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Cuba Black Ice Spearmint 43mg
Flavour: Ice Spearmint
Edition: Black · 43mg
Ways to buy: single can
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Ice Spearmint, the cold green mint in Cuba Black
Get a few Snus Life regulars talking about Cuba and someone will bring up the black can with the spearmint in it. Cuba Black is the 43mg line from Nicotobacco, the Polish maker behind the whole Cuba range, and Ice Spearmint is its cold green mint. Spearmint is the sweeter, softer side of the mint family, and the Ice in the name tells you the maker has turned the cooling right up. So you get the gentle mint and the frost in the same pouch, with Black's full number sitting underneath. Here's the thing. There are three mints on the Black shelf, and this is the one with the sweeter leaf.
Sweet spearmint, then the frost arrives
The first thing you notice is the spearmint, soft and faintly sweet, like the green chewing gum from the newsagent counter. A beat later the cold comes in behind it and spreads across the gum, clean and sharp. Fair play to it, the two never fight: the spearmint keeps the cooling from feeling harsh, and the cooling keeps the spearmint from going flat. It holds that balance through the whole load, and the finish is clean and cold rather than sugary. A mint with manners and a winter coat.
43mg a pouch, the extreme end of our scale
Every pouch carries 43mg of nicotine. On our scale that is the extreme band, which starts at 25mg and goes up from there. Within Cuba it is the Black line's number, well above the 10.4mg White cans and above the 15.6mg standard Ninja cans, though the Ninja line also climbs to a 150mg can. The uptake is quick and the curve is steep, which is exactly what Black regulars are after. The pouches are slim and black, 20 to a can. Strong snus, no messing about.
- Nicotine
- 43mg a pouch
- Pouch
- Slim, black
- Count
- 20 a can
- Profile
- Icy spearmint
The cold mint crowd, and the two mints beside it
This can suits the experienced snus user who wants spearmint with serious weight behind it. If you have been on Cuba White Ice Spearmint and want the same mint with Black's number, this is the straight step up. It also suits the regular who wants mint with a sweet edge rather than a stern one. Prefer a plain cooling mint? Cuba Black Cold Dry is the next can along, and Cuba Black Double Fresh is the big mint of the three. Give it a go.
Written by Harry Lowe