Nat Sherman 509 Blend (Manhattan Twilight)
(2.64)
Dark cured cavendish. Cool, mild smoke with velvety smooth flavor.
Notes: Zimbabwe blended with black cavendish and mild burley. (Zimbabwe: Virginia flue-cured, burley and Oriental tobacco).
Details
| Brand | Nat Sherman |
| Blended By | |
| Manufactured By | |
| Blend Type | Aromatic |
| Contents | Black Cavendish |
| Flavoring | Other / Misc, Vanilla |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | 50 grams tin, bulk |
| Country | United States |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Mild
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Medium to Strong
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Very Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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2.64 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 25, 2020 | Very Mild | Very Strong | Very Mild | Very Pleasant |
And the prize for sloppiest and gloppiest tobacco of the last millennium goes to....you guessed it, Nat Sherman 509. It’s literally stewing in it’s own juices when you crack the tin, albeit very pleasant smelling juices. It smells great in the tin, vanilla x 10 with some lovely amaretto overtones. It smells great when someone else is smoking it nearby. Unfortunately, it’s just so wet and sticky , any benefits are far outweighed by the tarry havoc this leaves behind in a pipe. It ghosts a pipe...forever. It’s that strongly topped. It lights easier than you’d expect despite not really drying out even when left out all night. It’s incredibly boring to smoke, but leaves a nice smell on your clothes and beard. I keep what’s left around to smell once in a while in the tin, It’s really pleasant. I doubt it will ever dry out, due to what I expect are gratuitous quantities of humectants, not bothering to jar it. There are so many better, less messy alternatives to recommend this one. I’m puzzled how a respectable tobacco company like Nat Sherman gave this the green light. It smells great, really! Just way too wet and messy.
Edit: 12/24/20
‘Twas the night before Christmas...I mixed the ounce I had left of this with 2 oz of my driest jar of Three Sails shag cut and let it sit a few hours. What a pleasant surprise...being so wet, it rehydrated the shag, slowed the burn, and made a very nice straight Virginia vanilla aromatic that practically ignited itself, required ZERO relights and minimal tending. This stuff is too much on it’s own, but makes a wonderful blender. Additional props to Three Sails for being the perfect tobacco for this sort of thing.
2 stars on it’s own, 3 as a blending component
Edit: 12/24/20
‘Twas the night before Christmas...I mixed the ounce I had left of this with 2 oz of my driest jar of Three Sails shag cut and let it sit a few hours. What a pleasant surprise...being so wet, it rehydrated the shag, slowed the burn, and made a very nice straight Virginia vanilla aromatic that practically ignited itself, required ZERO relights and minimal tending. This stuff is too much on it’s own, but makes a wonderful blender. Additional props to Three Sails for being the perfect tobacco for this sort of thing.
2 stars on it’s own, 3 as a blending component
Pipe Used:
Cob
PurchasedFrom:
Tobacco pipes
Age When Smoked:
6 months
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 01, 2019 | Very Mild | Medium to Strong | Mild | Pleasant to Tolerable |
Recently I took a chance on Nat Sherman (they made good cigarettes, so why not), and fell in love with their deep 536, prompting me to pick up the other two available. 314 turned out to be a bust, but 509 I quite enjoyed.
I was not terribly impressed upon opening the tin, it was a sticky topped wad of stewed black cavendish, which the flavor spray-tan didn't even smell that great. Yeah it was sorta vanilla, but was very musty. It did however light without hassle and had a pleasant easy smoke. The low nicotine made successive bowls of this sweet concoction a breeze. It never tasted like much, but certainly had an aromatic angle.
I can understand some of the 1 star reviews from veteran reviewers, for this is more of a "cute" tobacco and quite light for a serious pipe smoker, still it came at the right palate cleansing time for me after some intense Balkans. There are times when light is just right,
I was not terribly impressed upon opening the tin, it was a sticky topped wad of stewed black cavendish, which the flavor spray-tan didn't even smell that great. Yeah it was sorta vanilla, but was very musty. It did however light without hassle and had a pleasant easy smoke. The low nicotine made successive bowls of this sweet concoction a breeze. It never tasted like much, but certainly had an aromatic angle.
I can understand some of the 1 star reviews from veteran reviewers, for this is more of a "cute" tobacco and quite light for a serious pipe smoker, still it came at the right palate cleansing time for me after some intense Balkans. There are times when light is just right,
PurchasedFrom:
pipesandcigars.com
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2015 | Extremely Mild | Medium to Strong | Very Mild | Very Pleasant |
This was the third Nat Sherman tin I purchased and the most bland out of all of them. A simple Black Cavendish that really soaked the paper inside the tin. Now Nat Sherman uses very high quality tobacco and very light PG (If any) but still managed to make a goopy / sticky BC mess with 509. Sure it smells amazing and tastes great when mixed but gee it could use about half the moisture it contains fresh. Vanilla Black Cav, the usual BCA / Captain Black Dark type blend, 2 stars just because it wasn't horrible but the worst of the Nat Sherman tins...
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 01, 2004 | Mild | Mild to Medium | Medium | Very Pleasant |
This offering from Nat Sherman is a pleasant smoke. I tried it in various sizes and types of pipes and found that it behaved the same in all of them. I found it to be far too moist for my taste at first. After a good drying-out, I loaded it up and fired it off.
The casing seems to have diminished considerably in the drying. What was left was a light and ultra-cool smoke. There was not even the slightest hint that this tobacco would ever bite. Sufficiently dried, it lit easily and burned to the bottom without a fuss. It burned so cool in a thin-walled meerschaum that the bowl (in an air conditioned room) barely even got warm. You could easily smoke this all day long, though I suspect it would become boring fairly quickly as it is quite monochromatic. The slightly unpleasant aftertaste I often get from Black Cavendish simply wasn?t there. The room note was quite pleasant and light.
The casing seems to have diminished considerably in the drying. What was left was a light and ultra-cool smoke. There was not even the slightest hint that this tobacco would ever bite. Sufficiently dried, it lit easily and burned to the bottom without a fuss. It burned so cool in a thin-walled meerschaum that the bowl (in an air conditioned room) barely even got warm. You could easily smoke this all day long, though I suspect it would become boring fairly quickly as it is quite monochromatic. The slightly unpleasant aftertaste I often get from Black Cavendish simply wasn?t there. The room note was quite pleasant and light.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 12, 2002 | Very Mild | Extra Strong | Mild | Very Pleasant |
A very good quality black cavendish. Very, very, very heavily cased and extremely moist. Lights well, smokes sweet, gunks up your pipe like no other.
High class captain black.
High class captain black.
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