The Best of Cornell & Diehl

[kane]

Please offer your thought on the best blends from Cornell & Diehl.

The only blend of theirs of which I am familiar is Star of the East, and I think it's awesome.

My smoking experience so far being in English style blends, I would like to take advantage of SmokingPipes.com's current sale on C&D bulk and explore a few and expand my experiences into other tobacco styles.

I would appreciate hearing your thoughts on the best that this producer has to offer, perhaps the best in the categories of English styles, Virginia & VaPer styles, and Burley styles.
Thanks!

 

[Waning Embers]

Black Frigate, Pirate Kake, and Pegasus are my favorites from them.

 

[cobguy]

Hey Kane ... lots of good stuff from C&D!

Here's a few off the top of my head:
Burley based:

Big N' Burley - (a MUST try for Burley lovers!)

Haunted Bookshop

Old Joe Krantz

Briar Fox
Latakia:

Star of the East

Pirate Kake

Billy Budd

 

[crusader]

I really enjoy Habana Daydream and Pantation evening in a pot shape, it really prints favors out.

 

[forest7]

It's only my personal.

Aro.: Autumn Evening

VA or VAPER : bayou morning, Old Joe Krantz(Burley, Perique, Virginia)

ENG. : Billy Budd

 

[freakiefrog]

My top three or four are.
Opening Night

Star of The East - Flake

Kajun Kake or 5 o'clock shadow

 

[settersbrace]

Pirate Kake

5 o'clock shadow

Engine 99

SOTE (one if my personal all time favorites)

Burley #1

 

[seadogontheland]

Pegasus is good and so is the Cellar series, if you'd like to expand your perique palate.

 

[kola]

Night Train is a great blend..mostly burley with a sour perique flavor. Unique to say the least. It comes in a nice easy crumble cake as well.

 

[mso489]

I think C&D's non-aromatic burley blends are their very best. I also like Stratfordshire, an English.

 

[papipeguy]

Morley's Best

Pirate Kake

Crooked Lane

Joie de Vivre

USS Mason

and about 50 others. I'm a big fan

 

[jon11]

Love C&D....my favorites:

Opening Night

Sunday Picnic

Red Carpet

Exhausted Rooster

Kajun Kake

5 o'clock shadow
All heavily represented in my cellar

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Star of the East?
Orion's arrow is nice in it's own way.

 

[beastkhk]

Current staples for me are Old Joe Krantz and Billy Budd; recently Black Frigate has also been added into the rotation too.
I wouldn't really classify any of my picks as english. Billy Budd is probably the closest as it has a nice smokiness to it. Black Frigate if you like latakia(but I haven't seen in bulk).

 

[andrew]

Billy Budd

Nightrain if you want a high octane nicotine blend

Habana daydream is a pretty strong cigar blend, if you mix it 50/50 roughly with star of the east it makes a really great cigar blend that tames it plus adds a lot of depth.
Halav U'Dvash - Milk & Honey (Hebraica Series) for a really good aromatic that really isn't like a typical aro. Nice honey flavor but mostly tobacco flavor. Very unique.
3 friars for a vaper as well as bayou morning.
Calling Captain Bob to plug his Captain Bob's blend!! (Captain Bob is a member here who created a C&D blend)

 

[ericusrex]

Folks. The OP is axing about bulk blends, which are currently on sale at SPC. Lots of these recs are only available in tins.

 

[jfox520]

1. Star of the East

2. Pirate Kake

 

[saltedplug]

Not bulk and 35% perique. Don't participate in this buy unless you love perique and nicotine. But if this is a go so far, check out the "Bulk Chenet's Cake Group Buy" thread. Closes on midnight 5/9.
Bayou Morning has a more normal ration of perique and is potent, but probably 5 or 10 points below Chenet's Cake. BM nicotine robust, CC quite strong.
Good luck, Mike

 

[derfargin]

I'm a huge fan of C&D. While there are many blends I enjoy that are only available in tins, I know the OP is looking at the bulk stuff. For that I'd recommend the following.
Morley's Best

Epiphany

Billy Budd

Mountain Camp

Byzantium

 

[wyfbane]

If he's looking at getting bulk for SPC sale, don't forget the blending Perique and Latakia.
I also grabbed up 2 lb of Izmir. Rothnh got me started on that stuff.