Pipeworks & Wilke - Vermont Maple Cavendish pipe tobacco reviews

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Tantric	10/05/2006	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I much prefer this to its distant cousin Rum and Maple. I agree with lustra: this is tasty, to the point you could almost eat it, without it being overdone. Sure enough a couple of friends may point out: are you smoking a pipe or eating breakfast? Who cares? A good Cavendish blend, mild yet not prone to tongue bite, "cozy" and friendly. I imagine the use of Virginias helps to keep the maple flavor at bay (I'm not sure if the Cavendish comes from Burley?) Excellent for those early autumn-morning-strolls, and to make friends wherever you go.
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Sojang	10/01/2006	Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Very Pleasant
High grade, smooth, rich, excellent. Another of Carol's great blends. Smokes cool and dry right to the bottom. Everyone loves the room note.
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alchemyhunter	09/22/2006	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant
I guess from looking at my past reviews, I am either a "love it" or "leave it" pipe smoker. Well in keeping with all other P&W blends, this is a "love it" type blend. I am mostly through my second 1/2lb order. I will be getting more for the upcoming leaf-raking season. The pouch aroma is absolutely splendid and its appearance is very nice. It is a little moist and does benefit with an hour or two to dry out, but is not entirely necessary. Packs well, but this blend seems to be easily overpacked if you are not carefull. The three match method works well to light it. Copius amounts of delicious white fog billow from the bowl. Maple runs right up the pipe and smacks you in the face. Shortly thereafter, the amount of smoke decreases...in part because I puff gently to prevent excessive heat. Stays lit and is otherwise well behaved for an aromatic of this sort. One, maybe two, relights are needed. Tobacco flavor develops well through the bowl and comes through stonger as you get to the bottom, very similar characteristic of P&W Rumcake (of which I also need to order more of...). I cannot say enough about this blend. Want a world class aromatic...well this is it.
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uncleowen	05/18/2006	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I have been on the search for the Holy Grail of Maple blend tobaccos for about two years now. For about six months, I was happily smoking C&D Autumn Evening, thinking it was the best I was going to find. I wasn't quite happy and even followed the advice of an ASP friend and began blending Autumn Evening with another tobacco. Then... on yet another one of the sites I frequent, thank you God for my internet pipe smoking pals!, someone mentioned Carole's Maple Blend. I ordered 4 oz. about six months ago, and it is now a part of my happy weekly tobacco allowance. (W.T.A.) It is a true Maple essence to it, never burns, smokes pleasantly all the way done. What more can you want? If you don't want to make a big initial investment- order a sampler.
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RPearson	01/14/2006	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
This tobacco is superb. The flavor is wonderful and the room note is extremely delightful. The maple is not at all overwhelming, but is excellently balanced to create a very pleasant, and almost ambient, room note. A noticeable quality of this aromatic is the total lack of tongue bite. Kudos to Pipeworks & Wilke. Overall this tobacco makes for a truly enjoyable smoke that will have you coming back for more.
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OLDTIMER	01/12/2006	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
A wonderful blend.Slightly sweet and aromatic.The flavor is somewhat complex.It starts out with a great maple note, than switches to toffee and back to maple.This maple blend is really great , and worth a try. And burns to a clean gray ash it's a winner.
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OSR	01/02/2006	Mild	Strong	Mild to Medium	Strong
Enough has been said here extolling the virtues of this tobacco. The one thing I'll say that amazed me about this blend is the lack of bite. Even though the blend is very mild, it produces copious amounts of tasty, sweet smoke and never gets hot or cloying. Perhaps a better aromatic than Captain Black "White". And to me, that's saying something. Want to juice this blend up? Mix this half and half with Royal Yacht. I keep a small humidor of this concoction and really do enjoy it when I want an aromatic change of pace.
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aadelma	12/13/2005	Extremely Mild	Medium to Strong	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Very Pleasant
While this is an unusually well behaved cavendish with a nice aroma, it has so little flavor that I lose interest less than 1/2 way through the bowl. Like many extremely mild blends, I also found it to taste pretty nasty at the bottom of the bowl. I may mix it with some burley to give it some legitimate tobacco flavor, otherwise I'll pitch it. If you like aromatics, Wilke's own Bohemian Mixture is far more worthy of your attention than Vermont Maple Cavendish.
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lensman	10/30/2005	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
Yet another excellent aromatic from P&W. I was surprised at the pouch aroma, or rather lack of it, given the impressions of several other reviewers. The maple element is subtle, and there is a natural tobacco note. No pancakes or butter experiences for this reviewer. I did not experience anything mystic whilst smoking this pipe-weed, but there is something unique about the way the maple taste stays with the smoke for at least the first two-thirds of the bowl. A quality tobacco taste is readily found, and dominant, but the maple is always lingering. I'm not able to give it a four-star rating due to a tendency to smoke on the hot side. I've tried different packing strategies, and smoked it rather slowly, but the heat is a bit too much. Also, I find the last third of the bowl to deliver a charcoal or ash taste I don't care for. For several smokes, I just dumped at that point. On other smokes, I stayed with it.
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BigBen53	09/14/2005	Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
Wilke Vermont Maple Cavendish Delightful. opening the Pouch smells delightfully, and i smoke a bowl full a non biting mixture, Virginia and Carolina tobaccos fermented Black Cavendish are mixed with a Natural flavors from Vermont maple syrup tobacco delightful. burn cool all the way down to the bottom of the bowl, if you like Vermont maple this is the tobacco for you. i love it I'am puting This in my tobacco cellar, I smokes it in any pipe,I Love This Tobacco it is charming A.) I like it's taste delightfully a nice aromatics B.) I like that it's not biting. C.) It is easy to smoke, and maple flavor stay thougt out the bowl. D.) The Wilke Vermont Maple Cavendish lasts and lasts. the aroma in the room is delightfully, this is a wonderful tobacco, and i give it 4 star
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sasha	09/13/2005	Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
At Pipeworks&Wilke they are completely unable to blend a bad tobacco. Simply, they can't. I've tried many so far, and no one has been even the least disapponting. This one is another marvel, and trustworthy reviewers before me said it all. Living in Italy, I'm not familiar with maple taste, but if this is maple I'm going to order tons of maple syrup! It's just too good (and I'm a Balkan blends type of smoker...)
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KScelt	07/21/2005	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I decided to try the Vermont Maple blend in a vintage Wilke pipe. This is such a change from the English, Balkan, and Virginia blends I've been smoking. It's a "black and brown" blend - some brown Virginia and black cavendish with a lighter gold component as well - perhaps the Carolina? The tobaccos are high quality - not sticks and stems stuff. The pouch aroma is pleasant tobacco with a hint of maple. I lit up with some trepidation, fearing that this one would be too sweet and goopy an aromatic for me. I need not have been concerned. The moisture level seemed just about right, it lit easily and burned evenly. The pipe never got hot, and it seems to smoke cool. Mild, but flavorful, and that flavor is not overpowered by maple, almost more like an ongoing undertone. Not at all overly sweet. I had smoked a vanilla tobacco in the past that was always difficult to finish off well. It got steamy and wet. Vermont maple finished down to ash without any of that. This is a cozy sort of smoke, not cloying. It could be smoked all day, but what a wonderful breakfast/morning blend. Goes very well with a cup of coffee. I have 8 ounces, and before I'm through with it I'm sure I'll be ordering a pound. I might even ask Carole to add just a smidgeon more maple (She uses real Vermont maple syrup - not some artificial junk). Nice that you can ask for such things from this blender.
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Tom Bruce	07/05/2005	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
In a money and space saving attempt to limit myself mainly to four tobaccos (a burley, Virginian, English, and cavendish) the first one to make my permanent list is Wilke's Vermont Maple Cavendish. As someone else has noted, this is the first cavendish tobacco I have come across where the actual taste mirrors the exquisite odor of the pouch -- and it tastes and smells like syrupy pancakes. No one will ever complain about the smell of your pipe with this one. My over-active imagination thinks it even detects melted butter on the cakes. Puff as hard as I can, I can't make it get too hot; it burns down to a fine white ash with no dottle and the smoke is copious and moist in the mouth. This tobacco would be perfect for dieters as it will satisfy your sweet tooth at zero calories. The only drawback in this area: It creates in me a craving for hot cocoa, because that's what I like with my pancakes. I smoke this in a large bowl, because I want the experience to last, and it isn't until the last of the bowl that the maple taste dwindles to be replaced by a nice tobacco flavor with no after taste.There is no nicotine affect at all, so it makes a perfect late night smoke, one that I will enjoy every night into the foreseeable future.
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thedstnguishdgntlmn	06/29/2005	Mild to Medium	Strong	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I love Wilke tobaccos and this is no exception. It is very mapley(? is there such a word?). It is good,but not great.I feel a better choice would be C&D Autumn Evening.Very pleasant offering.
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Cutlasss	03/09/2005	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
I have to agree with the previous reviewers on Wilke's VMC. This is like having breakfast -ALL DAY-- The pouch note is redolent with real maple, not a chem-maple as with other bulk produced blends. The great part is that this tobacco does not deceive, you taste the maple in the smoke, and it is rich and satisfying.However, it does not gurgle due to the casing and burns cool and tasty. I smoke this and Wilke's Rumcake regularly along with three other Wilke blends and the colleagues at my office can always pick this one out by the pleasing room note. Carole, the tobacconist is a great person and I asked her if she would add a little extrta 'topping' of maple for me on my last order. She gladly obliged. This kind of service is only available from someone like her who blends to order in small batches. Whatever she did, it is absolutley right-on! Just the right amount of flavor and richness. If you are a fan of Carolina and VA cavendish, this is a must smoke! Four Stars without a doubt!
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UncleGar	12/11/2004	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I came across this while looking for a tobacco for my neighbor. He told me he used to smoke a ?pancakes? blend no longer sold; he now smokes the most godawful little cherry cigars. I planned on giving him some of this and begging him to smoke it instead. (Insight to those of you who have people begging you to smoke something..) Well, I still haven?t given it to him. The official reason is that he no longer has a pipe. Actually, this stuff hooked me. The flavoring is actually complementary, not all that much sweeter than most straight Virginia tobaccos I smoke. The blend is mild, as one would expect, and I puff it mercilessly to get more flavor. No bite! Oddly, heat is not an issue, either. And lo, the aroma! Indeed, it is pancakes with Vermont maple syrup. Easy to live with when the wintry blasts require closed windows. I am a fan of a number of various types of tobacco, including balkans. This is the diametric opposite of a balkan, just as Gilbert and Sullivan are opposite to Willie Nelson. Yet both are found in my CD player at the moment. Schizo tastes? Maybe, but I know what I like. Try this. Double dog dare ya.
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lustra	11/01/2004	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
In the small world of maple-flavored tobaccos, this blend is king. Really delicious, but not overdone, rich with natural tobacco flavor, yet sweet and toothsome in a pancake-y way. This is one of the best sweet tobaccos I have ever smoked, and people around you will beg you to smoke it. Not for the Latakia fan, or even for the natural Virginia die-hard, but if you like something of quality that is sweet and nearly perfectly done, you can't miss with this tobacco.
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