What is Your Favorite Cornell & Diehl Blend?

[kaiser83]

Star of the East

But absolutely never Evening Rise, that stuff is the spawn of Satan.

Just smoked Epiphany from 2010, it was a quite pleasant smoke.

 

[SkaCJ7]

Never tried any C&D blends, but I do have an order in for Captain Earle's Nightwatch blend which I heard is blended by C&D. Can anyone confirm this? Has anyone tried this or any other Captain Earle's blends? What do you think of em?

 

[sisyphus]

Never tried any C&D blends, but I do have an order in for Captain Earle's Nightwatch blend which I heard is blended by C&D. Can anyone confirm this? Has anyone tried this or any other Captain Earle's blends? What do you think of em?

half a dozen variations of Pirate Kake

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Nonsense.

Captain Earle stuff by C&D are quite different than Pirate Kake. PK has a ton of Burley in it, and has no Perique, for example (which is fine, I like it that way).

I guess it could be argued all C&D mixtures and blends are variations on each other, and therefore, the same. :scratch: :lol: I won't argue that, but a good blender with some good leaf is a magician.

8)

 

[BigCasino]

Nonsense.

Captain Earle stuff by C&D are quite different than Pirate Kake. PK has a ton of Burley in it, and has no Perique, for example (which is fine, I like it that way).

I guess it could be argued all C&D mixtures and blends are variations on each other, and therefore, the same. :scratch: :lol: I won't argue that, but a good blender with some good leaf is a magician.

8)

When I first tried Star of the east I thought it tasted just like engine99, but then I smoked them both back to back and tasted a world of difference

 

[brando71]

Star of the East, flake or regular. Billy Budd, too. Everything else is either under a different name by them (Hermit/GLP) which hold the rest of my favorites. C&D does a lot of stuff very, very right!

Then there's abominations like Mississippi Mud. :x

So I'm abominable... Mississippi Mud is my C&D favorite ever :cheers:

 

[elshano]

Votes since my last entry:
Pipe Smoker: Da Vinci
Big Casino: Star of the East ... Engine99 is better ... "a world of difference [between the two]"
Kaiser83: Epiphany - NEVER! Epiphany 2010 - YES!
Brando71 - Mississippi Mud (no argument here, 'cause I have no experience with it, and am too deep into N.O. music at the moment to argue with a blend dubbed with the name of the "big river" any way hope i didn't miss any)

Brando71, "feel no way" - I still haven't heard anything about Byzantium, so I guess it's even worse than Mississippi, according to it's lack of even one vote ... and regarding that blend from cakeanddottle@pipetobaccoreviews:

"Turkish, Perique and Latakia ... doesn't appear to be related to Red Odessa/Engine #99 ... jar note has a similar fermented fruit sweet tang ... fuller than Red Odessa, less full than Engine #99 ... focus squarely set on the Oriental component ... enough Latakia to keep you from dozing off ... Perique adds a bit of pepper ... don't get a very strong nic kick ... medium strength, medium bodied Lat blend mostly about the Orientals with a bit of Perique ... missing component in Lat blends that don't have either Orientals or Va. Less so in Va/Lat-only blends than in Oriental-Lat-only blends ... Byzantium sidesteps being a blend that draws attention to the absence of Va by throwing Perique in the mix ... a tangy note to a blend that teeters on deliciously sour ... never gets bitter ... tad oily ... Perique smells like heaven ... fermented fruit ... Lat here is medium ... $27.49/lb I may buy a pound to smoke on occasion ... not great but definitely good ... elements blend well ... not so well that you block out everything else ... "

It seems that from other reading, Byzantium may not be the best choice in the TPL direction. I'll have to cross that bridge later because right now, I have so much Mac Baren, Peterson and Stokkebye, that it's going to be a while before getting deeper into C & D. By then, with so many comments and votes here, I'll have a wealth of criteria. The obvious response to reading what others say about such and such is the matter of individuality, but when I know nothing of a blend, it's only sensible to check out the opinions as a useful guide to the unknown - and even if I miss responding to one or two, I appreciate everyone.

Obviously if 99% say "#1 blend" is the tops, it's probably well worth risking a sample purchase.

Hope my lengthy notes are not too taxing, if so, you definitely don't want the unedited version ...

 

[brando71]

I will try to be serious (very hard task for me). IMHO it's very difficult to proclaim the absolute winner in a brand with hundreds of blends, but talking about some sort of classification, I would pick

Atypical Blend: Mississippi Mud
Aromatic: Crooner
Burley Blend: Burley Flake #3
Burley Based: Canal Boat
Cigar Leafs: Bow-Legged Bear
English Blend: Crooked Lane
Liquored Blend: Blockade Runner
Oriental Blend: Rajah's Court
Scottish Blend: Strathspey
Virginia Based: Easy Times
Virginia Blend: Manhattan Afternoon

 

[LV9]

My favorite: Night Train, 2nd Bayou Morning 3rd Epiphany.

 

[bosun1]

I haven't sampled all of the C & D blends by any means but Epiphany is my light English. Just enough latakia to be noticeable and not enough perique to give me the drools!

 

[aadelma]

C&D has so many blends that I'm willing to bet any pipe smoker could eventually find something he loves, but it could take quite a few tries to get there. I got a sampler many years ago when I first started smoking pipes and eventually gave them all away. Over the years I tried a blend from time to time, but didn't find anything that wowed me until I tried Haunted Bookshop and Billy Budd. I regularly stock up on them both.

 

[BurleyLegal]

In my former days as a nicotine addict I was a devout Old Joe Krantz smoker. I also enjoyed Evening Rise, Riverboat Gambler, and Haunted Bookshop. These days I am a much more intermittent smoker, and as such I have developed a love for Pirate Kake.

 

[Storm_Crow]

I enjoy:

Cordial
Epiphany
Blockade Runner
Exhausted Rooster

you guys got me interested in:

Byzantium
Pirate Kake
Engine 99
Mississippi Mud

Everything else in this thread I've pretty much tried and thought it was ok, even the vaunted SoTE.

 

[SailorJack]

If you love VaPers than you have to try Poplar Camp.

 

[Brewdude]

Exhausted Rooster! :cheers:

This first.

Followed by OJK and Bayou Morning.

I'm sure I'm forgetting several more just now..........


Cheers,

RR

How could I forget Night Train?

Has to be one of my top 10 of all time!


:tongue:



Cheers,

RR

 

[gandalfpc]

Opening Night
Mississippi Mud (quite unique)
Star of the East
Bow Legged Bear
Pirate Kake
Good Morning
Evening Rise

 

[CareyBlueBoar]

Morley's Best, Star of the East and Old Hollywood...

 

[leftover421]

Christmas Blend 2012 "Chestnuts Roasting"


Cavendish/Latakia
Chestnuts Roasting" has a delightful muted nutty taste on a lightly aromatic
base. A hint of Latakia brings out the “over an open fire” part of the verse.

 

[Anonymous]

I have quite a bit of Byzantium which I was working my way through before I got a stash of H&H Blackhouse which oddly enough was in tins with C&D stickers under the under the taped on paper label.

Byzantium is good on occasion (Heavy Lat). I wasn't too impressed with Red Odessa or Star of The East but I have them jarred and will revisit them at a later date.

I also have blending tobaccos from them which are very nice. The Izmir Turkish is good pretty much straight. I have some home-made blends aging.

 

[femur]

I like Exhausted Rooster and it is the only one I've tried.