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   I know this is a perennial query, but its been raised again in my mind. It seems like for every one thats correct, theres twenty that are glycerol coated tongue biting nightmares. Its come up in my thoughts again with the purchase of a pouch of 7 seas cherry, which surprisingly manages to avoid these traps. Its less cherry candy, more cherry cordial. For those synaesthetes out there, that means a little less Phil Collins, a little more Henry Rollins. So I ask, what cherry blends do you approve of, if any?

   

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   CAO: Cherry Bomb, will do. Georgetown Pipe & Tobacco: Washington Cherry, very good. Borkum Riff: Cavendish Cherry, nope. Captain Black: Cherry, nope. Fader's: Cherry Berry, very very good.

   This is my cherry sampling so My 2p.

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   I have tried Paladin Black Cherry, G&H Black Top Cherry & Middelton's Cherry.

   To me:
   Paladin is much sweeter then the rest. I liked it but if you rush it it bites bad and is a bit goopy.

   G&H Black Top is much more of a natural cherry flavor as a Cherry Liqueur is used to flavor. It feels goopy but does not smoke like a typical aero. I like it but it is a much more subtle smoke and does not bite at all. Our own Kevin did a great review here.

   I couldn't stand Middleton's. This was one of the first smokes I tried and my tastes may have changed since then, but to me it was a very medicine cherry smell and tasted nothing like cherry.

   I also have an unopened tin of CAO Cherrybomb. Haven't tried it yet but it has great reviews.

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   I have enjoyed McClelland's 3 Cherry Blend in the past, it’s one of their bulk aromatics and very good in my opinion.

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   I lost my mind a couple years ago, maybe 18 months, and bought 1/2 pound of Lane's Very Cherry based a rumor that the Lanes would be unavailable. Being a dedicated "English blend" smoker this was out of character for the most part but on occasion I do like an aromatic, or at least I think I do. With 55-65% of pipe smokers preferring aromatics I thought I might try some.
   Back in the mid 1960s I tried ONE bowl of Paladin's -ONE was enough. Never again. I found Middleton's Cherry Blend to be passable, smoke-worthy, for the once in three months bowl. I did try some Danish Cheery black cavendish for Finck's Cigar, nope.
   The Lane's was overwhelming in the negatives aspects usually noted, but after I let the tobacco sit for a year plus some in a Mason jar (and not that well sealed) it had dried considerably and the medicine taste abated somewhat. Mixing it later with plain Golden Cavendish (50/50) from Stokkebye yielded a decent smoke. Better yet was mixing it with McClellend Grand Oriental Classic Samsun, but that was a terrible waste of GOOd tobacco on the McC side.
   Then I found Caminetto Barolo and thereby tasted a real, well-made blend lightly topped with a cherry extract. Thus far, it is my favorite - high tin price notwithstanding.

   There are plenty more out there to try, but I doubt I'll go further.

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   Undertow by Just For Him is a cherry vanilla blend that doesn't taste so artificial.

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   Not being a aro~smoker myself, I did try G&H Top Black Cherry...I wasn't crazy about it at first, but then I mixed some mild burley into (50/50) it and POOF...one of my favorites now

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   Here's a link to the Caminetto Barolo (cherry) that aristokles likes. Currently not available.
   I started out with Middleton's Cherry Blend, and I liked it back then (the late 60's). Maybe I should come full circle and smoke it again.

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   Middleton's Cherry Blend. No others need apply. YMMV.

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    None.

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    CAO Cherry Bomb is in a class by itself, IMHO. Every tin I open gets smoked faster than the last.

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    I personally like McLintock Black Cherry, although it doesn't get very high marks on Tobacco Review. I found the cherry flavour just right. On the other hand, I wasn't so keen on Gawith Hoggarth & Co Black Cherry Exclusive, which surprised me as I have really enjoyed their Coffee Caramel and Caribbean Coconut.

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    The only cherry I have been able to put up with was Prince Al Cherry Vanilla. Of course, as a guy who's not much on aros, I don't try very hard, either.

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    The only Cherry blend I have tried and kinda liked was Peter Stokkebye Cherry, I could actually taste tobacco. Tasting tobacco is my number one requirement in any aromatic blend, if I can't taste the tobacco, and all I taste is the topping, then it gets passed on or trashed.

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    Cherry blends are why I don't smoke aros, with the sole exception of 1792 Flake. The smell of cherry tobacco makes me gag. I know the aros are loved by many but for me it's tobacco I want, not a desert menu.

    I don't understand why but the smell of cherry flavoured tobacco smoke is almost an emetic for me. Smoking it would be an emetic, for sure.

    I love cherries but hate fake cherry flavourings.

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    Park Lanes has a blend called Black Forest that I really like.
    An elusive combination of black tobaccos, mysterious and flavorful! Virginia's and Cavendish tobaccos are mixed with Latakia, Perique and a unique fruit top dressing that makes for a smoking experience unlike any other!
    It is also ine my wife thinks smells great when I smoke it.

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    Celtic Talisman, not too cherry and burns nice and cool. One of my favorite tobaccos.

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    I don't have much experience with Cherry Blends but I recomend Cherry Smash from Boswell's

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    I'm also a fan of the G&H Top Black Cherry. I have one other cherry blend, which is Tewksbury's Hobbit's Weed, but it is blended with vanilla, which seems to help smooth it out.

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    It's funny how everyone has their favorite, yet can't tolerate any other cherry blend.
    Well here's mine:
    Paladin Black Cherry

    
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    I'll have to try CAO Cherry Bomb. Every other cherry I have tried tastes like cherry bathroom disinfectant.

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    I'm with juni and the Celtic Talisman by Sam Gawith. I really like that stuff.

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    I have been going through some bouts of TAD lately and I just realized in my cellar just how much Cherry baccy I have. Trying to keep the number of open tins limited. I am down to 20 open. lol Though only 2 open cherry.

    CAO Cherry Bomb - 1 50g Tin Unopened
    Captain Black Cherry - 2oz Bag Unopened
    MB Cherry Ambrosia - 1 100g Tin Unopened
    Sutliff Private Stock St. George's Blend - 2oz Can Unopened
    G&H Black Top Cherry - 4 oz Bulk (about 10 bowls worth smoked)
    Paladin Black Cherry - 2oz bag (about half gone)

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    I was not a fan of Middletons but I happen to like CAO Cherry Bomb. I'm really not into cherry blends, though, so YMMV bigtime.

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    Every other cherry I have tried tastes like cherry bathroom disinfectant.

    Mmmm... cherry disinfectant

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    I'm not big on cherry flavored tobaccos but one that I do like is Boswell's Pennsylvania Dutch Treat. It's a subtle, not so "in your face" cherry flavor. The very first pipe tobacco I ever smoked was Middleton's Cherry Blend and it nearly put me off the pipe forever. My brother-in-law had always smoked it and I loved the aroma so I figured it would be a favorite. My packing and smoking techniques were pretty poor back then and it fried my tongue. I switched to Carter Hall and refined my technique and discovered pipe smoking bliss.

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    I don't understand. How are all of these horrible Cherry tobacco blends still in business, or being sold? I've never heard anything good about 99% of cherry blends. How come they are still being sold?

    I bought a 50g pouch the other day of Alsbö Cherry. Big mistake, horrible. I can't make myself throw it away either. It just sits there and taunts me.

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    Captain Black Cherry - 2oz Bag Unopened

    Should stay that way. Trust me. I finally "fixed" the only bag I've ever bought by jarring it with several other baccys mixed in and sitting a couple months. But why go through that kind of trouble ? the best cherries I've had are:

    Fader's Cherry Berry
    Middleton
    Palladin black Cherry

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    I have found that a 50/50 mix of a good Black cavendish with Lane's Very Cherry makes a nice blend. The cherry on it's own if a recipe for bite but the 50/50 with cavendish is good. If I am feeling especially bold...I will mix 2 oz very cherry with 2 oz Black Cavendish and 1 oz of a good vanilla. I think cherry tobacco is best when it is used to accent something else.

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    Just can't do cherry. Haven't found one that doesnt taste like medicine. Thought G&H would be ok but it is also a no go. And I do enjoy aro's, just not cherry stuff.

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    Aah cherry tobacco... the "white zinfandel' of the tobacco world.

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    billm, that's what i've done - mix vanilla black cav with the lane's cherry. but i'll mix vbc with about anything. lately i've been smoking vbc and plain burley from time to time.

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    I love that reference! The white Zinfandel of pipe tobacco.

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    You guys had me all excited...so I stopped at lunch and bought some Palladin....Yuck. It doesn't even taste like tobacco!

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    You guys had me all excited...so I stopped at lunch and bought some Palladin....Yuck. It doesn't even taste like tobacco!

    It wasn't supposed to. Hence the name "Black Cherry."

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    To steal some elses refence....It tasted like I was smoking Playdoh.

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    I was reeled by the perplexing nature nature of this thread. Love.... hate.... love.... hate.... hate.... little bit of love.

    Consequently I wasted $10 on a tin of CAO cherry bomb. My first bowl was right after opening the tin while still at the B&M. Getting through the bowl was an actual chore. It smells so great in the tin you can almost eat it.

    I am told by the "hater in chief" that the room note does not smell of cherry. The bowl I am smoking now is out of a meer. It is not like work this time, but it is far from great. I absolutely cannot blow the smoke out of my nose like I do with most tobaccos. Getting the smoke in the nose is quite unpleasant.

    I am going to let it air out some more, but I am writing this stuff off.

    Oh yeah, and now that I am half way through the bowl the pipe is not gurgling.... it is boiling.

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    I like aromatics but I don't get the cherry thing. Why are there so many cherry blends? I've only ever tried Captain Black's in the form of a cigar and a colt as well and both give me a headache.

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    MB cherry ambrosia o my god opened it last week an wish id a left it at the store, no cherry flavour at all, like buddy who started this thread, i cant find a good one

    Now i gotta larn how to reed and rite good

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    Guess I just lucked out on the body chemistry You can always send your CAO to me to dispose of properly, rhogg

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    I think W.O Larsen Signature Vintage Mixture smells and tastes like a Cherry blend, much more so than the awful cased cherry blends I have had before. The Tobacco Reviews description says fruit/citrus, vanilla and carmel, but I swear it smells like the very first sniff I had of Middletons, and tastes much better and smoother.

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    Well I'm dying to try MacB's 7 Seas Red Blend. Hopefully that'll be in my stocking or under the tree Christmas morning as many hints have been dropped to the Mrs. about it. However, for the time being my favourite cherry blend would be MacBaren's Cherry Ambrosia. Great mix of cherry and Jamaica rum. As long as the "ready rub" is rubbed out totally the blend keeps the flavour consistantly and if sipped properly like an aromatic should be it is a great smoke with no bite.

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    There's rum in MB Cherry Ambrosia? I thought it was just Virginia, burley and cherry-flavored cavendish.

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    The tin description is as follows:

    Cherry Ambrosia

    To achieve the delightful taste in this blend we have selected some very special Virginia tobaccos and added Ready Rubbed Burley tobacco. The taste is adjusted with our modern Cavendish made from pure Virginia tobaccos. As a final touch, genuine Jamaica rum and a special cherry flavour have been added. This blend gives you a cool and pleasant smoke with a taste of delightful cherries.

    As with most aromatics you have to be patient with it and gently sip on it. If you rub out the "ready rub Burley", which is more of a broken flake actually, then the flavour stays more pronounced throughout the bowl. Also, as with most blends, the cherry flavour is more pronounced as well when paired with a good drink. For me usually a nice glass of Baileys or Red Stag and ginger ale does the trick.

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    Thanks lord,

    MB must have changed some of their recipes in recent years, because this is the second time a tin description doesn't match the info I have, which is a Mac Baren mouse pad with a listing of all their blends and their components as of about 10 years ago.

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    The tin I have is dated May 2009. So, maybe sometime in that gap they added in the rum.

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    I used to like Anniversary by Tinder Box, I don't smoke aros. much anymore but when I did I enjoyed it, deep cherry flavor.

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