Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish (Ruby)

I destroyed a pipe in my youth with this crap. The briar got all soaked with the cherry juice from this "tobacco". That was 23 years ago, and the pipe still got the cherry smell.

Avoid Borkum Riff if you want real quality pipe tobaccos instead of smokable candy.

This is probably the best offering from Borkum Riff, if I may speak so...

Not a great tobacco, by all means. But not terrible either.

I honestly don't know what i was thinking. I think i was watching a pipeman video and he said something like 'there's more to pipe tobacco than cherry and vanilla'. Cherry tobacco? How odd. It's ok in a Nargila (Arab water pipe)--maybe i will try it! When you open the packet, this candy cherry smell is overpowering; smells like it would be nice to eat. I smoked it a few times (this was my second tobacco) and after buying some peterson tobacco (sunset breeze--not crazy about it), i could not go back to this. I chucked the remaining baccy in the bin. Ewe! PS--all the stuff about--strength, taste, etc, i had to fill in to submit my review--i have no idea what i am talking about, except for the room note.

My daughter bought me a pouch of this as she liked the way it smelled, when I saw it was cherry flavoured I cringed. Cherry is not one of my favourite flavours in anything, let alone my pipe tobacco. I thanked her, filled one of my corncobs and proceded light up, getting ready to make some polite comments to her.

WOW!

I was honestly surprised, the cherry is very subtle, almost an undertone to the tobacco, along with a spicy full earth like taste. It does smell strong in the room,(although I enjoy this), and it can bite if puffed too hard/quickly. This is one tobacco I can say has won me over, and I plan on buying it on a regular basis.

3/3/10 I have to add an additional comment, the nicotine content is rather high. I smoke 15 to 20 pipes a day on the average. More than 3 or 4 of this blend and I can feel the effects, and start getting dizzy and somewhat nauseous.

I want my money back. I couldn't taste this tobacco and it does not burn well at all. At least it smells good.

It is the tobacco for which (in my opinion) there is the largest difference between the taste you pipe smoker feel and the room note.

From the pipe smoker feeling, it is more a dull strong kentucky-based mixture (the cavendish is very far in the background, vanilla and cherry almost undetectable). Tongue bite easy to obtain as well with this tobak !!

From the other people in the room, it seems to be a delicious smell, not strong at all. If you would like to experiment strong kentucky-based mixtures, please don't choose this one, except if you want to have the look (but only the look) of an aficionado of mild aromatics.



Conclusion: Please do yourself a favor: avoid this stuff by all means!

i like the smell of this blend when it is lit even though it gave me a lot of tongue bites and constant relighting.

it's something that i'd smoke once in a while, but i'd go for the others...

This tobacco, upon opening the pouch, sends a forewarning in my opinion. The cherry aroma is "over the top" - gaudy, and synthetic. The tobacco handles quite nicely, and filling a loose, lightly tamped bowl will yield satisfactory results. .. After 1/4 bowl smoked, the dark fired Kentucky comes out somewhat, giving a bit of character to this mixture. .. lights well, will bite a brisk smoker, and is I think, a "gate-run" smoke. Not too bad a choice for a beginning pipe-smoker perhaps, but he/she will soon aspire to having a better quality tobacco, in my opinion.

Upon trying this brand I enjoyed the taste very much. I did notice, however, that if you were not carefull it would give you quite a bite. After a pouch of this my tongue felt like it was going to fall out of my mouth. It is a good burning tobacco with a very pleasant room note. It was not sticky at all nor was it dry. If you are carefull you might be able to smoke this on a regular basis. I can not! I now mix this 50/50 with Lane Limited(see my other reviews)Cherry Cavendish and this has become my main choice of smoke. Try this mix...It is very enjoyable with NO BITE AT ALL!!! Lots of flavour and an excellent room note.