Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish (Ruby)

I must be honest and state, from the very beginning, that I've never really cared for cherry-flavor tobaccos. I don't mind the fresh fruit, or the flavor in the form of an Icee (anthropomorphic cartoon polar bear included). But not in tobacco. So this review is not entirely fair. However, it may be helpful to someone new who, like me, doesn't care much for excessively artificial flavorings.

This is an extremely chemical-sweet cavendish. It's cloying, goopy, and heavy tasting. It will render your pipes useless, unless the idea is to devote a particular briar to heavy tasting cherry blends.

If you don't mind an aromatic smoke once in a while, but heavily cased tobaccos are not your thing, steer clear from this one. It might have gotten better under the Danish blending techniques, but I wouldn't risk it.

This tobacco was picked up at a grocery check-out lane. I like aromatics & enjoy a number of tobaccos which are "drug store" brands. This isn't one that I enjoyed & I can't recommend it to anyone. It was very bitey & harsh. Hot. The cherry flavor is medicinal, the room note is plastic & has a cheap perfume quality. The aroma is nothing like that of Paladin Black Cherry. There are other low cost aromatics which are much better than this one. I won't need to try it again. 11/17/2011: I have to add that years ago when I offered this to my Dad at deer camp he actually scolded me for letting him try it. And he was a big Captain Black fan.

Fodder for your cob, when you can't get anything else...

This is too expensive for what it is.

I dislike the taste, and it burns too hot. I cannot understand why it is so popular.

Not only I would not recommend it, I would try to steer people away from it.

This was the First pouch of tobacco I ever bought some 8 or 9 years ago . was the only pouch of it I ever bought, by God. I found it ... Off-putting.

Artificial flavor, bites and burns very hot with high humidity. Very bland, has in its favor as it has very good room note.

I'm not a fan of cherry but I found this stuff and thought: why not?

Not as bad as other cherry blends but not good either, I guess I just don't like cherry. I only keep one or two aromatics handy in small amounts because I like Balkans but now and then I enjoy a change of pace. I have pretty much narrowed down the one or two aromatics I might buy once in a blue moon but I like to try new ones now and then.

This blend isn't all that bad but I found the flavor chemical and, after a few bowls, it tastes like lipstick.

If you are a fan of cherry give it a try because it isn't as sickening as other cherry blends. Not for me.

As much as I would like to give this blend a good review I just cant. In theory Borkum cherry sounds good, but there is so much bite that you cant even taste it. It is very dry and produces a smoke that seems to aim straight for your lungs and leave you coughing. It's aroma is tolerable at best, but you can hardly enjoy it due to the smoke disguised razor splitting your tung in two. I would rather quit smoking than ever purchase another package of this intolerable concoction.

Don't know what made me want to try this one - but I sure know why I initiated its procession into some stinking landfill. Doesn't stay lit, but that is a blessing in disguise as this stuff tastes awful and smokes wet, so you would not want to smoke it for too long.

Quality and taste - in a word, fecal!