Gatlin-Burlier Cade's Cove Cavendish

Plain vanilla! Just another vanilla ribbon cut blend. Did smell wonderful in the room though. Will someone tell me when and why blenders started to put vanilla in everything? While is does have a great aroma, and once you are halfway down it is creamy and well...vanilla. It burns well but it left a really sticky gunk in my pipe that I will have to clean out or everything will taste like...vanilla.

This is NOT 1Q. I am sitting looking at both of them. 1Q is straight burley with a little...vanilla. Same color, and is a cut much like PA. This cavendish is light and dark and ribbon cut and just tastes like...vanilla. If you like...vanilla, you might like it but buy plenty of pipe cleaners!

My 1st tobacco and pipe that was not drugstore blend. After a few years I started smoking mostly VA/PER and some english but stil enjoy this on a weekly basis. Great with a little perique.Great staff still smoke pipe Richard sold me and have several more they're all great smokes.

I had the distinct pleasure of visiting the folks at the Gatlin-Burlier for the first time last Christmas and I was welcomed like an old friend. The folks there are extremely friendly and make you feel quite at home. As an aside, their house pipes are of an exceptional quality - quite the good value.

On to the tobacco: Like all their blends, CCC, has an excellent burn quality especially for an aromatic. The blend is too sweet for my taste but if that's what your after, then this blend is up your alley.

IQ by another name? I'm not sure exactly, but with a description of fire-cured, it is very similar in looks, taste and appearance. That's okay though, it's a good smoke and one that I go back to again and again when I'm looking for something sweet. If you like to experiment, take a pinch of Penzance or some other heavy latakia blend and mix it into the bowl. The flavors will really pop out at you.

There are no fine tobacconists near my home. We have a couple of shopping mall tobacconists within driving range. But these shops employ college kids who run the place as a typical retail establishment. When you talk to these people, you had better say "cigar, pipe tobacco, etc. Because if you say Latakia, burley, etc you will get nothing but a blank stare. The tobacco isn't the highest quality there either. So I buy most of my tobacco online. I was searching the internet for a new tobacconist when I came across the Gatlin-Burlier. I had used Tobaccodirect, Just for Him, and other well known tobacconists in the past, but this was a shop I have visited once. I bought a sampler with 3 blends, incuding Cades Cove Cavendish. When I opened the bag, the aroma was more candy than tobacco. It was overly moist but the tobacco looked nice. It packed easily. It took a while to light, but once it was lit it stayed lit throughout the whole smoke. The taste was incredible. The furst puff was flavorful with a sweetness that only enhanced the flavor of the tobacco. Later, the sweetness gave way to a spiciness that resembled a Jalapeno's heat (the nicotene maybe??). When the spiciness comes, the bowl seems to become wet with a syrup-y sweet/spicy liquid that tends to gurgle in the bottom of the pipe. Maybe my mouth is just watering a little too much at the tobacco's flavor, but I think it's more likely the flavoring (anyone else experience this?). It's happened every time I have smoked this blend. Therefore, I have begun smoking this with a filter pipe to block the liquid from travelling down the pipe stem and becoming a problem. This is an impressive aromatic with a wonderful room note. It's one of only about 3 blends that I am allowed to smoke in the house. My wife loves it. I love it. I will be buying this in bulk soon.

Not much can be added about this tobacco that wasn?t previously covered by the other fine reviewers here. What I would like to comment on is how I came to be introduced to this wonderful smoke. While on vacation in Gatlinburg Tennessee I set out to only do two things. After living through a day of skiing I proceeded to find the Tobacco Shop I had researched on-line ?The Gatlin-Burlier? www.gatlinburlier.com This was to be my vacation, and what a vacation it was!

I would highly recommend anyone venturing that way to pay a visit to this store. After smoking a few suggested bowls with the manager Richard and talking tobacco endlessly I walked away with several NEW BLENDS of tobaccos (my idea of souvenirs), a far greater knowledge of the Tobacco world, and a new friend.

Four Stars to Richard and the Gatlin-Burlier!

Although I live almost exclusively on Balkans and Orientals, when I have a yet for something aromatic, I go to this. All the Burlier blends, whether aromatic or natural, are comprised of qualit leaf. While the blend is aromatic, it is not one of the overly aromatic, slightly chemical types, as are popular on the continent. This is a mild homey type that smells like cookies. The taste is sweet and smells like the rich earthy tobacco barns of my youth. If you are in Gatlinburg TN ever, look up the Gatlinburlier. They have many more blends than are here and they are the friendliest pipe store staff I have run across on two continents.

This one is true to it's description. It's appreciated by non-smokers (sweet smell) and burns pretty well. It can be a bit moist towards the bottom of the pipe, but I expected that. It's economical and although it's not my favorite, I have several friends that will smoke nothing else and order it in the 5 lb. bag!

IMO this is one of those "beginner" blends. It's a fairly equal combination of medium brown ribbon cut, and broken black cavendish. The package aroma - an artificially sweet, flowery/fruity, cotton candy concoction- could well induce a diabetic coma. On the plus side, it packs nicely, but arrives a little on the moist side.

The moment of truth: Burns OK, considering the moisture level, and stays lit as well as any other aromatic. Surprisingly it smokes on the cool side, and has a fairly full flavor for such a mild smoke. But that flavor----bubble gum/cotton candy/Kero syrup----if you're looking for tobacco taste, don't look here! And don't smoke this in your best pipe either ( the taste may haunt you forever ).

Room note: My ten year old son (sugar junkie), thought it was great. Enough said!

This might be good for a beginner, because of it's easy smoking traits, but it is certainly not my cup of tea.