Borkum Riff Black Cavendish

The flavors of chocolate and caramel were mostly what was obvious to me. I did get a little burley taste, and because I was looking hard for it, a hint of Kentucky. I also got some vanilla from the black cavendish. But, I had the usual bite problem that I almost always encounter with Borkum Riff products. I smoke at a very moderate rate, so the problem lies not with my technique, but in the product itself. Sipped very slowly, you'll avoid much of the bite, but it's really not worth the work. There's much better and easier smoking blends in this genre. Burns moderately well. Has little nicotine.

-JimInks

After almost 2 years of pipe smoking i look the past and i wonder...how was i able to smoke this blend???maybe because i wasn't experienced enough and the smell of the tin when opened was something good between chocolate ,vanilla and nuts..the blend moisture is high.packs ok and needs effort to light..several relights are needed while smoking.while burning the only tobacco flavour is some nuts from the burley..i didn't get any Kentucky flavours..i got only a bad mix of the topping flavours wich bites a lot...the nicoltine level is low.the room note is somehow pleasant compared to other B.riff blends.the moisture while burning is high ,accompanied by lots of dumbness.another disappointment..not recommended for consumption.

I tasted some bad tobacco in my life, but this is in the top two, or three, but with an added cheap perfume taste added just for good measure, to really kick it in your balls and let you learn a lesson:

"You get what you pay for, bud."

Besides that, it made me sick after a few puffers, was only 1/3rd into the bowl before i just threw it out.

Additionally, as if it wasnt bad enough, the gut started to feel sick an hour or two afterwards, and for kickers, the room note is a cheap machine-rolled cigarillo sprayed with Febreeze, so bad that you gotta try hard to find ones this bad, looking for em at cheap gas stations you wouldnt refuel your car at.

Oh, and did i mention the stench of the ash is horrendous, of which now I have to clear my pipe of.

Cheers.

Never pay less rhan 13$ per bag is definitely a good start.

Hellish; ghastly; bad beyond badness - it'll leave your tongue a palpitating blackened stump. Another truly revolting offering from Borkum Riff, How DO they do it? It tastes all right, in a sense, but it burns so hot and so quickly that it seems almost to have been devised as an instrument of torture. '[A] premium quality tobacco'? I don't think so. Avoid this, and live out the remainder of your days with functioning taste buds.

I really wish I would like this tobacco, but it was not like that.

Some mention that this is the best of the brand, or at least the least worse. But it does not seem to be the case.

The problem is simple, tongue bite no matter how I smoke it, it always bites.

Liquorish on the tounge with plenty of tounge bite. This is an extraordinarily "light" flavoured tobacco. Zero nicotine hit & it's hard to see past the liquorice flavour on the tip of my tounge. I mixed it 50/50 with a stronger blend that helped a little but not a lottle.

This may be the perfect smoke for some that enjoy liquorish and a light as a feather smoke. It smokes quick and came quite dry in the pouch. If it's your cuppa tea it may be a 3 star but personally I give it 2. I shan't give it one because it's not intolerable & I'll save my 1 star reviews for scathing reviews of the most hatfilled tobaccos.

I had previously blended vanilla cavendish with non aromatics 30/70 with great results and was keen to try black cavendish.

It may have it's place to lighten something like rope however it's not an "album" i will be purchasing again.

Edit ----- After multiple days of tounge bite post smoking this mild monstrosity I'm changing my review to 1 star.

I see bad review from Pipestuds and Jimlink but I want be fair and no be prejudice this tobaccos. I want keep open my tongue to her. The good reviewer need does that.

She start surprise good. She give truffle, vanilla, cherry, bourbon, wood note. I like she start good.

But I push her a little and she become aggressivity. So I need removes star from her. Then she bite this tongues. I needs to take out other star from her for this. Then she give strong bitter note. Bad bitter no good bitter. So I needs take out star out from her. Bitter note stay in this tongue after I smoking her.

She give good nic hit job so I give her half star.

One and half star round to one.

Really wanted to like this as it was my brand back in the 70's but it just comes up short on flavor and has a bite that I don't remember it having back then. So many better smokes out there today. Tried rum as well as original and all left me unhappy.

The first puff of the first bowl tasted ever so slightly of nougat with a slight nuttiness. I have now been through two pouches but ever since the first puff from the first bowl I have been unable to taste anything but extremely poor quality slightly bitter prison scrag.

(Prison scrag is the tobacco New Zealand prisoners used to get years ago which consisted of the dust swept off the cigarette factory floor).

Like most of the Borkum line, it probably would have been ok for drug store tobacco if Borkum actually put some flavor in it - putting an unopened bottle of flavoring in the same room as the tobacco does not count.

Also, like other Borkum blends, it has a lot of sticks in it.

If like me you have a limited choice of pipe tobacco other than Borkum, get the Vanilla cavendish or the Cherry cavendish.