Borkum Riff Vanilla Cavendish (Sungold)

Where is the vanilla? this one is as tasteless as a bad cigarette.

Living as I now do now in SA Asia and having been a user of English blends for many years I despaired of finding a decent smoke.This is very different to what I am used to and is a much slower smoke(to avoid bite) but having mastered it I would recommend it as a good daytime smoke as long as you are prepared to take you time

This is a kind of tobacco that I usually recommend for beginners, and as I see it is heavily criticized, and so I wouldn't have bought it ever, although some one made me a present composed of 5 pouches of this stuff, I had to give it a try and so I did. I have to say that is not as worse as people say arround, if you like mac barren you just might like this, I got no tongue bite from it, but no great satisfaction either. I won't throw it away though, I'll keep it as reserve for harsh times :).

I was wondering why the guy at the counter had a smile on his face when I bought this. Perhaps I had the word sucker written on my forehead.

I tried one bowl of this and tossed it into the closet. I told my wife not to open the closet door because there was a monster in there that bites. I wasn't kidding.

I enjoyed this tobacco very much. The aroma is great, burns well, delivers a good flavour and aroma throughout the whole bowl and burn to fine ashes... Nothing to complain about here. As a side note, it is one of my wifes favorite room notes as well...

Artificial flavor, bites and burns very hot with high humidity. Very bland, has in its favor as it has very good room note.

If you're looking for Vanilla flavor, go some where else buddy. Aroma like some candy stuff, easy bite. Please try it if your don't want to smoke pipe no more.

This one is very mild in taste, with the vanilla being barely noticable but definately present. I would smoke this over any Mac Baren products any day. I know there are better smokes out there, but this isn't one of the worst I've tried.

In my opinion, this tobacco brings to the extreme all the features that I noticed in other Borkum Riff's reviews. Vanilla taste is not as strong as in its "brother" Mc Baren; you can rather feel a sweet-sugar taste as in a grandmother cake. The sweet smoke is always coupled with a rather bitter after-taste; that sometimes gets even stronger than the main bouquet. Burley is present and stingy to the point that sometimes the smokes becomes really unpleasant. This is one of the worst vanilla tobaccos I ever tried. Probably I wasn't able to understand it, but for sure I will not buy it again.