Hearth & Home Berry Nice

The tin note is pleasant, sweet. The cut is rather chunky. I had a hard time lighting, but once lit it behaved well. A pleasant taste of hard to define which berries. Reminds me of port wine flavored cigars that a friend brought from Quebec. Burns to a fine white ash, nice amounts of smoke. If you have been put off by sticky, or artificial tasting aromatics, you should try this before writing aros off. This blend should please bystanders. No tongue bite. Will probably buy more.

This tobacco was a pleasant surprise for me. I generally like Cavendish blends flavored with some sort of goop, vanilla being a favorite, in blends such as McClelland's Vanilla Ice. I didn't know if I would enjoy a Berry/Cavendish mixture, but this one is excellent. A nice, smooth, berry flavored smoke. Nice for a change. As a chocolate ice cream lover, once in a while I enjoy some strawberry, especially in the summer. Same here. For me, a nice smoke, once in a while. It gets a 4.

Let me arrive by mentioning that I'm taking pleasure in a bowl of this blend as I type. Perhaps THE most sumptuous blend I've ever indulged in; it won me over as soon as I busted the seal on the tin. I picked up a sample of this at a recent pipe show; delivered to me by the noble folks at pipesandcigars.com. The blend is perfect for anyone with a head full of sweet teeth; like myself; a SUPER aromatic, if you will. The aroma from the opened tin will perfume your living space almost instantly; BEFORE you set it on fire in a pipe. The taste that comes along with each draw... is like having a glass of tropical fruit juice; one has to try and remember that he/she is smoking. This blend is a cinch to pack for it trickles down into the pipe... like it's anxious to be cremated almost.

It's been granted my passage and... it has made it to the foremost of my personal favorites list; first class.

Any blend that the iconic Russ Ouellette concocts in his mixing parlors at the Habana tobac emporium in Albany, New York has to be taken seriously - this one further enhances his reputation. This is a sweet, almost sugary aro that captivates pipeful after pipeful. I am so tired of fellow scribes who try a bowl or maybe two of a sweet aromatic and their first reaction is: let's trash it! Berry Nice has a delightfully soapy but fragrant topping taste that resembles the much maligned standard (among my fellow reviewers) Mixture 79 - hope this blend like 79 is as resilient. Fact is this is unusually "good stuff" as the advertisement for Snapple says. Smoke it in a hand carved Rhamnus wood pipe you can still buy for cheap from the People's Republic of China on E-Bay. This rough hewn Rhamnus is dedicated strictly to Berry Nice and the flavour continues to flourish. The pipe and leaf combination are complimentary. A heavenly choice especially during summer heat wave weather or for that warm vacation spot. Happy hunting!