Anyone actually like Cornell and Diehl?

I had several C&Ds and can’t say I really liked any of them. The Virginia in every one of them seemed to have a unique taste which I didn’t care for much. However, I do really like Star of The East, but that’s the only one that I have bought again. I have been smoking for a few years now, and my tastes and preferences continue to grow. I am actually planning on buying a few C&Ds and GLP tins after the holidays. Don’t throw them out if you have some. Let them sit for a while and revisit them in a year or so.

A few years ago I scored a bag of Penzance in a tobacco shop for $45. I didn’t know what it was other than everybody on the pipe forums seems like they would give away their children to obtain some. I had only a slight taste for Latakia at the time. I smoked a couple of bowls and didn’t like it much. I threw away the whole bag. I’ve had a tin or two since and really enjoy it, and just like everyone else, I go crazy keeping an eye out for it.

Well, read the thread...checked the cellar...I only have 3 of the C&D blends to my name...Jackknife Plug, which for me has a healthy nic hit, SixPence...which I'm still trying to like, and Jolly Old St. Nicholas which I haven't popped the tin yet...so, my opinion is that I probably shouldn't have commented on this thread.

Perhaps panther piss is a seriously underrated beverage.

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I have a bunch of G.L. Pease tins and C&D. Mostly I buy bulk now but add every so often to the tin pile. At risk of starting a full on war, I would buy from C&D/G.L.Pease before ever buy Esoterica. Not one of their blends tripped my trigger, ever. Granted it has been a long time since I have had them but I tried a lot of them and was not interested in trying them ever again.

I'm  on your side !

So, in my last smokingpipes order, I decided to throw in some bulk Haunted Bookstore and Old Joe Krantz, just to try to dip my feet into Burley. Well, to make a long story short, the Old Joe Krantz just absolutely didn't do it for me. I dumped out the bowl less than halfway through, and I applaud myself for making it that far. But, the Haunted Bookstore.....isn't bad. I've smoked 2 bowls and I don't dislike it. There are definitely other blends that I picked up that I prefer (MMMMM HH Old Dark Fired, and surprisingly, Sutliff 515 RC-1), but I'm gonna smoke through the 2 ozs that I got and see what I think

Try Pegasus some time.  OJK, HB, and Pegasus are the Bob Runowski blended triumvirate of C&D Burley blends.

Old Joe Krantz can definitely be more on the “ harsh “ side if smoked fresh......even if air dried. I find OJK needs at least a year of aging to become much more mellow and smooth to the palate. 

   Do you see mold? Smokingpipes will exchange the tin with same or another of your choice. Give them a call.

OK OK, y'all have twisted my arm. I'll order some Pegasus next week

Had several C&Ds. Like some, don't like some. Just my tastes. Smoking a C&D Innsmouth right now, which I am really enjoying. Also love GL Pease, which is blended by C&D.Can't stand Haunted Bookshop. or Old Joe Krantz. I do not like straight Burleys. But I do think C&D's Latakia forward blends are pretty darned good. 

That's like the people complaining how bad Prince Albert, Carter Hall, Borkum Riff and Captain Black are, yet people have been smoking them over 50 years and they aren't going away anytime soon. Captain Black keeps releasing new flavors.

Comparing C&D to McClelland, or one of the quality overseas blenders, like Germain's, Gawith, Gawith & Hoggarth, MacBaren or K&K, is like comparing apples to oranges. C&D doesn't follow the older tradition of aging and fermenting their blends over a long period before tinning them. When I took up the pipe in the very early 1970's you didn't think about cellaring to age blends because the blends and tobaccos you were buying had largely been well aged before release. A case in point is recently departed STG Royal Yacht. When Dunhill actually made it, it didn't have a heavy topping that mimicked fermentation because the blend had been aged and fermented before it was considered ready to be released. That's more expensive to do. So C&D puts out young tobaccos, which is pretty much what I think Stokkebbye does, and lets the consumer to bear the cost.

C&D is barely represented in my cellar, just Bijou, Carolina Red, and Yorktown. I'm not a huge consumer of either English or Burley, and by and large I find C&D Virginias less interesting. But I love Yorktown. They're known for having some of the best Burley around. But they don't have the McNiels, nor the kind of leaf that the McNiels required and ultimately found getting too difficult to locate. C&D is not that kind of operation. They do produce a wide variety of blends that smokers like, and in the last analysis, that's all that matters. I have plenty of other blends that satisfy me, so not having much C&D doesn't really matter to me.

EDIT:  I do have quite a bit of GL Pease, but I don't think of it as C&D, because it's a separate pipeline, Greg isn't limited to C&D components, and he's monitoring those blends that they blend and tin for him.