Borkum Riff Special Mixture No.8
(2.41)
Borkum Riff Special Mixture No. 8 is a blend of more than ten exceptional tobaccos that make for a product with a good range of colours. The rich and satisfying smoking experience is further underscored by its agreeable bouquet and complex aroma with distinct vanilla notes.
Details
| Brand | Borkum Riff |
| Blended By | Swedish Match |
| Manufactured By | Skandinavian Tobacco Group |
| Blend Type | Aromatic |
| Contents | Black Cavendish, Burley, Cavendish, Kentucky, Maryland, Oriental/Turkish, Virginia |
| Flavoring | Vanilla |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | 50 grams pouch |
| Country | Denmark |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Mild
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Medium
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Very Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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2.41 / 4
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Reviews
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| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 02, 2015 | Mild | Extra Strong | Overwhelming | Pleasant |
I received a pouch of this as part of a raffle lot that I won at the 2015 NASPC show in Columbus. I am glad that I did not spend money on it.
The description of this tobacco at the top of the page is completely different than what is printed on the pouch. The pouch description is: "The Special No. 8 recipe consists of 40% Black Cavendish from Africa and Argentina which is mixed with 60% Virginia from Brazil and Europe. Flavour: Hints of nuts and vanilla."
This blend is absolutely horrid and I would not make my worst enemy smoke this stuff. The pouch aroma smells nothing of vanilla. All you get is a very sweet smell. Honey-like, but sweeter. Upon lighting, all you get is sweet. As I smoked it, all I could taste was extreme sweetness. There was no flavor to describe, just the intense taste sensation of sweet Imagine a taste even more intensely sweet than putting a teaspoon of sugar on your tongue. Absolutely no tobacco taste could be detected. I tried to cleanse my mouth of the sweetness with mouthwash and a strong Latakia blend with no success. This blend could contain cat feces and you would not be able to tell.
The description of this tobacco at the top of the page is completely different than what is printed on the pouch. The pouch description is: "The Special No. 8 recipe consists of 40% Black Cavendish from Africa and Argentina which is mixed with 60% Virginia from Brazil and Europe. Flavour: Hints of nuts and vanilla."
This blend is absolutely horrid and I would not make my worst enemy smoke this stuff. The pouch aroma smells nothing of vanilla. All you get is a very sweet smell. Honey-like, but sweeter. Upon lighting, all you get is sweet. As I smoked it, all I could taste was extreme sweetness. There was no flavor to describe, just the intense taste sensation of sweet Imagine a taste even more intensely sweet than putting a teaspoon of sugar on your tongue. Absolutely no tobacco taste could be detected. I tried to cleanse my mouth of the sweetness with mouthwash and a strong Latakia blend with no success. This blend could contain cat feces and you would not be able to tell.
Pipe Used:
Cob
PurchasedFrom:
2015 NASPC show raffle prize
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 08, 2017 | Very Mild | Mild to Medium | Very Mild | Tolerable to Strong |
Not an exception to B.Riff style.same bad as all other blends i tried from this brand.chemical smell and flavour,no tobacco taste,lots of tongue bite,moisture and dumbness at the end of the bowl.burns so hot i couldn't touch my pipe.the nicotine level is low.the room note was something between cheap aroma and burning grass.another disappointment forr me.NOT RECOMMENDED!
Age When Smoked:
When opened
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2010 | Mild | Mild | Very Mild | Very Pleasant |
Not so readily available in the UK, I actually got a sample 3g sachet of No.8 as an unexpected freebie with a tin of Japanese Asuka. A bit of a one-shot taster, for sure, but I just about managed to stretch it to two pipes for reviewing purposes.
The contents list reads like a dream-team of tobaccos and although visually comparable with a bog-standard cavendish, the aroma is deep and sensually alive. It makes for an interesting marriage of cherry stones, vanilla, and seasoned, dried apples - and yet it remains delicately smoky. I have to say that it's pretty evocative of seasonal niche tobaccos, and as such, reminds me of Peterson's Christmas 2009 mixture.
Much like Peterson's offering, the taste of No.8 fell way, way short of expectation: light on flavour; airy; papery - all rather insipid, really. It certainly would be a crime to cough up £8.50 of hard-earned English Sterling for a full tin. Even the Queen would appear extra-miserable on the front of the £10 note you'd have to hand over.
That said, It did scrape back kudos with a pleasing side stream of baked fruit and vanilla, but it was at messy odds with that horrendously bland taste. By the mid-bowl, it was smoking dry, with a toasty finish. And by 'dry' I don't mean dry as in the moisture content, but dry like a wine, which was an interesting positive to take from the experience. However, there was still time for a touch of chemically-induced tongue bite, which made things a little too prickly for comfort. When it came to my second pipe, things faired a little better - leading to my recommendation that you smoke this in nothing bigger than a medium sized bowl.
If 2 stars are my median, Borkum Riff Special Reserve No.8 is definitely a sub-par tobacco. It is neither delightful, nor offensive. It just is; propping up the blander end of the commercial market.
1.7 stars
The contents list reads like a dream-team of tobaccos and although visually comparable with a bog-standard cavendish, the aroma is deep and sensually alive. It makes for an interesting marriage of cherry stones, vanilla, and seasoned, dried apples - and yet it remains delicately smoky. I have to say that it's pretty evocative of seasonal niche tobaccos, and as such, reminds me of Peterson's Christmas 2009 mixture.
Much like Peterson's offering, the taste of No.8 fell way, way short of expectation: light on flavour; airy; papery - all rather insipid, really. It certainly would be a crime to cough up £8.50 of hard-earned English Sterling for a full tin. Even the Queen would appear extra-miserable on the front of the £10 note you'd have to hand over.
That said, It did scrape back kudos with a pleasing side stream of baked fruit and vanilla, but it was at messy odds with that horrendously bland taste. By the mid-bowl, it was smoking dry, with a toasty finish. And by 'dry' I don't mean dry as in the moisture content, but dry like a wine, which was an interesting positive to take from the experience. However, there was still time for a touch of chemically-induced tongue bite, which made things a little too prickly for comfort. When it came to my second pipe, things faired a little better - leading to my recommendation that you smoke this in nothing bigger than a medium sized bowl.
If 2 stars are my median, Borkum Riff Special Reserve No.8 is definitely a sub-par tobacco. It is neither delightful, nor offensive. It just is; propping up the blander end of the commercial market.
1.7 stars
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Apr 23, 2014 | Mild | Medium | Mild | Pleasant |
Bought in 2014 in a gas station drugstore in Switzerland, at cheap average price for common drugstore tobaccoes. At opening the scent was very good (in the aro way), but the bad news were that was not correctly sealed (tobacco everywhere in the seal means NOT sealed at all!) and so totally dry. Unsmokable. After some days wetting to save the pouch, I tryed it.
Aroma: an aro tobacco, but not really too much, pleasant sweet and nut notes, with only a very little bit of vanilla.
Taste: not really good, especially at the end of the bowl. Some biting too.
Room note: the best of this tobacco, pleasant, delicate and discrete.
Burning: at first too dry, after maybe too wet, finally ok, but it burns not well at any time...
Briars: surely not the EM dedicated, even if it does not leave a real ghost scent.
Well, this is not a fully affordable review, this tobacco, as I buyed, deserves less than 1star, but I can imagine it could be only better (a lot) if well packed and preserved... room note is pretty good, and so I'll give him one star and half, but I think I'll never buy again... Sorry.
Aroma: an aro tobacco, but not really too much, pleasant sweet and nut notes, with only a very little bit of vanilla.
Taste: not really good, especially at the end of the bowl. Some biting too.
Room note: the best of this tobacco, pleasant, delicate and discrete.
Burning: at first too dry, after maybe too wet, finally ok, but it burns not well at any time...
Briars: surely not the EM dedicated, even if it does not leave a real ghost scent.
Well, this is not a fully affordable review, this tobacco, as I buyed, deserves less than 1star, but I can imagine it could be only better (a lot) if well packed and preserved... room note is pretty good, and so I'll give him one star and half, but I think I'll never buy again... Sorry.
PurchasedFrom:
drugstore, Switzerland
Age When Smoked:
unknown
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