Borkum Riff Ultra Light

This is a mixture of Gold Virginia and Burley Tobaccos, treated in order to obtain a mixture with very low ammount of Nicotine. Is a ultra mild tobacco, very good for begginers, for people thart desire, want or need a low Nicotine Tobacco. Is also excelent for making personal mixtures, because it is inexpensive and "neutral", useful for reduce Tobaccos thar were considered "too strong" by the smoker. Also, Pipe experts that like neutral tobaccos may apreciate this. Their flavour ant taste? Very Mild, flavour and taste of... Tobacco... Recommended.

Some Mac Baren (none of the tinned stuff!), Gawith, Middleton, and Borkum Riff are about the only tobacco brands you can now find down here in Mexico. For some this may seem as a pretty good tobacco range; be that as it may, the fact is that every time I visit my tobacconist I invariably remember that Stephen Stills' song: ?...and if you can?t be with the one you love, love the one you?re with?.

Ultra Light is indeed a very mild tobacco and, in my view, it?s also a very tasty aromatic. It has a refined chocolate/vanilla aroma, yet it also has a defined tobacco flavor. This is one of the few Borkum Riffs that doesn?t bite (Champagne being the other). Since the blending of this brand moved to Denmark, I find its tobaccos less chemical in taste and structure. I remember the old Ultra Light version as a non entity. Today, the Danish version seems to me very much alive. I can taste the Burleys quite distinctively; the Cavendish and Virginia are also there, providing support and giving it enough depth to make it an interesting smoke (at least a more interesting one than its previous German rendering).

The blend is not at all goopy or excessively moist. It?s easy to pack, and after a couple of lights it gets going on pretty well. As always, the slower the rhythm of your puffing the more you?ll enjoy the flavors of this or any other tobacco. Room aroma seems to be very pleasant. I don?t know if the new Danish blenders case or top the leaf, but even when the aroma seems to be rather potent it doesn?t occlude the tobacco-smoking sensation.

Although this is by no means a favorite of mine (I much more prefer Mac Baren?s Mixture Modern or BR?s Champagne or Scandinavian), I?ve learned to follow good ol? Stephen Still?s advice. Every now and then, this tobacco can be a delight.

A very good choice for the beginning piper. In my area this stuff sells for a premium price. About $5.00 a pouch. For that price you can get some really good tobacco when you graduate to the next level.

This was the ulra light blend that I thought was the original. The tobacco was a ribbon cut that burned a little warm. The tobacco smelled and tasted more like a chocolate than being vanilla.I did enjoy it though and am eager about buying the original to compare if there has been any changes.

Recommended for those, like me, that doesn't like cigarette taste after smoking a bowl. The problem is that it is tasteless. It bites though. Be careful.

Beginners will enjoy it.

Not being a fan of the Borkum Riff line of tobacco products, I decided to try this on a whim and was pleasantly surprised. In fact, I will purchase it again.

The tobacco is somewhat dry in the pouch and packs easily. Lighting is easy as well. being mildly sweet and aromatic, it still holds a considerable amount of real tobacco flavor. It tastes great and is of little threat of bite to the experienced smoker.

It doesn't goop up the heel of the pipe and provides for a very enjoyable smoke. It's well worth a try.

it was extremely dry in the pouch and was compressed into a brick i had to break up. very finr ribbons. almost NO fines in it unlike my pouches of cherry liqueur. very pleasent smell in the pouch. the room note was wonderful and only started to fade in the last 1/4 of the bowl. very little tongue bite until the verry end. my smoke started out with very little flavor but turned into a mild pleasant vanilla flavor, but aftera few puffs i could only taste it in my mouth, the smoke coming out of my pipes stem was just hot air, no flavor.

i used mt cherry liqueur pipe. did not clean it out or anyhing. the fine ribbon cut packed very well and burned along time. and it burned away, when i dumped it out i dont think i had a 1/10 of my bowl come out as ash. And surprisingly it smoked COOL, i just puffed and puffed, sucking as hard as i could and i never got hot, must be the large amount of virginia in it maybe. slightly hard to ignite but it did NOT condense at all.

If you live in a small town in the mountains, this may be the best tobacco you can find unless you fancy Carter Hall. We've fallen on hard times. After a 25 year hiatus, I returned to pipe smoking only to discover that once common Amphora and Flying Dutchman no longer exist on the shelves at the corner grocery, and tobacco shops are an endangered species. The drugstore doesn't sell tobacco. It isn't healthy, dontcha know. So, back to the subject at hand, Borkum Riff Ultralight. The blend is touted as a Virginia-Burley mix. It has a pleasant vanilla smell which improves after the pouch has been open for awhile, and it's not too wet. My wife likes the smell. Ultralight packs easily and burns well all the way to the bottom of the bowl. A peculiar, almond like smell wafts up about 1/3 to 1/2 way down, but this is momentary and improves immediately. There is a bit of tongue bite, but if smoked slowly, it's not too bad. It seems to do well in a medium sized bowl. If you have been smoking cheap cigars and are just switching to a pipe, try this. It isn't a real satisfying smoke. For some reason I always wonder about additives when I smoke this. To you accomplished connoisseurs - hey, I'm a desperate man! But help is near at hand...my email order of Frog Morton On The Town and MacBaren's Golden Extra is on its way!