Cult Blood Red Moon

One of the best aromatic blends for someone who like less nicotine tobacco. The taste is very mild. room note pleasant. I love this tobacco. Good luck

Cult Blood Red Moon is an instant hit for me. A very strong candy cherry smell hit me when I opened the tin. This is one of the few aromatics that I've found that tastes like it smells. You'll get a taste of the Virginias here and there but mostly the strong cherry flavor is what you get. The blend burns well and requires few relights. The flavor is present all through the smoke, but you will lose some flavor at the end of the bowl. This is a fantastic aromatic and would be a great first tobacco for any new pipe smokers.

Cloying to my taste, almost sickeningly sweet. Dessert type flavors - meaning cherry is maraschino cherry and the chocolate is fudge. From the reviews, I've read I decided to pick up a few tins and give it a whirl, but it's just not for me. Everyone around commented favorably on the room note, you don't have to concentrate too hard to reach the flavor profile - it's right there in all its very sweet glory 🙂 Putting this one in the trade pile and as my opinion is more odd man out, don't think it will be hard to swap.

Full disclosure: this was my very first pipe tobacco, and as such, I cannot help but have a sentimental attachment to it. Like many tobacco neophytes, my first forays into this hobby counted aromatics as the bulk of their experience and interest. Still, coming back to this blend a year later, and I find myself enjoying it all over again, but for reasons I could not possibly appreciate when I first tried it.

The tin note is strong with cherry and chocolate, with the more earthy and nutty scents of the Burley and Cavendish only just barely reigning things in. The cherry flavor is dominant and sweet, but not artificial, with chocolate also being prominent. It tastes like a cordial you can smoke, but with just enough traditional tobacco taste to keep it from tasting like a goopy mess. To be blunt: this is the best of the cherry aromatics that I've tried, and I am hardly alone in thinking that. If you want a top-shelf cherry aromatic and that's all you care about, you can stop reading and buy yourself a tin. You won't be disappointed.

But what makes me appreciate this blend now that I come back to it with more experience, is that it toes a fine line that few aromatics can manage: it is an unapologetically aromatic blend that does not forsake its tobacco identity. Many aromatics I've tried are usually subpar tobaccos with topping to mask its shortcomings. Others are tobaccos where the aromatic flavoring is added carelessly as an afterthought, almost as if its blender was somewhat embarrassed to being making an aromatic blend in the first place. (I quickly learned that that aromatics often get snubbed by more experienced smokers, and though this dismissive attitude is not entirely unjustified, it does seem to occasion overly harsh and condescending sentiment.) But Blood Red Moon is unapologetically a cherry bomb, and it does so with gusto and without treating its choices of Cavendish and Burleys as an afterthought. This is aromatic tobacco done well, and it remains in my rotation after all this time.

Cherry and dark chocolate. Rich and not overly sweet. Great room note of cherry. More complex taste than expected but is exactly as advertised. One of my go to's.

This is the gold standard for cherry tobacco. The aroma and taste are both natural compared to other artificial flavored tobaccos. the flavor and aroma both pushed a chocolate covered cherry. The balance between the chocolate and cherry is perfect, pushing a bit more cherry over the chocolate. Altogether, there's no other cherry tobacco IMO.

Blood Red Moon is unlike the other aromatic cherry blends that I have tried of late. It produces a cool very dark cherry flavor with slight hints of cocoa as the label says. Boy, that cherry is an intense taste. This might be the only pipe tobacco i've smoked where the taste and the smell are nearly identical. It's damn good tobaccy. I can't see myself wanting it in my rotation or as a daily but for it's place - it's great.

As a newer pipe smoker, I am mainly exploring the different blends (I favor aromatic blends, although I am dipping my toes into the non-aromatic blends now) to find what I like. Opening the tin, what I smelled was chocolate and cherry. The flavor I tasted was chocolate and cherry. If you are looking for a chocolate and cherry blend this is your ultimate match, from the tin and room note to the taste this is a excellent tobacco. I did not have any tounge-bite with this blend.

I love the Cult tin art. Cool presentation and theme that's pretty unique in the world of pipe tobacco. Tin note as you'd expect, cherry cordial and a bit of cocoa. Comes quite moist, and doesn't dry much when left out for prolonged periods of time. There must be a hefty amount of PG in this stuff, however it actually smokes quite well right out the tin, which is surprising.

The cherry is somewhat subdued, and the cocoa is more in front. Dry-ish Cocoa, Sour cherry cordial, a bit of cream, a tiny bit of woodiness & grassyness. That's all I really get. Not super complex but the flavors that are there are not terribly artificial or cloying. It's also not syrupy sweet. I'm actually surprised by how decent & natural the flavorings taste, but that is all I can taste. Few tobacco notes if any. Burns like a typical goopy aro, but does not bite like one. Terrific room note.

Overall while the flavorings completely drown out the tobacco, they still remain quite enjoyable. I see why this would be high on the list for some folks.