Missouri Meerschaum Great Dane

Pouch note is excellent, I noticed a couple of reviews saying the pouch note doesn't translate well into the smoke, in my opinion you couldn't be more wrong. I found the balance of flavours to be spot on, neither the caramel, vanilla nor the cherry overpower each other. Russ at P&C has done an excellent job blending this tobacco. No chemical taste and no tongue bite even when you put your tongue up close to the lip of the pipe. Only one relight through the duration of the bowl, pity I picked a smallish to medium bowl sized pipe to try it and pity I only ordered 2 pouches. This is an excellent blend at an excellent price. This will stay in my rotation for sure. Highly recommend you try Great Dane. Can't wait for them to sell it in larger pouches as is the plan according to Russ

Being a new pipe smoker at 64, I went a little crazy with buying pipes and tobaccos. Spent 4 months reading every article, video, review etc...

Spent way too much money on it all but the best one of all for me was Great Dane. I really like SOME of the others of the 20 blends I purchased. Hooked on nicotine since age 15, I didn't know what I was looking for. Nicotine? Flavor? I almost gave up but found 2 items that cinched the deal for me. Corn cobs and Great Dane. All the reviews on Great Dane about cherry, vanilla, black cavendish, burley, I read about and kind of understand the different preparations and such but once I learned how to smoke a pipe and discovered Great Dane (and to some extent, Dunhill Mixture 965), I really think I'm ready to give up dip, and vaping. GD has a full satisfying strength and flavor that I found very satisfying. It was not like any other aromatics I've tried and I didn't realize it was one until I read some of these reviews. Now, I'm having a hard time deciding how to use all these others I have when GD has provided all that I was looking for. 4 star all the way for me ... but what do I know? I know it's good for me ... and my wife enjoys the aroma. It's a WIN WIN.

This blend has the best pouch note I have ever smelled. I wanted to eat it. It smells of warm caramels, light vanilla, some mild cherry, cocoa, and perhaps a touch of rum or bourbon. Absolutely delicious smelling. As far as smoking it goes, I enjoy it. It doesnt taste as good as it smells but to me the caramel flavor comes through wonderfully and the light cherry as well as nutty notes, when sipped, it is an extremely pleasant and mild but full bodied smoke. No tongue bite for me, and I tend to puff. I really like this blend and will keep a pouch on hand.

This not-so-manly-sounding Aromatic is precisely the kind of awful-type of blend (i.e. cherries, cream and nonsense) that may well turn-off a neophyte by the chemical taste and strong car-odorizer smell—EXCEPT that this is the Unicorn of all cherry tobaccos!

Man is it AMAZING!

Delicious and creamy, tastes like real maraschino cherries, not cherry syrup, and this sort of golden caramel and vanilla thing starts to fill the room in midway through the bowl.

Wives/girlfriends/daughters/ and the general public LOVE this blend because it smells like a bakeshop. The base of Virginias, Cavendish and probably a bit of Burley, is pretty tasty on its own.

A fantastic and fun smoke for when people are around.

This is my first review on a tobacco since i am fairly new to the pipesmoking game, so bare with me here. I have been smoking pipes on and off for the last couple of years but only got serious about it a couple of months ago. I decided to order some tobacco online on Smokingpipes.com and saw this one pop-up in the process and thought by myself "why not?".

The Missouri Meerschaum Company is renowned for its fairly priced but reliable corn cob pipes and i thought this tobacco might have the same philosophy behind it. And...My faith in it being so was rewarded! After smoking one pouch of it i can honestly say that this has been the first aromatic i truly love. After i finished the first pouch i even went so far as to order two more (and with that also a pouch of Missouri Pride and American Patriot). Hell, I am even smoking it as i am writing this review.

The pouch description reads "A deep, sweet Cavendish blend with notes of dark cherry and fragrant vanilla." It is made in the USA by the Scandinavian Tobacco Group Lane Ltd and is blended with the help of a certain Russ Ouellette (that name didnt ring a bell with me but I have been made to understand that he is a great blender).

Upon opening the pouch (they are not sealed for some reason) you directly get a wiff of cherries but not in a way that it is overwhelming or chemical. I can also make out the canvedish and an actual tobacco smell.

The smoke is great and tastes exactly like it smells. Cherries, vanilla and tobacco. It is very well balanced in my opinion and like i said before the cherry topping does not strike me as chemical but rather comes over as if there are actual dried cherries in there. Its burns nice and even to a nice white ash and doesnt bite.

The room note is very mild and pleasant. The girlfriend likes it so that is always a plus!

All in all this is a great smoke that could easily be (and has been in my case) an all-day smoke or a nice beginners tobacco. Definitly one of the best aromatics out there in my opinion and like MM's cobs, fairly priced and of great quality.

What more do you need?

*(Sorry for my spelling if something seems off, i am not a native English speaker or writer)

I'm impressed! This is everything you want in a "go to" aromatic. upon opening the pouch you get a top note of cherry vanilla, but mild. The tobacco is perfectly moist out of the bag. A very enjoyable and cool smoke. The Cherry is not a top note, but present throughout and subtle caramel notes emerge throughout the smoke. It was so good, I had to smoke another bowl out of another pipe that day. After taste and day after taste was present, but it was a pleasant memory on the palette of an exceptional smoke. As a relative "returning pipe smoker", I recommend Great Dane to all new pipers looking for a cool aromatic without the overwhelming top notes of flavoring.

It was a sensational experience smoking the Great Dane, I loved every minute of it. If I could buy this tobacco where I live, I wouldn't smoke anything else. I've tried some similar tasting tobaccos but none of them could overwhelm me as much as the Great Dane from Missouri Meerschaum.

Ok, I'm going to put this out there that's obvious to the veteran pipe smokers out there familiar with his work. Russ Ouellette has created something special with this Missouri Meerschaum tobacco line. Each one provides a great and distinct smoke. They make for great starter tobaccos or those just graduating from starter and also for those who don't want something heavy in nicotine.

First off, Great Dane, is the best smelling aromatic out of the bag. Full stop. It smells like sweet candy - caramel, cherries, and vanilla. Now, at this point people are going to say, "Ok, what about the tongue bite?". I did not experience any. Now, any aromatic doesn't always taste like it smells. THIS blend, however, delivers a sweet smoke that doesn't bit and produces nice, thick, white smoke.

Absolutely great blend. If you like aros, try this one.

This is without a doubt the best Tobacco I can find for an everyday all around smoke. I've tried everything from Stanwell to W.O. Larsen and I have yet to find one that smokes like this one. You can smoke it hot, cool, slow, or burn it like a smoke stack and it never makes you feel like you had Kerosene poured in your mouth- No "bite", not overpowering, just the right "tang", taste, and burns to the bottom of the bowl. I know I'm not the only one that likes this one due to the fact that everyone I've bought it from is out and has been out for weeks! ( If you know where I can buy some let me know PLEASE!! ) Every pipe style and type I've smoked this one in is the same-Just an all around great Tobacco.