughly clean my pipe, I mean at the Bio-Hazard level, You know what I mean?
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doc'spipe	01/16/2010	Very Mild	Medium	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
You get what the package says - "Black Cherry." I smoked quite a bit of this during my early piper days and always found it a pleasant smoke. I enjoy cherry flavoring and the beautiful room note a good cherry blend can produce. Long gone are the days I would choose a pipe tobacco based on its flavoring, since I now enjoy the taste of good tobacco first, and any added flavoring has to play second fiddle. I never found it to be medicinal, nor did I find it harsh or bitter. A bit gurgly, yes. Dottle, some. Inexpensive, you bet! All in all 3 stars for those starting out, but only 2 stars for those who have developed a taste for fine tobacco.
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BriarChild	10/06/2009	Mild	Very Strong	Medium	Pleasant
I have been smoking a pipe for quite a long time and have always thought that I could smoke just about anything. This I could not smoke. I should say that I am not a huge fan of cherry flavoring to begin with, so that needs to be taken into account. Even still, I felt like I was getting repeatedly pummelled over the head with a bag of rocks soaked in Cherry cough syrup. That said, the price is good, and I have read and heard that it becomes much nicer when cut with Prince Albert or Carter Hall. So I will give it another shot that way when the desire strikes me.
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appy	09/27/2009	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Greetings brothers and sisters of the briar. My daughter purchased 2 pouches of this stuff as part of a birthday gift for dear ole dad. I just chuckled and tossed it into my desk drawer. 6 months later, and a family dinner she inquired as to the tobac she had gotten me. Not to hurt her feelings I dug it out and in a grabow i fired up. WOW. the aging did wonders!! The drying removed most of the preservatives. Bare in mind that OTC tobaccos are treated to withstand long shelf lives. Nice cut, not sticky as when new, the strong aroma deminished. First lighting, cherry aroma but not strong. Mid bowl, nice smooth burly. Bottom of bowl, still flavorful but not wet goopy or bitter. The room note is very nice. All in company loved it. All I can say is get a pouch and let it age in its opened pouch, you will be in for a treat. I have 5 pouches brewing away in its mason jar. I have tried much higher priced aromatics that I didnt enjoy nearly as much. I will report back when a year or so aging is completed.
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Robert	08/26/2009	Strong	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Tolerable
I remembered this from many years ago and decided to try it again for the review. I could not find it locally and had to wait for an order of it to arrive. It came today and I wish the mail man had lost it. I did not like it years ago but tastes change as you get older. To be completely fair I had to try it again. It was like someone had tried to shove a cherry tree up my nose. I see another poster has mixed it with PA and I find it slightly tolerable that way. I have serious doubts it will cellar very well and I'm thankful I only ordered a pouch of it. 3/4 of the way through the first bowl it bit my tongue like a dull chain saw. Like any new tobacco I try I used it in a cob just in case it was really bad. I'm glad I did. Once the mixture is finally gone I'll be tossing the cob. I can't recommend this even to the very poor. Being cheap is it's only saving grace. If you are desperate enough to buy it try mixing in some saw dust. It can't hurt.
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smokeybandit	07/30/2009	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant
wow, this stuff is potent. The smell is of some type of cherry chemical that is unbelievably strong. I agree with most of the reviews on here. This stuff smokes hot and taste like cherry scented cleaning chemicals.
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agentlemanfromindiana	07/13/2009	Very Mild	Very Strong	Mild	Very Pleasant
Typical mass produced sticky tobacco. You'll see what I mean if you try it.
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pandabearzx2	07/07/2009	Mild	Extra Strong	Medium	Tolerable to Strong
Before you even light it, your pipe tastes like a cough drop. Took a few bowls before I could get the taste out of it. I don't reccomend it at all. Unless you REALLY like blends where all you taste is the aromatic (and really like cherry cough drops), don't waste your money.
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DrugStorePuffer	05/20/2009	Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
I guess this is my first choice in a ready to smoke tobacco. Good taste, pleasant room note, burns well and has a good price. I have taken to my own blend and have yet to find a "ready to smoke tobacco" that I like as much. Taste could be a little better but there is no bite and I have not noticed any excessive puddles in the bottom of my pipe.
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