Mac Baren Amphora Rich Aroma

Not the best tobacco made by Amphora, that's for sure...too bland and flavourless, it can give some satisfaction when mixed with a whisky aromatic blend.

Even under the D&E period, this Amphora had a bloated, overwhelming taste of caramel, chocolate and vanilla!. If your thing is aromatic tobacco, this should be close to paradise. The newer Imperial Tobacco version is not exactly better. It is not as refined as the older version and the sauce used to sweeten the tobacco is not as exquisite. Basically an extremely sweet Cavendish, with a bitter undertone, that will linger in your pipe (and your palate), long after you've smoked it, so be careful.

What a boring tobacco! An usual cavendish-burley-oriental with a nicely sweet room aroma and almost no taste! Hazelnut flavor? Where?!? A blend that doesn't fall in the "unsmokable" category, but in the "why should I smoke this stuff" one. It's a decently behaved, not goopy and not overly cased aromatic, but if you add the blandness and the fact that it is like hundreds of other equally boring cavendish drugstore blends to the slight tongue burn it gives, why should you be tempted to smoke this stuff?

'Well' I tried this in 3 different pipe's,it light's easily & puff's along very nicely.But all I could think of was a menthol feel to the tongue.Maybe it was me??? I'm not saying it's bad, but I do think you need to have an acquired taste for it.It leaves a nice clean ash at the bottom of the bowl & I prefered the taste half way through.I know of a gentleman who has smoked nothing but this, since it was first released. In it's class I'll give 2 out of 4 star's.

Nothing special, but not so bad. I would not buy it again.

One of the most horrible tobaccos I have ever smoked, gave me a sore throat and is also very sweet… migraine inducing sweet.

Definitely not recommended.

Otro buen tabaco de Macbaren. Rich aroma es un danés natural que se presenta cortado broken flake. Está integrado por burley, virginias y orientales y su nota aromática que recuerda a frutos secos (levemente achocolatados o avainillados), también uvas pasas, es muy leve. La humedad es correcta, a mí particularmente me gusta humedecerlo, frotarlo y dejarlo un poco estar. Se quema lento y fresco y seguramente habrá que reencenderlo un par de veces. Su intensidad es suave pero su sabor es pleno. Un tabaco muy placentero y agradable de fumar, con una nota de habitación también muy agradable.

Davvero pessimo: l'esempio stucchevole del perchè non amo gli Amphora: inconsistente, dolciastro, banale. Ne avevo comprato una busta, buttata dopo un paio di fumate. Mai più.

I used to mix the Amphora green with Borkum Riff Cherry then let it dry out a bit, it was my tobacco since the 80's till about 5?or more years ago. When I could no longer purchase the tobacco I quit smoking. Most people loved the aroma and the taste was of chocolate, hazelnuts and cherries. I generally smoked it in a bent pipe. Can no longer find the green and I noticed that Douve Egberts sold it to Imperial. Where I live in Canada tobacco costs over $20.00 a pouch so even now I seldom smoke. I have just bought Borkum Riff mixture with Cherry Cavendish which is OK so far but i miss the hints of chocolate and hazelnuts. We'll see how it goes.