Jim's C&D Carolina Red Flake 2024 (Small Batch) Review.

[Sig]

I bought a few tins a couple weeks ago. I popped one, let it sit for a week, and now I'm smoking through it.
It has a good natural Virginia flavor and does have a few tough edges as you mentioned.
Gives my nose a bit of a tingle.
I will let the other two tins sit a few or more years.

 

[Merton]

I love Red Virginias. Bought 6 of these. Smoked three bowls and put all of the tins into the back of my cellar. This iteration is simply not ready to smoke now, way more than a few rough edges. As Sig points out it tingles the nose, almost like a perique heavy vaper rather than straight virginia. On the other hand, I opened a 2020 tin of CRF with perique and the 4 year rest resulted in a great smoke.

 

[ThermionicScott]

20,000 tins is alot kinda makes the small batch more of a medium batch. I even thought 12 and 8 thousand tins was alot. I miss the good Ole days when I had to be on the site when it dropped and might get it or might not, and it would sell out in seconds. That Might sound weird but it was a fun thing to me just knowing there is 20,000 makes me less in a fomo state to buy because the resell price won't change much. I'm all for more people getting ahold of the blend but if the next batch is 30,000 tins then I know it's all marketing. I love CRF but the hype Is fading with each release because each release just gets larger and larger.

If it helps you feel any better, it does seem to be sold out at most places now.

 

[Revnatorade C.P.G.]

I popped one tin and didn't think it had much flavor at all. I'll give the other tins I bought a few years to age. I'm sure it will be better with some age on it.

 

[pantsBoots]

I popped one tin and didn't think it had much flavor at all. I'll give the other tins I bought a few years to age. I'm sure it will be better with some age on it.

Haven't had any for a few years, but it was/is very young tobacco. I believe the intent is for the consumer to age the tobacco in the tin and smoke it in the future.