Mac Baren - Cherry Ambrosia pipe tobacco reviews

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slightlyfermentedvirginiaflake	05/25/2010	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Tolerable
I am a MacBaren's nut! Their best blends are wonderful...The aromatics leave a lot to be desired... Recently, I had the opportunity to buy a hoard of MacBaren's tins at about 1/3 retail price. My purchase included a few tins of Cherry Ambrosia. I thought, "what the hell, it was cheap (knowing I would not like the cherry blend)." As expected, this stuff smells like heaven in the tin, tasted pretty good for about five minutes...then, it got hot and all I could taste was the aromatic casing; the two main reasons why I do not like aromatics. HOWEVER, I did not want to waste the tobacco. HERE IS THE SOLUTION, Try mixing Cherry Ambrosia 50/50 to 60/40 with MacBaren's Virginia No.1 (always more Virginia No.1 and less Cherry Ambrosia). Virginia no. 1 is a cool and sweet smoke. The Virginia No.1 cooled and added flavor to this otherwise impossible tobacco (Cherry Ambrosia). Actually, I am so satified with the combination, I will probably put this mixture in my summer rotation. In conclusion, Cherry Ambrosia is an impossible tobacco, it burns hot and has the typical aromatic gliceryn-casing taste. However, mixed with Virginia no.1 it is not only acceptable but actually becomes a very pleasant, cool, and sweet smoke! Cherry Ambrosia, 1 star. Cherry Ambrosia/with Virginia No.1, 3 stars! UPDATE: After smoking my Cherry Ambrosia/ Virginia No.1 mixture for about three weeks, I believe the mixture should be more like 70% Virginia No. 1 to 30% Cherry Ambrosia. At 50/50, I still get a the "aromatic-glycerin" taste. A little more Virginia No. 1 should help!
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Upon	05/11/2010	Medium	Mild	Medium	Tolerable
Occasionally on a sunny day, in a cob in the garden, Cherry Ambrosia delivers a smooth and sweet sensation. Those times it can actually taste better than any other one of MacBaren's mixtures, including the flagship HH much-ados about nuttin'. Other times, more frequently I must admit, the result is the typical MacBaren acrid burley and nothing else. Cherry taste? Never. One pouch goes far.
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pgzzz	12/26/2009	Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is my first review. I have tried a number of cherry aromatics and on opening the pouch the tobacco showed a lot of promise. Very strong cherry aroma. On lighting though the cherry taste was slight and very "synthetic". One of the few tobaccos that have genuinly diasappointed me. I would advise people to go for Mclintocks black cherry which is far superior in my oppinion.
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flagg1122	10/15/2009	Mild	Mild	Medium	Tolerable
Not great...a little cherry, a lot of chemical. This burns hot and wet. Avoid.
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paulwfromtheden	09/12/2009	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
It's ok, no more than that. It does burn hot, even for me who tends to smoke very slowly. Someone who smokes quick is likely to burn his pipe out. It smells devine in the pouch, reminiscent of a bowl of ripe cherries. But that's it. There really is no cherry 'flavour'. It does not burn well down to the bottom of the bowl either, it turns into a wet, gooey mess with an unplesant taste. If you really want to try a cherry flavoured aromatic, go for it.
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Moçambicano	05/23/2009	Mild	Strong	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I've started to search for a decent cherry aromatic; this was my second try the first was Mayflower, which I found to be very unpleasant. This offering by MacBaren's is better: at the very least I could draw some pleasure out of it. Nevertheless, I was left with the impression that the toppings were synthetic and the tobacco a bit sub-par. I'll return to it only in case of need, when I feel the urge to taste this kind of aromatic and nothing better of its genre is available in the store.
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doc'spipe	02/16/2009	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
Cherry Ambrosia is a "second string" player as far as my opinion of Mac Baren blends goes. I've smoked many a tin of this, but never found it overly satisfying. Nice tin aroma, but no detectable cherry smell or taste for me while smoking. Needs to be dried sufficiently as it will smoke hot. I'm not talking about bite, but about the briar bowl at times becoming uncomfortably hot to hold. I wouldn't exactly say it was "bitey", but there was that ever-present peppery sting at my lips - and not in a good way such as a blend with a bit of Perique would do. Perhaps I was smoking it a tad too fast to compensate for the lack of zest it presented. No problems with packing or moisture, but the lack of taste and flavor coupled with that peppery annoyance was, for me, too much of a distraction for an enjoyable smoke. I can't say I will be re-visiting Cherry Ambrosia any time soon as I've grown tired of it. A shame too, since it had a very nice cherry smell in the tin. I give it 2 stars out of 4.
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Ixtlan	12/29/2008	Medium	Medium to Strong	Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
Cherry it is. Very strong taste of cherry in this. It is the sweetest of them I have tried. Smells very good to others and taste is very pleasant. It does tend to bite when fresh due to the casings being so heavy. Drying will improve this. It has a tangy aftertaste and cleaning of your pipe is required regularly smoking this. It tends to build a tar taste at the bottom of the bowl that builds rather quickly and boils. Smoking this sweet tobacco does tend to give me a metal aftertaste if I smoke a lot of it. Great for a treat now and then but not as regular day to day blend. I highly recommend this for that purpose. It is very good.
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rhapsodyofmetal	12/16/2008	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
I have not found my "cherry go to blend" with this. It is a good aromatic but it does lack the pizazz of most other cherry blends. Mac Baren are not doing well with me. Their score card is 1 for 3. Their Vanilla cream hit well but Cherry Ambrosia and Plumcake are getting a 1-2 star rating.
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Necromancer	03/12/2008	Medium	Very Mild	Mild	Tolerable

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rlaw	12/07/2007	Mild to Medium	None detected	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Tolerable
Oh how the labels lie - they can make them sound so good. Smells great in the tin but beyong that not much else to brag about. Did not taste cherry, I did taste a little straw/hay however. Burns hot!
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giturra	03/17/2007	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Oh my, the reviews are so harsh on this blend, it's clearly not the most outstanding tobacco ever, but it's far from being categorized as hell itself. I've only smoked the old version of it (old mac baren logo) but I have never tried the new one, which I'm told is slightly different. So I suppose it's underwhelming and it does burn hot if not smoked carefully, but it's still nice to smoke once in a while, it's an aromatic that's both, mild and a bit more complex than the average OTC cherry tobaccos.I think most of the reviewers before me may be serious english blends smokers, and therefore they HATE this blend for being an aromatic and so mild. then again I can still see why some ppl wouldn't like it, but please do not be predjudiced so much against it, I for one like it for what it is. Mild, sweet dessert kind of tobacco. Only for aromatic smokers though!!! UPDATE I just bought a package of the new mac baren (with new packaging & new logo) and now I understand why ppl complain so much, even if I still kind of like it, the former version was far more subtle and didn't have this much tongue bite. I'll have to learn how to smoke it or find some more of the old version of it.
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erz316	04/14/2006	Very Mild	None detected	Mild	Pleasant
I did not taste or smell any cherry in this blend while smoking it. The only time i tasted cherry was after i was done smoking, when a faint taste of burnt dried cherries lingered in my mouth. The tin aroma was wonderful however it smokes hot as an iron forge and bites like a rabid dog.
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Philo Beddoe	03/08/2006	Mild	Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
Better than Middletons Cherry Blend or Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish, but that isn't saying much. Smelled good in the tin but tasted cooked and pale. Not as bad as others have mentioned but definitely not worth the high price. If you want a really good cherry aromatic try Anniversary from Tinder Box.
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Beer	09/23/2005	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Just another burley+cavendish+broken flake aromatic, not worth trying. The sweet cherry flavoring overwhelms whatever tobacco taste, unless you puff like hell and get a scorched tongue and the usual bitter/acrid taste you get from bad aromatics. Thank God the pouch was a gift from an old lady neighbour, or I would have regretted my money (OK, there are worse tobaccos... but this one certainly isn't good either...).
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DUPE.1512	06/11/2005	Mild	Strong	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Nasty, tounge bite city. Grusome and horrid. Yucksville. Only Borkum Riff cherry is nastier than this abomination of a tobacco.
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Lbarraa	05/29/2005	Mild	Strong	Medium	Pleasant
I usually don't like the very flavor tobaccos, but this blend likes me. Is a interesting with a good cavendish portion. Easy to burn, tasty and very considerer with the sorrounding people. With a litle tongue bite. Good tobacco.
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Hermit 78	11/18/2004	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
When I first got into smoking pipe tobacco I picked up a pouch of this stuff, drawn to the label's promise of a "taste of delightful cherries," and a "touch of genuine Jamaica rum." I still haven't gotten throught that very same pouch. Although the tin aroma is indeed cherry-like, the smoking flavour itself is something stranger and far more gruesome. It also has a disgusting aftertaste reminiscent of cheap cigarettes. Not since Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur have I had anything this bad, and it doesn't even taste that much like cherries. I'm afraid the haters were right on this one, ladies and gentlemen. Pure stank.
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Checkmate	07/26/2003	Mild to Medium	Very Strong	Medium	Tolerable
There are few tobaccos that make me wince so much as Cherry Ambrosia. Maybe Dunhill Royal Yacht can compare to it in my list of tobaccos not to buy. The casing of this tobacco could be described as horrible but in this circumstance words pale. Aside from the fact that the package labeled "tobacco" and it burned like tobacco I'd have doubted that it was. Instead of paying actual money for this tobacco a better option would be to give the money to a hardened crininal and ask to be beaten with a rubber hose... repetedly...for a week.
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Cirdan	02/04/2003	Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Got it as a birthday present and required to smoke it immediatly, I fear for my mouth and pipe. It turned out not to be so bad. It is no masterpice of blending, but it burns with ease, no bite, and after a ouple of puffs there is hardly any cherry. No chemical taste at all, just gentile cavendish, wich is not bad
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