Cornell & Diehl Dark Burley

(2.83)
Blending Tobacco. A high grade, air-cured dark Burley from the fields of Kentucky. Mild, but delivering a fine flavor, this versatile leaf performs equally well as a base for your personal mixture experimentation, or a go-to, stand alone smoke.

Details

Brand Cornell & Diehl
Blended By  
Manufactured By Cornell & Diehl
Blend Type Burley Based
Contents Burley
Flavoring
Cut Coarse Cut
Packaging Bulk
Country United States
Production Currently available

Profile

Strength
Mild to Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

2.83 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 20, 2013 Mild to Medium Extremely Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
This has a lot of earthiness, and just a drop of molasses. But the marshmallow, very nutty, and slight chocolate notes are here, and it has the full toasted burley taste you're looking for with a little strength. Sometimes, I get a very small sense of toasted Wheat Flakes when I smoke it straight as well as a touch of bitter. It's good as a mixer, and on its own. The nic-hit is mild. Won't bite or get harsh, but needs to smoked at a reasonable pace, and not fast. Needs a little hydration, but will burn clean with a very consistent flavor. Needs few relights, and leaves little dampness in the bowl. Has a toasty, nutty after taste. Mild enough to be an all day smoke, but few will want to do that.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 25, 2015 Medium to Strong Very Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
I have been working through a 4 oz sample of this. It is an irregular cut similar to Big -n- Burley. The tobacco was delivered bone dry, and after a couple of bowls smoked this way, I began exhaling into the bowl to give it a little more moisture - John Patton style.

This is a nice burley taste. It is nutty and a little earthy. There is a slightly sweet, slightly bitter taste that works well for me. The aftertaste is a little sweet. My palate may not be refined enough to identify these mild toppings, but the sweet is too light to be molasses, and there may be a note of cocoa in there.

This was an easy smoke. It stayed lit and delivered a consistent flavor. It was not especially exciting, but it was a good basic burley smoke. This one is easy to recommend.

I find it a little stronger than most reviewers it seems, and I find it more in the category of ODF or HB with regard to nicotine.

Edit: 10/24/17 This is a great thing to have around to beef up something you like but find a little thin or weak on the tobacco end of things. Mixed 1:1 with an aromatic or Winchester (for example) gives them some muscle. I find I am using this more to mix than smoke straight these days.

I have smoked over a pound of this, so it is really a 3.5 on my scale.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 19, 2011 Mild Very Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant
FUN WITH C&D SAMPLES, Vol III No. VII

This was a one ounce sample from a friend that I smoked up in about 2 days. Um... I smoked the tobacco in 2 days, not the friend. Grammar problems! 🙂

Fairly dark in color and dark and toasty in flavor, this tobacco is the closest taste to Edgeworth Ready Rubbed that I've found. That's a bit odd in that it doesn't have the small amount of Virginia nor the same top dressing that ERR'd has. Still, the two are reminiscent of one another.

This came to me very dry and I felt no need to hydrate. The flavors of burnt marshmallow and toast came through top to bottom. No problems taking or holding a light, no tongue bite, no excessive moisture and excellent flavor. In short, this one was about perfect as a burley and as a tobacco blend of any style. The flavor is of the "nutty" burley variety rather than the "earthy" variety that C&D is known (at least by me!) for. I'm not sure what they did to this one but it's something that I can smoke all day without paying it any mind or that I can sit down and contemplate. Exhaling through the nose elicited further flavor excitement, and I'm amazed that more burley fans that regularly contribute to this site haven't picked up on this one. I parlayed that one oz into a one pound purchase. Excellent and very highly recommended! If you're a burley fanatic, don't wait any longer.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Aug 19, 2015 Strong None Detected Full Strong
Burley suffers from being too adaptable in a world where strongly independent flavors are prized. Its nutty harvest flavor occupies the middle of the tobacco spectrum, and like a chameleon adopts and accents the flavors of other leaf with which it is blended, but straight Burleys remain popular for their whole and solid flavor. Like Five Brothers and some of the aged Burley flakes, "Dark Burley" stands on its own as a singular flavor which reveals its many components as it burns.

The bowl starts with a strong nut or legume flavor, accented with a small amount of wintry bitterness, then gives way to a slight sweetness and a richer flavor like that of coffee or the smoke of a good wood fire. This melds into a denser and darker tone, giving this leaf its full strength as a wild and natural taste, at which point it fades away slowly into a faint sweetness with overtones of fall. Throughout this process, internal flavors rise from within gifting the smoker with alternating notes of hay, tea, a warmth like mulled wine and undertones of freshly cut vegetation.

A pipeful of "Dark Burley" delivers delivers a kick comparable to a 3/4 bowl of C&D's "Old Joe Krantz," which owes much of its strength -- by legend and lore -- to a mixture of Burleys including this one. This tobacco delivers strong, raw flavor like nature itself, pure untamed wildness. It burns well, smokes clean through, and has a nutty taste with slight bitterness and undertones of cut vegetation.

Although this Burley by itself lacks the spark of more complex blends, it delivers what smokers have relied on from this variety of leaf for aeons, which is a strong but textured flavor with enough nicotine to help with concentration on the most "burly" of tasks. It is better than most see it as, in my humble estimation, and can be the backbone of a powerful mix as well as a thoroughly enjoyable stand-alone smoke.

When I smoke with friends who favor "Prince Albert," I am prone to mix this 60-40 with that venerable tobacco, which both reduces the cocoa top note with undertones of wintergreen and pushes that blend up into the medium to strong category. However it is blended, "Dark Burley" is best packed firmly after a gravity fill and smoked slowly to allow the flavors to mature before tasting.
PurchasedFrom: Smoking Pipes
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 11, 2015 Medium None Detected Medium Tolerable
This is exceedingly harsh and bitter. I've made many attempts to tame this beast, but all have failed. My most extreme effort was rehydrating it by soaking it in Jim Beam and drying to the perfect moisture level. It was a total failure. I give up. I can only assume that this is different from the one reviewed by DK in 2011 because this bears no resemblance to the one he speaks of.
Pipe Used: Many different MM cobs
PurchasedFrom: smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked: fresh??? bulk
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 25, 2014 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Overwhelming Tolerable
I bought this for the fabled tobacco blending experiment mentioned in my review of C & D's Byzantium.

This is an ineffectual burley. Simple, with a boozy, whiskey topping at first light, it falls apart quickly into a harsh, tasteless, ashy nightmare.

The problem I detect here is the quality. Normally burley excels at simple and should readily take up and display well a boozy or whiskey flavoring, but this is just flat out crappy weed. This is the stuff they swept up off the barn floor.

You don't pay much for it, but even still you're getting ripped off.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 15, 2018 Medium None Detected Full Very Pleasant
Deep, rich and dark, but soft on the palate. This is a great blending component. It is somewhat fuller than White Burley, but quite similar in so many fronts. Perhaps one of the main differences is the sea air or salty profile of the latter, which is somewhat missing in this one. Also, Dark Burley seems to be sweater and nuttier, and if you keep an eye on your smoking cadence, it will reward you with cocoa and mocha undertones. Of course, this is highly subjective, but it is important to note the smoking experience is not uni-dimensional and that it will evolve into different layers or nuances here and there. Obviously, depending on what other blending component you might choose to mix it with, it will evolve into one thing or the other, but I believe the potential lies with red virginias, orientals, and perique. I have tried to mix it with bright virginia as well, but the zesty profile of this leaf tends to confuse the palate. The quality of this tobacco is quite good, and Cornell & Dielh presents it to you with no added flavours or casings, which is a bonus that adds up to its blending potential and capabilities.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 22, 2017 Medium Extremely Mild Medium Tolerable
Cornell & Diehl - Dark Burley.

Misnomer: it's not dark, but a medium brown, as you can see by the picture! The ribbons are mid-size and the pouch-note (I bought bulk but it can be bought in a 2oz tin) is sweet and reminiscent of a topping. Moisture's good.

When I took my first few puffs it tasted like a straight-forward burley. After the burn had settled I noticed, like in the pouch-note, an extra sweetness had developed: slightly fragrant, sugary, almost like cotton candy. Behind the sweetness we have a rugged, slightly caustic, burley flavour. The first quarter's a pleasant smoke, but it soon decreases, and becomes astringent. D.B. burns well, fairly cool, but can give me a spot of bite. Something which is almost certainly just me is it leaves a rough coating/sensation on my tongue!

Nicotine: medium. Room-note: tolerable.

Two stars.
Pipe Used: Altinok Lee Van Cleef: Friday pipe
PurchasedFrom: Smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked: New
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 04, 2015 Extremely Strong None Detected Very Full Overwhelming
I notice some earlier reviews differ from those of late, and I must say the latter(s) are more accurate. I have smoked my fair share of Edgeworth RR and this is about as close to it as capt. Black white is to Escuado. This dark burley is a horrid acrid excuse of tobacco, it reminds me of a cheap cigar wrapper and that's it. Dry as a bone and unpalatable in any combination. If searching for a base for custom blends, try C&D cavendish cut burley instead.
Pipe Used: St.Claude poker, MM country gentleman
PurchasedFrom: smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked: current production
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 30, 2013 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Medium Tolerable
059 - Dark Burley

Star Rating = 2.75

Rating Scores - 10 is the Best and 0 is the Worst

Pouch Note = 8

Room Note = 8

Flavor = 8

Bite = 7

Burn = 7

After Taste = 7

Raw Score = 45

Rated Percentage = 75%

Comment = Good Burley Taste, has a little Burley Bit, has a sweet After Taste
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