Lane Limited Black Raspberry

This has a wonderful aroma, taste and burns clean and even to the bottom of the bowl. No bite at all and very smooth. No real tobacco flavor though, so its only a treat when the sweet tooth rears its head. A quality aeromatic at a great price. Definately a good choice for beggining pipe smokers.

I just tried this and enjoyed it. I smoked two bowls back to back and it didnt bite at all! I didnt even mind the flavoring. The only thing is that it got very, very goopy and wet a little past the half way point in the bowl. All I heard was gurgle and didnt finish it. If you dried it out, that may fix the problem. Again, I loved that fact that there was no bite and a pleasant room note. May not buy large amounts on a regular basis, but would never turn it away if offered. An EXCELLENT beginner tobacco.

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New notes: Drying out does a great job on fixing the wetness, but mostly I have just smoked this in a filtered pipe and that takes care of the problem. This way I can smoke it all the way to the bottom. This is a very pleasant rotation if you like sweeter aromatics. Smells great! All my co-workers think so!

This is growing to be one of my favorites in the Lane line. Its in the first bowl I light and in the last bowl of the nite.It has a great taste as well as a great roomnote. The taste is not overpowering, it is cut just right, and it burns cool and smooth. The ladies will love this one fellas! I highly recommend this pouch to everyone. Smoke up! M.O.Z.Z.M.A.N.N

Black Raspberry Newcomer's,or sweet tooth smoker's would more than likely appreciate Black Raspberry. I was given about 100 gram's to try. I was PLEASANTLY SURPRISED. It was not like those dreadful heavily sickly cased Cherry and Vanilla blend's.I found Black raspberry to be highly pleasant.The taste is great and not overpowering in the least. I love Virginia's,V-Perique's,English and Balkan's,but as far as I'm concerned this was one of the best aromatic's I've ever smoked. Very easy to light and totally consistant to the bottom of the bowl. Smoked all day and no sign of a bite,at all. This aromatic deserve's 10 out 10.

Sceny covered the bases pretty well already, there's really nothing to add in that respect.

This is a tobacco that won't bite you, no matter how much you try to provoke it. It is nothing if not consistant. The pouch aroma, taste, and room note are all the same: Very Raspberry. It does get a bit boring.

But, you don't have to smoke it 'straight'. I had a wonderful time with this tobacco. I mixed it with a chocolate blend - excellent. Tried it with a 'vanilla creme' - very nice. Just mix them together in about equal parts and smoke immediately. If you let them sit to 'marry' the flavors, it isn't nearly as good.

This is a 'fun' tobacco for once-in-a-while. Definitely not an all-day smoke.

OK, I admit it. No one gave it to me, I bought it myself. Will I by more when this is gone? Probably not. Will I finish this 2 oz sample? Probably. I had low expectations for this product, and they were met.

Yes, it is goopy. And no amount of drying would probably change that. I have smoked goopier, more heavily topped blends. The black raspberry DOES taste like black raspberry jelly. No chemical overtone like Lane's Cherry.

I basically use this as a blend: equal parts Skandinavik Full Aroma (which has no aroma) and Black Raspberry. This gives a tobacco base to the mixture and helps it burn. Kind of.

The mixture described above is a hit with those in the room and is kind of like eating candy to the smoker. I never try to burn this all the way down. I know better.

Would I recommend this to anyone else. It is a Lane's American style Aromatic. 'nuff said. Buyer beware.

I was sent this in a small bag with a new pipe I ordered, so I decided I might as well try it. On the plus side, the smoke is very smooth and bite-free and is an excellent crowd pleaser. On this minus side... can you say GOUPEY?? The smell is very strong, sweet rasberries with perhaps a hint of chocolate, and is obvious from a couple feet away. The leaf is mostly dark black, with an occasional dark brown strand also presant. The moisture level is very high, making the tobacco greasy and somewhat sticky, and letting it sit out to dry helps only a little. It does light easily and pack well, but due to the moisture content, many relights are needed, especially toward the bottom. Don't smoke this in anything you don't want to smell like rasberry for several bowls! In the first third of the bowl, the first, last, and overwhelming taste is rasberry: it tastes like I'm smoking a rasberry liquor, full strength! It's not a BAD taste, if you like rasberry, but it is *rather* one-dimensional. I can't taste any tobacco flavor at all. In the second and last thirds, the taste is unchanged. At no time do I sense anything beyond sweet rasberry. The smoke is remarkably smooth and *totally* bite-free, produced in large volumes that leave a very pleasant scent in the room (or the entire house!). As a crowd pleaser, this blend is outstanding; but I very quickly got tired of smoking a rasberry. Also, there is a great deal of moisture; I had to use a pipe cleaner several times during each bowl, and the last bit of tobacco in the bottom is too wet to burn. Overall, I can't see myself ever smoking this as more than an occasional sweet treat. Even if the moisture problems could be solved, the taste is so one-dimensional that more than one bowl at a time would be extraordinarily boring. If you like American aromatics (and rasberry) and don't mind about 50% PG content, try this one; but if you prefer natural, dry-smoking toabcco, RUN AWAY!!

This week’s entry comes from the large assortment of aromatics offered by Lane Limited. If the savory flavor of dense berries sends your salvatory glands into absolute ecstasy, then this one is definitely made just for you. A heavy impregnated mass of fragrant ebony Cavendish, ribboned Virginia, and rough-cut Burley.

Visually the tobacco presents a splendid display of lush darkness as the weave of varietals come ornate with an impactful aroma of luscious raspberry opulence. The charming pouch essence leaves no doubt as to the sweet delight waiting inside. This all-powering fruity note profoundly rides on the overall nose as just a desperate nibble of citrusy grass and soft wood scratch on the bottom surface for proper registration.

Striking the flame, bountiful raspberry flavor immediately embraces the senses. Tastefully bold and well centered, the quality of Lane’s mixture presents a smooth, delectable representation of the classic sugary-slightly tart berry affection. I reminds me of that good Smucker’s preserves that I love to slap on top on my buttered toast. This stream holds its character for completion of the smoke as some sweet zesty spice from the Cavendish, buttery brown sugared Burley nuttiness and a little tangy Virginia move in the background in that sequence.

Generally, the room fills with a lofty cloud of strong perfume (literally) marked of sugared berry. Additionally, there is a nice supportive band of native earthy spice supplements this overt sweetness. My wife however did not care for its powerful presence as she shunned me to the confines of my den to finish the smoke. Oh well.

Black Raspberry’s burn is steadily cool with no bite whatsoever. Straight up, Lane’s blend is monochromatic in nature, pleasant and poignantly sweet all the same. As an added treat I mixed a dash of it with some Sutliff Vanilla Custard producing an enjoyable creamy alternative. Option two, blended with some Sutliff Chocolate Mousse, the combination brings a similar cocoa-raspberry flavor one finds in the analogous Ghirardelli candy squares.

For what it is, I’d give this one 2.5 pipes, placing it on par with comparable berry flavored blends that I’ve smoked. A fine dessert mix for all practical purposes. If this humble review sparks a note of interest, then it’s worth a trial as you just might discover comforting gratification to that berry compulsion that lies within you.

Smoking now:

I feel like I need to justify smoking a raspberry aromatic but I won’t. Lane makes good aromatics. The tin note is, well, black raspberry. Appears mostly dark cavendish.

Let dry a bit before packing and lighting. The taste is a decent mellow and sweet virgina burley cavendish blend. It’s very well balanced, sweet Virginia, nutty burley, sugary cavendish. The raspberry is subtle but adds a noticeable accent to the first half of the bowl to what would other wise be a decent va/bur/cav blend. Very “old school” type of tobacco blend I could see some guy in a mustache scooping out of a big glass jar at your tobacconist 100 years ago. The room note is pleasant and short lived. Co workers did not complain about the room note. No after taste, could bite if pushed like any aromatic however it did not bite me.

If I was around non smokers and wanted to smoke a pipe this would be something I would gravitate towards. One nonsmoking coworker called it aroma therapy. Has enough natural tobacco flavor for a non aromatic smoker to enjoy.

*update Dec 19 2021*

A mellow sweet Virginia Burley Cav blend with a pleasant fruit top note. I actually enjoyed the simplicity of this blend. Smoking the last of it this morning at work with coffee. Mild, mellow, with some tobacco flavor. 3 stars.