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Tonight I decided to do a fun little comparison and smoked 3 different cherry aromatics! First I had Mac Baren 7 Seas Red Blend in the Dr Grabow Lark, then Lane Limited Very Cherry in the Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentleman, and lastly Cult Blood Red Moon in the Peterson Junior Rusticated Billiard.
The Mac Baren 7 Seas Red was a very natural tart cherry flavor that mixes nicely with dark earthy Burleys and a touch of bright grassy Virginia, Cult Blood Red Moon was more of a sweet cherry pie flavor with a bit of chocolate and not much tobacco flavor to speak of aside from a hint of nutty Burley, and the Lane Very Cherry was... well, I thought it pretty much tasted like a cherry cough drop rolled in sawdust and garnished with a few slivers of almond.
Needless to say I wasn't a fan of Very Cherry, but 7 Seas Red and Blood Red Moon were both excellent! Of the two I liked 7 Seas Red the best, but that's just because I tend to gravitate towards more tobacco-forward and less sweet aromatics and appreciated the higher nicotine content from the central tobacco in the blend being Burley; whereas Blood Red Moon was mainly Black Cavendish. I don't think you could go wrong with either of them though.
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