Cornell & Diehl - Autumn Evening pipe tobacco reviews

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Smoke_Ring	05/02/2013	Very Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant
Cornell & Diehl Bulk No. Autumn Evening Star Rating = 4 Rating Scores - 10 is the Best and 0 is the Worst Pouch Note = 9 Room Note = 9 Flavor = 9 Bite = 9 Burn = 9 After Taste = 8 Raw Score = 53 Rated Percentage = 88% Comment = Very Smooth, Very Mild, Big Maple Flavor, but it's a little Sweet
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aktour2000	04/26/2013	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant
Bowl after bowl, and never a let down. The tin note was very sweet, and since I have a sweet tooth, knew this was right up my alley. Ordered 16 oz to cellar and let it age to see if it helps, or harms. As Siskel and Ebert used to say, I give it two thumbs up.
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gandalfthegrey	04/24/2013	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I am writing this review as i am smoking this great offering from c&d. I just got this in the post today and was very excited to try it. Now i am a pure latakia junkie and really have no time for aromatics and tongue bite i usually get from them but boy was i surprised with this one. On with the review upon opening the tin i was hit with a very strong maple casing delicate it was not, i thought i was heading down a slippery road! Moisture was fine can do with a little airing out. I grabbed my meer and loaded it up first impressions was a sweet taste from the red va's but not sickly. I can't taste anything chemical at this point and my tongue is fine. Flavor is the same until half of the bowl and the room note very nice the wife was loving it and i was enjoying myself puffing away. And then it hit me pancakes and maple syrup thats what this stuff tastes like wow!! After the second half all i could taste was a lovely pancake flavor and the sweetness now has died down but ever so gently in the background. Guys try this one out it really does deliver and great for a change of pace look its not complicated but it is what it is. I will be buying more of this just to liven things up. Well done C&d and thank you for this wonderful experience! I felt like a kid again and it brought back some wonderful memories.
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Laserboy	03/17/2013	Medium to Strong	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant
I like the occasional aromatic, but I'm not a great lover of aromatics. I think this is one of the reasons that I enjoy Autumn Evening so much and, conversely, why some folks dislike it: It doesn't really tickle the parts that true lovers of aromatics desire to be tickled, but it is, unabashedly and undeniably, an aromatic. So, if you're looking for the next "Middle Earth" or "Blue Note" (two of the best aromatics ever made, IMHO), then Autumn Evening won't do it for you. But if you're after an eloquent Virginia then the heavy casing will turn you right off. Autumn Evening gives us a very pleasant VA that is, nevertheless, very heavily cased in a strong (I don't know why the CD people characterize it as "delicate"--there's nothing delicate about it) flavor. The casing is delicious and it lasts to the bottom of any sized bowl I've ever tried this in. The natural VA background remains throughout. And the nicotine is delightfully present from beginning to end. And SWMBO enjoys the aroma. What more could one ask for? Despite its name, I enjoy Autumn Evening on cool mornings. The pancake flavor coupled with the undeniable nicotine hit make it a fine smoke when there's a fog on the ground and things are crisp and lovely. Great with a cup of coffee or tea. It can bite a teeny bit if disrespected, but it does take some doing to get it into that mood. I like it crunchy dry--moisture impedes its lovely burning characteristics. This is a good one for the cellar.
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Latakiafile	12/12/2012	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I began smoking aromatics when I first began smoking a pipe years ago. Since then I like many pipe smokers have moved on to English blends. Wanting a change of pace I was looking for a good aromatic that had flavor along with the aroma and this one has everything, a great aroma before lighting, a good flavor when lit and a pleasing room note.Autumn Evening leaves no goop in your pipe, it burns clean clear to the bottom of the bowl. Don't smoke it too fast it can bite but over all it is a tobacco I will buy again. This is a good solid aromatic that is a cut above the others.
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albfneto	10/31/2012	Medium to Strong	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
This is claimed as a heavy aromatic, full of taste, full of flavour Really it have a lot of Maple flavour, bu mainly in the Room notes... The taste and flavour remains in the Room, in the Pipe, in the hands, but not muck in mouth or in the smoke...! In the smoke... it becomes almost tasteless, but good Also, it is strong in Nicotine for a typical aromatic. 4 stars, very good, but not will amasing for people that not like aromatics.
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CanAsianPiper	10/09/2012	Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Pleasant
Well I pretty much ONLY smoke aromatics. Upon first opening my tin, I got punched in the face with Maple. As being Canadian, we do love our maple, and this was definitely the case. All I wanted to do was leave the tin open and eat the tobacco, but instead packed my pipe. The tobacco was a bit dry straight from the tin, which I didn't mind since it's by weight, and I don't want water to be weighed. So I added a few sprinkled of distilled water until moisture was to y liking. I didn't get any taste of any chemical products to keep moisture levels, which is good. The first few bowl burned quite hot and flavorless, I assume being a newbie and having a pipe barely broken in didn't help one bit. It got to the point where I didn't want to smoke it anymore, so i let it sit in a sealed jar for about a year. Came back to it a year later, and the smoke was MUCH more pleasurable. I dried it out for 10min then 3 step gravity packed it. Set up in the yard and fired it up. It is now much better than last year. Maybe the ageing mellowed it out a tad, or that my pipe is comfortably broken in and i'm more experienced, but I like it much more than I did beofre. This will be added to the rotation again.
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alfa	09/17/2012	Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I don't like aromatic tobaccos too much. but this is really no bad
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Jallen49	08/11/2012	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
Sad to say that I finished off the remains of my tin today... SOLID aromatic. Nothing bad to say about this blend. No bite, little goop and gargle, too bad all aros can't be like this. Good quality Virginia's with a pancake/maple syrup/caramel note to top it off. I'm not sure why but this blend truly does taste the best in the autumn. The popularity and good reviews from this site say it all. You cannot go wrong with this blend, buy some immediately! Also I had my tin for a total of two years and the aromatic note never diminIshed whatsoever. Very highly recommended!
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kaywoodiecanuck	07/07/2012	Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I bought 16oz tin of this and was quite excited to smoke it. I loved the idea, the tin note was not exactly fresh maple syrup but nice, really needed to dry this one out. I set out small amounts to smoke and left the overnight. The in my larger pipes the smoke as a bit hot, wet and I could not really catch maple. My wife smokes 2 of my smaller pipes, one a campus...not a great pipe but small bowl small bore and in that pipe it was a treat. Like all treats great once in awhile but not something for daily intake. I gave this 3 stars for its room note, tin note, and smoke after drying it out a lot and in the smaller pipes. I would have gone 2 had I based this on my experience with this in my larger pipes. Next time a small 50g tin will suffice.
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SmokingMySav	06/03/2012	Mild	Extra Strong	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
This was my first venture into Cornell & Diehl tobaccos and probably the last one. JESUS CHRIST! Could you flavor tobacco any more than this?!? You are literally smoking maple syrup! Ghosted my pipe, ghosted my mouth - for days after I was tasting maple syrup. The flavoring is waaaay over the top. If they were to use 1/10th of the topping - it would've been a very pleasant smoke. Until then - you are better off just drinking some maple syrup instead. I really wanted to try some of the other C&D tobaccos, but I am way to gun-shy now.
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TallPuffO'Burley	05/22/2012	Medium	Strong	Medium	Pleasant
Still in my first year of pipe smoking, I have already jumped the aromatic ship in favor of the english blends, VAs and Vapers. Although my pallate finds this blend to be far too sweet, I have nonetheless given this a three star rating as to avoid sinking the ship and adding to the ire of the passengers aboard. I have read too many reviews of aro smokers furious from the condescension of us who no longer enjoy these blends. To a large extent I feel this is justified as giving a blend like this a one star rating whilst a drugstore OTC aro carries an average of two distorts the objectiveness of the ratings. So out of this objectivity I have given this three stars as the leaf is quality and I do not experience that nauseous feeling I get from ingesting a chemical laden pulp. Now to the subjective. It is still important for us non aro smokers to rate these blends as we use these reviews as our own personal journals and the more you smoke you tend to forget. I did find this to be far too sweet, but it is really the only bad thing I can say about it. So for the subjective I would give it two stars. One higher than an OTC chemical dump.
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SteelCowboy	05/07/2012	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Autumn Evening is a sweet smelling aromatic from C&D. The pouch scent is that of maple syrup. After some needed dry time, it packed with ease and smoked with ease. The maple scent doesn’t translate well to the smoke as the taste is sweet, rather than maple in flavor. The good news for me is that red Virginias generally don’t like me, but I had no problem with AE. When I want a Maple aromatic, I prefer Vermont Maple Cavendish from Pipeworks and Wilke, but still worth a try for lovers of maple aromatics.
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Bishop_Pipe	04/05/2012	Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
I agree with some of the more recent reviews of this blend, in that it smells like maple, but the taste maybe is just more of a general sweetness than particularly maple. Opening the tin, the maple rushes and hits you straight away, doesn't smell like maple flavoured tobacco, smells like pure maple. Which is lovely! It requires a bit of drying as its a "sticky" aromatic. But loads very easily and if sufficiently dried, it lights well. The cased virginias are present are pleasant, but the taste isnt really maple, more a general sweet taste, which is still pleasant, and the taste carried on towards the end of the bowl, it didnt run away like many aromatics do after 3 puffs! Just remember to puff gently, to much will cause it to get hot and you'll get tongue bite. I guess i'd recommend because although to me it doesnt really taste like it says on tin, its sweet tasting and smells great. An enjoyer of aromatics would like it.
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THESSALONIAN	02/25/2012	Medium	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
A very strong Virginia. Can bite if pulled. Use a small bore pipe and sip it slowly. Then it very nice, but strong. I don't taste much maple flavor, but I do smell it for hours after even though I don't smoke inside. Excellent burning qualities. I don't have a problem keeping it lit, and it lasts a while.
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L. McQueen	01/22/2012	Medium	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
This blend was recommended by a friend with a real sweet tooth so I decided to try the bulk sampling of it. If you like maple and sweet aromatics I think you will definitely love this. I only smoke a small amount at a time and it takes care of the sugar fix. Very pleasant room note. Recommended for those with a very sweet tooth.
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Trippwire	01/15/2012	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant
I smoked this tin over a few months. The first month or so, it seemed overwhelming with maple flavour. So much so that I wasn't really a fan. As time wore on it faded a bit and became very pleasant. There is enough nic in this to make me feel crook after 2 big bowls. I like this better than Mc c's town topic which was far too weak, but it could be better if the maple was a bit more subdued. I probably won't buy this again, but I did like it, particularly after a big dinner. If you like this type of tobacco, it makes a good dessert smoke.
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musicman	01/11/2012	Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Very Pleasant
Being the good old, fourth generation northern Vermonter that I am I know Maple Syrup. I know it well enough to say I spent a good amount of my teenage years working to sugar houses collecting buckets and boiling. That being said Autumn Evening does not have a "real" maple flavor, it just kinda tastes sweet. That being said this stuff is really good, especially for an aromatic. The flavor is sweet, it burns pretty cool, and the room note is par excellence. Surprisingly, there is a little vitamin N there, and being so sweet this blend sneaks up on you a little, its not a lot, but it is there. An excellent choice and a very elegant aromatic. Highly recommended.
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flakey	01/07/2012	Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
Red virginia cavendish eh? Well, it can bite a little if you hurry it, but with even decent technique, bite is no real concern. I was sitting on the back porch smoking this last fall. My wife's friend remarked that it smelled like a vanilla cupcake, so... okay. More moist in the tin than the typical C&D offering usually is, but nowhere near the level of goopy that Altadis' aros are famous for. Also, no PG that I could tell (I don't think C&D ever uses PG anyway), so no chemically taste. I think it tastes like waffles - mapley and buttery. Plus, the casing doesn't overpower the tobacco. Yes! You can taste tobacco! And it has nicotine too! Does it get any better than this for an aromatic? Only thing is, since there's no preservative to speak of, once you pop the tin, I recommend to smoke it up relatively quickly... the casing will begin to fade after a couple weeks.
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meerkat	01/07/2012	Medium	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
Tastes just like it smells in the can - maple syrup. I don't love many aromatics but I do love this one. A rich, sweet, smooth tobacco with not a trace of harshness or bite. Has a great smell for bystanders and a cool illustration on the label. If this is indicitive of the quality of the rest of C&D's tobaccos, I will be smoking them a lot. As I don't live in the Land of the Free I have had to order this (and others) over the internet from US based tobacconists. All of the companies I've dealt with have been very reasonably priced and quick to dispatch the packages. I've kept the orders small (200-300 grams total weight of tobacco in sealed tins) and had no problems with UK customs.
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