Lane Limited Black Cordial

The smooth, creaminess of a fine black cav escorts the sweetness of a medium Virginia through an orchard heavy with ripe black cherries. Wow! Was this delicious. This from a guy not all that fond of fruit-cased tobaccos. Go easy on the pack and plan on frequent, quick relights. Don't huff and puff, but sip it like a fine brandy and you'll enjoy a consistent, creamy, sweet bowl all the way to the bottom. It will ghost a pipe in a New York minute, so I recommend a throw-away cob for the first outing. Room note is fabulous. I tried drying a few bowls which improved the burn characteristics but dulled the flavor. Not worth it. Load up your match case and indulge. Recommended!

Surprisingly, I enjoyed this one despite the overwhelming yummy pouch aroma.

This pouch was given to me with an online order. Not a fan of heavily cased tobaccos, I hesitated a long time before smoking it (and letting it dry properly before).

I'm glad I tried it. I will not smoke regurlarly but I might re-order every once in a while.

If you like aromatics, give this one a try. Smooth, excellent flavor, easy to keep lit, outstanding room note. Smoking a bowl is like eating chocolate followed by a sip of benedictine.

This is a very tasty tobacco. The room smell is just wonderful. I got this as a free sampler in my order from pipesandcigars. It was marked as Altadis Z50 Black Cordial, but appears to be owned by Lane now. I would order more. A bit of a wet bowl cleanup afterwards but thats true of almost all aromatics.

I bought a two ounce sample of this several months ago at Tobacco Trader in West L.A., thinking it was one of their house blends. Since it had been in the store container, it had nicely mellowed. I fired up a bowl in my Barling Sovereign pipe dedicated to aromatics and was immediately impressed with the balance of flavors not too sweet, a hint of berry flavoring (the container said it was flavored with plumb) could definitely taste the Virginias and had a balanced blend of Cavendish to give the smoke a creaminess. Both my wife and son loved the smell, giving this one an A + in the room note department. As I smoked more of this blend in the last couple of months, I found I enjoyed it more and more as the ghost flavors of the other aromatics dissipated in my Barling, tasting a pleasant tang. My neighbors even commented on the great smell of the tobacco. Ran out, went to Tobacco Trader the other day to pick up more and found out it is made by Altadis, which shocked me, because almost all of their blends leave me with tongue bite, have always thought they had bad to mediocre flavor and I avoid them. Not this one! It is actually one of my favorite aromatics, just a step behind Boswells Raspberry Cream. Tobacco, like wine can give you certain prejudice if you know the brand!

This is a very nice sweet aromatic tobacco that faintly reminds me of another Altadis tobacco I like called "Creme Brulee".

I have always had to dry this out some before smoking it, otherwise it is too wet to burn well and will bite pretty hard. When properly dried, this is a wonderfully sweet smoke with a hint of "fruitiness" to it. The pouch aroma is quite similar to the room note.

While not my all-day smoke, I do find myself reaching for this blend quite often. It's sure to please anyone within smelling distance, and when smoked properly, it's sure to please any pipe smoker who likes aromatic tobaccos.

Excellent aromatic with great taste and room note. Dark and moist with a good burn and very little bite, if any. As far as i know, this is currently an Altadis tobacco. Buy it in bulk for practically penies and ounce.

If you want a strong fruity, berry taste in a surprisingly mild aromatic, give this one a try. About the only aromatic blend I've ever liked was, Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic. But the Walter is a Burley blend, and can get a bit warm if puffed too hard. This stuff seems to stay mild, no matter how you smoke it. Surprisingly, with all of the casings in this stuff, it didn't gunk up my pipe, but it does leave it's ghostly flavor, when you load up with something else. I'd recommend dedicating one pipe to this blend. I have a yard pipe, which I smoke anything and everything in, so that's my suggestion for this blend. My wife actually likes the room note of Commonwealth Mixture, over this stuff. And on that note, I can't complain...

This is another tobacco bought at my local tobacco shop. The jar aroma was very nice. The moisture content was a little high, but some drying took care of that. Anyway, on first lighting up the tobacco fills the room with an aroma that should please even the most ardent smoke Nazi. The taste is fruity and the tobacco flavor is sort of an after thought. Well, way after. About midway through the bowl the sweet aroma and flavor bow out quickly. What you're left with is a boring nondescript tobacco. The taste, now, is simply of weak smoke. The aroma is almost nonexistent. This tobacco makes a lot of promises that it can't keep to the end of the bowl. A little more virginia might have helped.