The Country Squire Tobacconist Black Arrow

(3.80)
Velvety black cavendish tobacco, blended with care. Great as a gentle smoke on its own, or as a blending tobacco. Black Arrow has been a house favorite for decades.

Details

Brand The Country Squire Tobacconist
Blended By John David Cole
Manufactured By Country Squire
Blend Type Aromatic
Contents Black Cavendish
Flavoring
Cut Ribbon
Packaging Bulk
Country United States
Production Currently available

Profile

Strength
Mild
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Mild
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Very Pleasant
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

3.80 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 06, 2022 Extremely Mild Medium Medium to Full Very Pleasant
Zarnicky sat on balcony on cold Montreal afternoon. I smoking Black Arrow and sipping peach ice tea. Black Arrow is deliishous! (Tea good too.) Is very mild aromatic with no bite. Wonderfull tobacco. Tasting like vanilla, chocolate and hint of Carmel. Room note is intockshuating. One of Zarnicky's favourites. You must trying this tobacco. Zarnicky will buy this again.
Pipe Used: Savinelli Miele (642)
PurchasedFrom: The Country Squire
Age When Smoked: Fresh
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
May 20, 2020 Mild Medium Mild to Medium Very Pleasant
I was digging through some jars and found my jar of Black Arrow from the squire. I've really been enjoying this one.

The tobacco is as dark as the picture in the description. The moisture content is perfect. Easy to pack and light.

The flavor in the jar and the pipe is a velvety vanilla. The tobacco itself is in the background but smokes cool and produces tons of white smoke. No bite and very mild nicotine level.

This one smokes great straight and can also be added to other tobaccos where you want to add a little extra vanilla umph. I'm going to mix some with some VA stoved to try that also.
Pipe Used: Radiator Pipes, Canadians
PurchasedFrom: Country Squire
Age When Smoked: 1 year
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 03, 2019 Mild Mild Mild Pleasant
I really enjoy Black Arrow! Very smooth and velvety...just little hints of vanilla, peat, deep woods and honey. Not Goopy, blended just right. I love this any time of day, especially late at night. No bite at all. My wife always compliments the room note, and will allow me to smoke this indoors-- and will sometimes take a puff or two.
Pipe Used: Morgan Bones
PurchasedFrom: Country Squire
Age When Smoked: 1 year.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 21, 2022 Very Mild Mild Mild Pleasant
I was expecting a blend reminiscent of BCA, Captain Black Dark, PS201, etc. Compared to those blends, this blend had almost no flavor at all.

I could smoke this slow, hot, fast, huge clouds, whatever, and I only ever got a hint of the vanilla, which instantly vanished. Like the tobacco flavors are only available as a whisper on the wind instead of in the bowl.

I bought 1/4 pound of this and I am smoking this brand new, so I'll definitely come back to it after a few months in the jar. But this did not meet expectations.

UPDATE - 2023-05-10 I have been smoking this blend pretty regularly for almost half a year now. This is my standard blend for walking around the neighborhood because it behaves rather well needing only 1 or 2 relights in my cob, it's mild, it's rather inoffensive, and the smoke doesn't seem to stick on me at all.

I know how to smoke this blend now. With BCA-like blends, smoke low and slow to get the most out of the flavor. This blend doesn't really have anything going on at the low end of the temperature range. This blend likes constant puffing. You don't have to smoke like a train, but this blend will let you. The flavor vanishes really quickly, so a puff every 3 or 5 seconds or so will let you discover the profile. I don't take huge drags because this blend is best with the temperature in the midrange.

It won't bite. There are no edges. There's almost no nicotine in this blend.

Revising up to 3 stars now that I know how to get at it. I'm happy I have it, but I probably won't re-up because I like BCA better.
Age When Smoked: New / 6 months
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 05, 2022 Mild Mild Mild Very Pleasant
To give you a hint from where my below impressions are coming from; I favor aromatic blends (vanilla being my favorite), although I am finding I enjoy English/Scottish blends more frequently, which I could not stand when I first started smoking a pipe. I have been trying more of the English/Aromatic combo blends, which I have found being more and more of that I am reaching for for my everyday smoke

Opening the bag what I smelled was sweet, no specific flavor just a sweet note that I could not identify.

The flavor I tasted was mild vanilla. The sweet note came through tasting almost like honey??? I can't really place it exactly. My first thought was this is Sutliff's Molto Dolce without the Burley/Virginia... I like this much more, as the Black Cavendish adds to the sweetness and not having any other tobacco variants changing the taste. This will make it to my regular rotation!

It arrived semi-moist (drier than I expected), no drying time was needed. Was able to light this without issue and stayed lit without any problem. I did not have any tounge-bite with this blend.
Pipe Used: Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob
PurchasedFrom: thecountrysquireonline.com
Age When Smoked: new
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