Boswell Pipes & Tobacco Pennsylvania Dutch Treat

While I have never been a fan of cherry tobaccos, this blend would be the exception. Don't think for a minute that this is sickeningly sweet and wet like Paladin, just the opposite. A very pleasant and mild cherry flavor with wonderful burning qualities, I would definitely recommend this blend. This is the only cherry flavored pipe tobacco in my rotation, and deservedly so.

"Toasted marshmallows" in the room note right off the bat so says the wife. Her words, not mine. In my house, you can't start much better than that, since she can be critical at times. The cherry flavor has been well covered and is the best that I've come across. The burley is the star here with tones of almond. Makes perfect sense, because I like both cherry and burley a lot. Throw in some cavendish and Voila! Smells great, packs itself, smokes itself, tastes great, feels great. What more do you want? I guess if I had to come up with something, I wouldn't mind a little more strength and a little less gurgle, but it's an aromatic. As a skeptic of most aromatics, I'll take it. The quintessential social smoke if you don't want to offend any of the naysayers because it smells great with a soft and pleasant room note. The ace in my indoor aromatic dedicated Peterson Bent Dog, no question about it. 3.8

I will start with a query, which I will repeat for all Boswell tobaccos: Even though I have left them open for 2 months, they haven't dried out at all.

The flavor is full and rich produced by the Cavendish and Burley. This tobacco has a scent of cherry as well. Less aromatic and heavier than Christmas Cookie and Sweet Dreams, but somehow far-off from my own tastes. I want to thank, a lot, my friend “Nektarios” for gifting me these 5 Boswell tobaccos in order to try them out.

I don't know why but this blend just doesn't do it for me. I've tried hard to like it and tried to make it work in a few different pipes. I am a fan and big user of aromatics, but no dice here. This blend tends to smoke hot, although it doesn't really bite much. The cherry seems very artificial, blatantly added onto very high quality tobacco. Room note is wonderful...but I can't help feeling like I'm smoking a cherry tidy-bowl VaPer. Careful what you wish for? P&W Cherry Cavendish, despite being a much more mild cherry flavor, worked much better for me in this slot. Two stars.

I have been trying to like this aromatic for two years. It just isn't making it for me. If you are looking for a good high quality cherry try 4Noggins catamount much better all around

J.M. Boswell and his family have operated a well known pipe and tobacco shop in Chambersburg, PA for the last 31 years. They are well known for economical pipes that smoke like champs. I have three Boswells myself and can attest to their quality. Fortunately for us, J.M. also blends his own tobaccos. I've smoked eight different Boswell blends and have enjoyed them all.

Pennsylvania Dutch Treat right now is my favorite aromatic pipe tobacco, the one I prefer to all others. Strong words I know, but this blend just seems to have it all. First off, PDT is not a goopy wet aromatic like many of the breed. It will not foul your pipe or inhabit it with "ghosts" that will affect the taste of other blends. It loads and lights easily and has the best burn characteristics of any aromatic I've ever smoked. Fact is, it's better than many tobaccos of any type.

It's topping has a mild cherry flavor that comes out as a very pleasant sweet taste that is not syrupy or overly sweet. There's a lot of burley tobacco in PDT and you can taste it behind the casing, particularly in the second half of the bowl. It's apparent that quality tobaccos have been used to formulate this blend. It all burns down to fine ash with almost no dottle.

Scores for Pennsylvania Dutch Treat: Taste- 17 out of 20; lighting and burn- 9 out of 10; value- 8 of 10. 34 points gets PDT a very nice **** rating. Try this tobacco, aromatic fans!

My wife loves this one. She doesn't mind the room note of most of my tobacco choices, but every time I smoke this she comments on how much she likes it. The chocolate tastes similar to Lane BCA. Like all of the aromatic blends I've tried by them the mechanics are perfect and it has no bite. One of the better cherry tobaccos out there in my opinion.

I’ll qualify that I am a novice tobacco pipe smoker.

Never smoked anything till now (mid 50s) and in selecting my first blends I went with aromatics and straight Virginians, trying to discern taste.

I guess I was expecting when they say an aro tastes like vanilla, that will be the predominant flavor, but I have found the tobacco taste dominates most aros.

People will say if you don’t want to taste tobacco don’t smoke, but I keep hoping to find that perfect blend that lets me enjoy the taste as advertised, predominately, and the relaxing benefits of sitting and reflecting with a pipe.

All said, to date, in my limited experience, PDT comes closest to meeting my expectations. Maybe I am biased because of my Dutch heritage, but for me, it is the first blend where, at times, the flavor comes through and I can taste hints of Cocco and more peripheral cherry.

The burn is easy, the room note beautiful, if I could just taste more it would be a home run.

I would absolutely recommend, as it may just be me. I don’t have the most discerning palate, but I’m hoping that’s not a requirement to finding that perfect aro.

Still searching for that perfect blend that tastes as good as it smells.

I was very excited to have received this tobacco after strong recommendations from a few people. When the pouch was opened the aroma was nice and the appearance was nice. I am really particular about cleaning my pipe and packing it and especially now with a blend new to me that I was trying. Well, the anticipation brought me to my first disappointing blend from Boswell. After lighting the aroma was weak and the taste, well, it had none. I smoked about half and stopped. When I removed the tobacco the bottom of the bowl was very wet. I was willing to accept that perhaps it was I not doing something correct. I went thru another pipe cleaning and packing but it added nothing better again. I am a Boswell fan and will continue to be so but the hype for this one vs my experience was a let down. Perhaps someone trying pipe tobacco for the first time would enjoy it. I will hold on to it and hopefully pass it on to someone in the future.