Please read my post on Paladin Black Cherry Tobacco and reply there, and feel free to make a Paladin Black Cherry Tobacco Review here.
Paladin Black Cherry Tobacco - Love it or Hate it?
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I'd post a review if I had tried it, Kevin... Not available in my neck of the woods.
I will comment though that that chap could use a little objectivity while writing his reviews. I doubt it is as vile as he says, even if it is bad; we could have used a discussion of the smoking experience rather than receiving a flurry of negative adjectives alone. He didn't even rate any of the attributes on the side. No offense to rattdog, just saying he could stand to be a little more constructive or at least more convincing. I've seen reviewers find merits in the scorned Mixture 79 even though they pan it overall. To date, I haven't tried something I'd NEVER smoke, mostly just blends I wouldn't bother to smoke or blends that wouldn't combust well enough to smoke. I know we are talking about tobacco reviews and they don't demand the impartiality of a judge, but it helps to be a little openminded.
I will comment though that that chap could use a little objectivity while writing his reviews. I doubt it is as vile as he says, even if it is bad; we could have used a discussion of the smoking experience rather than receiving a flurry of negative adjectives alone. He didn't even rate any of the attributes on the side. No offense to rattdog, just saying he could stand to be a little more constructive or at least more convincing. I've seen reviewers find merits in the scorned Mixture 79 even though they pan it overall. To date, I haven't tried something I'd NEVER smoke, mostly just blends I wouldn't bother to smoke or blends that wouldn't combust well enough to smoke. I know we are talking about tobacco reviews and they don't demand the impartiality of a judge, but it helps to be a little openminded.
I don'y kno, I rate it down with Mix 79 myself. I don't hate any tobacco but I never could enjoy Paladan. Been a long time since I smoked it though.
Paladin Black Cherry is one of my favorite OTCs.
It's rich, sweet, and flavorful.
Granted it is a "flavored" tobacco, but when I want cherry flavor... I want cherry flavor.
My 2 cents.
It's rich, sweet, and flavorful.
Granted it is a "flavored" tobacco, but when I want cherry flavor... I want cherry flavor.
My 2 cents.
@Lawrence
http://luxurytobaccoreviews.com/t/paladin-black-cherry
Help out one of your favorites by defending her with a good review right here:
http://luxurytobaccoreviews.com/t/paladin-black-cherry
Argh, now I'm going to have to order a pouch of Paladin Black Cherry and a tin of Mixture 79 just to see what everyone is complaining about...
The photo in the blog post and review page is taken by me of my own pouch purchased over a year ago, but I have not opened it yet.
This was one of my first tobaccos, black cherry, can't be bad, but it's too rich,
too sweet and too flavorful and it bites. I got a harsh, chemical taste from smoking
this tobacco and ended up blending it with some PA. Give it a try if you like full flavor aromatics, but it's not for me.
too sweet and too flavorful and it bites. I got a harsh, chemical taste from smoking
this tobacco and ended up blending it with some PA. Give it a try if you like full flavor aromatics, but it's not for me.
I had some out of the box pass and I kinda liked it . Can you say very cherry . Sometimes we pipe smokers get carried away with our fancy tins and high dollar blends . Then we smoke a little drug store blend and just dont want to admit that it was good or that we liked it .
Schmitzbitz,
I'm with you halfway - I almost feel like ordering Paladin from all this just to share my own opinion on it. I could use a guilty pleasure! With that said I probably won't go to all the hassle when I still have a lot of worthier tobaccos to buy instead.
I'll be eating crow if I ever try it and find it awful, but I just took exception to the blend's outright dismissal without many reasons put forth. I just smoked my first bowl of Penzance and was very underwhelmed on my first impression, but I'm not about to write a couple reviews saying it's all hype and no substance. Apples and oranges, I know, but my point is that I feel like giving most tobaccos a fair shot no matter what they are.
Strongirish,
I've read many of your reviews on TR.com and found them all very useful - that makes all the difference. I buy most of my tobaccos based on the collective judgments of other pipe smokers that I've read. I appreciate a negative review if it is articulate and spells out a blend's faults. My only argument was that posting "Avoid" would have been just as meaningful as the review in question, it may very well be a poor blend for all I know.
I'm with you halfway - I almost feel like ordering Paladin from all this just to share my own opinion on it. I could use a guilty pleasure! With that said I probably won't go to all the hassle when I still have a lot of worthier tobaccos to buy instead.
I'll be eating crow if I ever try it and find it awful, but I just took exception to the blend's outright dismissal without many reasons put forth. I just smoked my first bowl of Penzance and was very underwhelmed on my first impression, but I'm not about to write a couple reviews saying it's all hype and no substance. Apples and oranges, I know, but my point is that I feel like giving most tobaccos a fair shot no matter what they are.
Strongirish,
I've read many of your reviews on TR.com and found them all very useful - that makes all the difference. I buy most of my tobaccos based on the collective judgments of other pipe smokers that I've read. I appreciate a negative review if it is articulate and spells out a blend's faults. My only argument was that posting "Avoid" would have been just as meaningful as the review in question, it may very well be a poor blend for all I know.
Its been many years since I've smoked Paladin. I'd reckon that every pipe smoker has spent time with a cherry blend. I did buy a tin of CAO's Cherry Bomb last summer and it was pretty good but in the end I donated it to the smoking bar at the B&M.
My only attempt at a cherry blend was Gawith Hoggarth Top Black Cherry and I wasn't able to get it lit, even with extended drying. Too dang moist. I imagine that Paladin is either just as bad or ten times worse. I cut my teeth on little cherry cigars years ago, I do have some lingering nostalgia for the flavour.
Lawrence, how do you find the moisture/rate of combustion/physical smoking experience of this blend? Decent? Everyone seems to be up in arms about the flavour; that seems to be divisive, and I'm willing to chance that I could go either way but I simply don't want something that's a hassle to light.
Also, do you find it bites?
Lawrence, how do you find the moisture/rate of combustion/physical smoking experience of this blend? Decent? Everyone seems to be up in arms about the flavour; that seems to be divisive, and I'm willing to chance that I could go either way but I simply don't want something that's a hassle to light.
Also, do you find it bites?
:laughat:
Check it out: Paladin Black Cherry Tobacco Review
Lawrence just did a good review of Paladin Black Cherry Tobacco. By good, I mean he likes it, and the review is well-done itself.
Check it out: Paladin Black Cherry Tobacco Review
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