Mac Baren 7 Seas Red Blend

This isn't your grandpa's cherry. It's a more tart tasting wild cherry flavour instead of the ever popular sweet marachino cherry flavouring. Definately a change of pace for the flavour. As with a lot of MacB blends it was a bit on the moist side in the tin. It packed wonderfully and burnt very well however. The wild cherries flavouring came through at just the right amount. Not overly powerful or completely unnoticed. Didn't get any tongue bite. Just a wonderful change of pace from the usual cherry blend. A good anytime smoke that should please both you and the Mrs.

I'll keep this short and sweet. Upon opening the tin, you get very lovely notes of berries. I didn't detect anything I would classify as cherry however, more of a tart cranberry smell to be honest. The moisture content straight out of the tin is really quite dry for an aromatic, but I let it dry on a paper towel for 15 minutes before packing my corncob, using Frank's method. After having done the charring light and 2 more lights with a gentle tampering between them, the first thing I noticed was a buttery pancake syrup kind of taste with some tart berry flavour making a subtle appearance on the middle of the tongue. I had no issues with bite or having to relight the tobacco again until the end of the bowl. It burned very clean and dry for an aromatic. It had a mild but assertive tobacco flavour throughout the bowl, and the sweet buttery pancake syrup flavour remained consistent throughout the entire bowl. Smoking this blend slowly will allow for the tasty underlying flavours to come through. All in all, I recommend this tobacco. It is a very solid, beautifully burning high quality aromatic that will please the crowds as well as your sweet tooth. Happy smoking!

I have a huge amount of respect for this Seven Seas range. What I am now calling the UK version of Captain Black.

Be interesting if CB do a cherry...

Cherry blends can be ghastly.

They range from the strong, harsh and hideous like Borkum Riff to the insipid and indigestion-inducing of Gawiths' Cherry.

This is somewhere in between I suppose. It has the usual fruity pouch aroma you'd expect and the first draw promises much.

The taste lingers throughout but it's an absolute sod to keep lit so it ends up getting a little sour.

I had no comment on the room note which surprised me.

Certainly well worth trying if cherry's your thing and definitely worth having in your collection. The best cherry I've tried so far.

If you want to smoke your tobacco and taste full-on turbo in-your-face cherry this probably isn't your blend. If you want a mild tobacco with a little cherry hanging out in the background then go at it. Stays lit, no bite, but kinda boring.

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Came back to this after a while using a larger bowl... was able to taste the sweetness evolve into a very tasty nutty flavor. Not as bad as I thought. Bumpin this up a star....

This is the tobacco for a daily routine, but absolutely not for the heavy aromatic lovers. In fact you can barely notice any cherry. The pack contains what is says, virginia, burley, and some cavendish, quite dry on first sight. The smell of when opening the pack is weak, some tea-ish fruity thing, but not that overwhelming like with some other aromatics I used to smoke. Burns nice, and surprisingly long, with a massive amount of smoke, and without any bite on the tongue. On the negative side the taste is quite uninteresting and flat, the "just fire up a pipe" type. I put recommended here for the nice light aroma, the long burn and the smoke, plus the pricetag. Most reviewers will find this flat and will not recommend it I assume.

When I smoke an aro, I want to be able to notice the tobacco. They don't have to be front and center, but I do want to taste them. This blend doesn't disappoint in that respect. The burley is there intermittently, and the VA provides a solid base for the cherry flavor, which isn't overpowering. As stated in other reviews, it's more of a wild cherry vs cough syrup cherry flavor. Is a bit moist in the tin, but burns well. Flavor and room note are equally pleasant. I found it better suited to a larger bowl, but is good in any size. It's worth trying.

This is a very nice smoke, I get a mild tartness and a very subtle cherry flavor. By subtle I don’t mean that the cherry isn’t prominent, rather the cherry flavor is very present in every puff, it’s just very subdued, which I very much appreciate. I also taste a good base tobacco flavor that gives the blend a nice body, by this I mean the taste isn’t just cherry, it’s cherry-tobacco, which is as it should be. I recommend this to anyone who wants a lightly sweet, great room note tobacco that will please you and those around you.

Mac does subtle and complex blends for a reasonable price. To my taste Mac 7 Seas sinks the Captain on all the blends. I agree with gunner525, this is not your usual cherry. BTW used a Savinelli RomaKS with a balsa filter. Too cheap to order balsa filters from them so I carved some myself from some balsa I got on Amazon. That’s about a lifetime supply for under $10. I do believe the wood cuts the bite and damp.