Mac Baren Cherry Ambrosia

Despite the aroma upon opening the pouch, I did not taste or savour cherry, as the name might imply. (A very, very mild aroma is detectible during smoking.) Neither though, do I believe that effusive melodrama is warranted.

Perhaps it is due to very slow and relaxed smoking habits on my part, but I did not find that this tobacco 'burned hot'. (Although, for me, I have not found any tobacco that "burns hot", believing that any fault there, lies with the person smoking.)

It may be that taste is too subjective and individual a gauge, but I can see no need for the vitriol that has been hurled at this particular tobacco. It is a tobacco that does not truly live up to its (cherry) name ... simply, mild; with little flavour; and unremarkable.

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Oh how the labels lie - they can make them sound so good.

Smells great in the tin but beyong that not much else to brag about. Did not taste cherry, I did taste a little straw/hay however. Burns hot!

Oh my, the reviews are so harsh on this blend, it's clearly not the most outstanding tobacco ever, but it's far from being categorized as hell itself. I've only smoked the old version of it (old mac baren logo) but I have never tried the new one, which I'm told is slightly different. So I suppose it's underwhelming and it does burn hot if not smoked carefully, but it's still nice to smoke once in a while, it's an aromatic that's both, mild and a bit more complex than the average OTC cherry tobaccos.I think most of the reviewers before me may be serious english blends smokers, and therefore they HATE this blend for being an aromatic and so mild. then again I can still see why some ppl wouldn't like it, but please do not be predjudiced so much against it, I for one like it for what it is. Mild, sweet dessert kind of tobacco. Only for aromatic smokers though!!!

UPDATE

I just bought a package of the new mac baren (with new packaging & new logo) and now I understand why ppl complain so much, even if I still kind of like it, the former version was far more subtle and didn't have this much tongue bite. I'll have to learn how to smoke it or find some more of the old version of it.

*I* did not taste or smell any cherry in this blend while smoking it. The only time i tasted cherry was after i was done smoking, when a faint taste of burnt dried cherries lingered in my mouth. The tin aroma was wonderful however it smokes hot as an iron forge and bites like a rabid dog.

Nasty, tounge bite city. Grusome and horrid. Yucksville. Only Borkum Riff cherry is nastier than this abomination of a tobacco.

I usually don't like the very flavor tobaccos, but this blend likes me. Is a interesting with a good cavendish portion. Easy to burn, tasty and very considerer with the sorrounding people. With a litle tongue bite. Good tobacco.

When I first got into smoking pipe tobacco I picked up a pouch of this stuff, drawn to the label's promise of a "taste of delightful cherries," and a "touch of genuine Jamaica rum." I still haven't gotten throught that very same pouch. Although the tin aroma is indeed cherry-like, the smoking flavour itself is something stranger and far more gruesome. It also has a disgusting aftertaste reminiscent of cheap cigarettes. Not since Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur have I had anything this bad, and it doesn't even taste that much like cherries. I'm afraid the haters were right on this one, ladies and gentlemen. Pure stank.

There are few tobaccos that make me wince so much as Cherry Ambrosia. Maybe Dunhill Royal Yacht can compare to it in my list of tobaccos not to buy. The casing of this tobacco could be described as horrible but in this circumstance words pale. Aside from the fact that the package labeled "tobacco" and it burned like tobacco I'd have doubted that it was. Instead of paying actual money for this tobacco a better option would be to give the money to a hardened crininal and ask to be beaten with a rubber hose... repetedly...for a week.

Got it as a birthday present and required to smoke it immediatly, I fear for my mouth and pipe. It turned out not to be so bad. It is no masterpice of blending, but it burns with ease, no bite, and after a ouple of puffs there is hardly any cherry. No chemical taste at all, just gentile cavendish, wich is not bad