Lane Limited Cherry Cavendish

This was the first pouch tobacco I tried. It smelled very good in the glass container at Pipes Unlimited - New York (Props for Uncle Bob) It has a great roomnote, and the taste is very mild. The only problem I have with it, is that is was a bit dry, so I put a humidor in for a nite, and that helped moisten it up. Other then that, its a good tobacco. This will always be a staple in my stock. Im a big fan of the other Lane products and will eventually try them all! Ace its time to smoke! Peace....... M.O.Z.Z.M.A.N.N.

I think this one is often referred to as "Very Cherry" in the tobacco shop's. If you like cherry aromatic tobacco that is smooth and has no tongue bite then this one is for you. I smoke it when I get home from work to the time I go to bed. I have searched for years for a cherry tobacco that burns cool and found happiness in Lane Limited's "Very Cherry". I have been smoking it on a regular basis for about a year now. In my eyes it is the "shiznat" of cherry tobacco's with an exception for Rattray's Terry Red that is also a great one.

Well it is Lane after all, so my expectations were not all that high. And, I have had bad luck in getting cherry aromatics that had much of a cherry flavor. Surely this one would at least deliver on the cherry. Still, Lane's Cherry Cavendish is a good example of how Americans can take things to such an extreme sometimes that a good idea becomes a bad dream.

As I had forgotten my traveling container of tobaccos, I purchased 2 oz of this "tobacco" in bulk before I hit the road for a long drive. I may not have purcahsed this product if I had seen it before buying. It surely must have had some food coloring added to it, or else was soaked in marishino cherry juice, cause lemme tell ya, this was red. And sticky. REAL sticky. And moist. Not the kind of moisture that any amount of drying would probably help. As to the tobacco component itself (if it was really tobacco) it must have been stewed into oblivion.

Now if you are getting the idea that I had some "issues" with this product you are right.The bottom line is that I smoked 3 LONG bowls of this stuff over a 350 mile drive during which the following points were noted:

1) there was a considerable cherry taste to this weed. overly so. But it was not abominable, just strong.

2) It was a steamy gurgle-fest right off the bat, and I did not have any pipe-cleaners. And convenience stores in interior Alaska (actually called roadhouses) do not carry pipe cleaners. Bummer x 2. I ended up buying a role of thin electrical wire (great selection of that useful product!), using it with paper towels to ungunk my pipe.

3) There was almost NO tobacco taste, the stuff could have been synthetic cellulose for all I could tell. Just a delivery system for cherry syrup.

4) This stuff was sweet enough that it actually took the edge off my apetite. Just a cup of coffee, an India Pale Ale and a 1/4 lb deli box of calamata olives for the whole trip. A record for me.

Well, I have finally found a use for this stuff. I mix 1:2 with some old and rather dryish Skandinavik Full Aroma (which curiously has almost NO aroma) and smoke it when I want to punish myself.