Mac Baren Cherry Choice

Tobaccos with cherry flavor and aroma are indeed some of the most challenging tobaccos to produce. Perhaps because great care must be taken to ensure that the taste and aroma don't resemble cough syrup. We see that the world of pipe smokers has become divided on these tobaccos.

I have smoked all the tobaccos in the Choice series, and I liked most of them. However, this tobacco doesn't hold a good position for me compared to others. The cherry flavor is overly sharp and intense. A bit of vanilla flavor could have balanced it out.

In my opinion, Amphora Special Reserve No.2 is better than this tobacco and has managed to offer a better cherry flavor.

After consuming a package of this -to be honest the cherry flavor was so repelling- I completely went an other direction away from aromatics. I remeber thinking yet another flavored tobacco by Mac Baren when I bought it, but there is something I didn't like in it. I am not a fan of aromatics but I smoke them now and then, and I know for sure, I wouldn't want to smoke this one again.

I was expecting maybe a little too much from this blend. The pouch aromas is strong with cherry flavor. It's like diving in a syrup almost.

I didn't want to get too influenced by other reviews and tried my best to go at it as neutral as possible.

The packing was easy, the charring as well. It gave a faint but nice smell to the room. As for the taste, well, I was disappointed. It didn't taste at all as it smells. As I am still very new at the pipe hobby I don't want to try and use fancy word and can only say this... I didn't like it.

As I did for other tobaccos I tried before and didn't like at the first bowl, I'll give it another shot in another pipe later and see if anything changed in my taste.

It is always a gamble trying to find a good cherry flavored tobacco. Cherry flavored pipe tobacco is highly sought after beginner pipe smokers. And Mac Baren being one of the most available pipe tobacco in the world, beginners may have had an acquaintance with this, like me. Since this is sold as an aromatic, I will only comment on its aroma. It sucks. The smell is so vulgar and has nothing to do with cherry. The aroma could not be more synthetic. Even Captain Black's cherry is better than this one...

If you're dying for aromatics, maybe you can smoke.

VILE WEED!!! Cherry Choice won't be my choice again.

The second tobacco I put in my pipe after a 7 year hiatus.

Stay away from it.

Reading the description of this blend provided by Mac Baren it was difficult to believe they were describing the tobacco in the bowl of my pipe. Whether it be from the Virginias, or simply the fact that this blends burns very hot, it will bite, so take it easy. The bite was enough for me give this blend a low recommendation, but after the first few puffs during lighting, one can detect a faintly sweet taste of cherry, but after the furnace is fully lit, the smoke takes on a very harsh taste that lasts clear to the bottom of the bowl.

I could be that I haven't tried the right Mac Baren aromatic, but this is third one, and by far the worst of the 3. At least the other 2 didn't burn so hot that it made it difficult to hold on to the bowl. Even though cherry flavored aromatics are not one of my favorites, I've smoked some (Lane and Altadis) that are far superior. There are some that may find this blend to their liking, but I simply can't recommend it.

F. Prefect