Yeah, it kind of depends on the blend. Their Izmir comes extra dry, for example, but some others I’ve gotten were more moist.
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Maybe it was the B&M shop. Haunted Bookshop, Oriental Silk, OJK, and another who's name escapes me at the moment have been dry. Like maybe bottom of the bag? Not bad, smokable straight from the bag on the way home.
C&D brought burley from the codger OTC category to make it both base and condiment in a wide range of creative blends. This goes way back to their Pennsylvania and Morganton, N.C. days, but has carried through with Jeremy at SP/Laudisi ownership. In some ways, C&D did for burley what McClelland did for Virginia leaf.
Anything is possible. You made me check my jars when I got home ?
Old Joe Krantz has some moisture in it, though it’s certainly smokeable without further drying. Oriental Silk is always very dry every time I order it. I didn’t have to open that one. My Haunted Bookshop is about like OJK.
Could’ve been a long-opened jar/bag at the tobacconist, or just batch-to-batch variations. No telling.
The Bourbon Bleu, Oak Alley and Bayou Morning Flake are ones that I'd like to try some day.
Three Friars is the only I've tried, and I loved it. Not sure if it is topped with anything, or what it is cased with, but it has such a nice and subtle soft vanilla-caramel note. Somehow simple while being full, uncomplicated while being intriguing throughout the bowl.
I also have a Bijou cellaring. I'll try to get it to 5 years (currently about 2 years on it). And then I have a few other C&D tins cellaring, plus my fave bulks in jars, including Super Balkan and Stratfordshire. I definitely jive with what C&D are doing, but there have been a few I'd simply never buy again (including Pennington Gap and Autumn Evening).
Three Friars is the only I've tried, and I loved it. Not sure if it is topped with anything, or what it is cased with, but it has such a nice and subtle soft vanilla-caramel note. Somehow simple while being full, uncomplicated while being intriguing throughout the bowl.
I also have a Bijou cellaring. I'll try to get it to 5 years (currently about 2 years on it). And then I have a few other C&D tins cellaring, plus my fave bulks in jars, including Super Balkan and Stratfordshire. I definitely jive with what C&D are doing, but there have been a few I'd simply never buy again (including Pennington Gap and Autumn Evening).
I can say the Bookshop and OJK come a little dry, by design I think. For that reason, they make great stuff and light bowls, but some folks may indeed consider them a little too dry.
There are a few C&D blends that I like, but for me Bijou is on another level. My current open tin is from 2016, and it is superb. Add in the fact that it's not a special edition and it's even better.
Their 2016 tins make me leary. Especially any thing made between April and August.
Dare I open another can of worms and ask what you mean by this? What happened in the late Spring/summer of '16 in Longs, SC that makes you leary of its tobacco production?
Much recalled product with molded red Virginia tobacco.
Ah, that was my guess, as I had heard tell of the tale. But it was before I started my TAD in earnest.
I have one tin of Bijou dated Jan 2019. Should I assume it is in the clear, or should I open it now and try for a replacement tin if it’s fuzzy?
You’re almost certainly good, but there’s never a guarantee in the aging game.
I got Bijou as the replacements for 2 tins of Carolina Red Flake that were moldy. So far, no mold with the 1 tin of Bijou I opened (it's fantastic), no idea yet on the other one. We'll see.
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