Details
| Brand | Missouri Meerschaum |
| Blended By | Cornell & Diehl |
| Manufactured By | Cornell & Diehl |
| Blend Type | Other |
| Contents | Cavendish, Oriental/Turkish, Perique, Virginia |
| Flavoring | |
| Cut | Broken Flake |
| Packaging | 2 ounce tin |
| Country | United States |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Tolerable to Strong
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Reviews
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2023 | Medium to Strong | None Detected | Medium to Full | Tolerable to Strong |
The Katerini Orientals offer plenty of earth, wood, herbs, floralness, vegetation, stewed creamy sweet and sour, tart and tangy citrus, spice, some smoke, mild darker fruit and light incense as the lead components. A notch behind them is the spicy, earthy, woody St. James perique which also dishes out a lot of dried, tart plums, figs, a little floralness, and mesquite. The aged red Virginias provide a lot of tangy ripe dark fruit, earth, wood, bread, mild sugar, tart citrus, vegetation, floralness, and small spice and vinegar notes. They are in the third position, but not much behind the perique because of the depth of their inherent fruitiness. A couple of notches above the condiment line is the sugary sweet stoved cavendish which heightens those qualities here, and tames a majority of potential rough notes. The strength and nic-hit are in the center of medium to full. The taste edges past the center. There’s no chance of bite or harshness. This broken flake blend is mildly moist, and I saw no need to dry them. Well balanced with subtle nuances, it burns cool, clean and a tad slow with a mostly consistent tangy sweet, fruity, spicy, floral, mildly herbal, creamy, sour, lightly smoky flavor that extends to the pleasantly long lingering after taste. The room note has some pungency. Requires a few more than an average number of relights. Leaves very little dampness in the bowl. Not an all day smoke. Four stars.
-JimInks
-JimInks
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 09, 2023 | Medium | None Detected | Medium | Pleasant |
A fabulous blend. Very nuanced but incredibly well balanced. Smoked fresh with no drying, I had no issues. With so much going on I was nervous it would be too many flavors, but it all burned cleanly together in a fairly mellow smoke. My tin was very broken flake, easy to prepare but not quite a flake cut by my standard. Not boring. Very enjoyable.
Pipe Used:
Kaywoodie Virgin Grain Canadian
Age When Smoked:
Fresh
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2023 | Medium | None Detected | Medium | Tolerable |
Tin note of raisin, spices and fermentation. Tobacco is a broken flake of reddish brown, dark brown and a little tan. Moisture content is ok, no drying needed. Flakes rub out easily. Burns slow, with a few extra relights. The strength is medium, nic is mild to medium. No flavoring detected. Tastes is medium and very consistent with notes of stewed tangy dark fruit, spices, bread, wood, floral, citrus, dry earthy grass, savory, somewhat creamy, mildly spicy, a sugary herbal hay background note and a peppery retro. Virginias are leading with perique, black cavendish and Orientals supporting. Room note is tolerable, and aftertaste is great.
Pipe Used:
Peterson Junior Rusticated Canted Billiard
PurchasedFrom:
Smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked:
6 months
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 06, 2024 | Medium | None Detected | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire
Blend notes: “Luminaire is part of the MMC Elite series. Manufactured by Cornell & Diehl, these three blends honor Henry Tibbe and the pivotal role he and his family played in modernizing Washington, Missouri's infrastructure. On New Year's Eve of 1892, Anton Tibbe, son of founder Henry Tibbe, brought electricity to Washington for the first time, after setting up the town's first power plant. The Luminaire blend celebrates that historic event with a flake-cut mixture of Red Virginias, Cavendish, Katerini Orientals, and St. James Perique.”
Luminaire is somewhat hard to describe given our current blend categories. The Cavendish (Burley) provides structure and moderate nicotine. The Red Virginias add a tinge bread and floralness in support — so this far we have a very competent VaBur.
However, Luminaire leads with the Oriental Katerini and the St. James Perique. These are the central actors. The Katerini is mildly creamy but mostly presents as spice with dark fruit. The Perique presents dried fig and sourness. So now we have a OrPerVaBur.
Luminaire lights easily and stays lit, with a moderate to heavy level of smoke. Burns reasonably cool. The blend has balance and good integration. You get a tasty, spicy-sour-creamy smoke. I can’t see this as an all-day smoke because it doesn’t stand out — the closest blend to this which I have tried might be Atalaya (Low Country) but its an unfair comparison, also, because Atalaya doesn’t have Cavendish; and unfair because Atalaya is way better than Luminaire.
This is a competent blend, reasonably balanced, but you have to be someone who likes Burley.
I’d give this 2.5 stars out of 4 rounded up to 3.
Luminaire
Blend notes: “Luminaire is part of the MMC Elite series. Manufactured by Cornell & Diehl, these three blends honor Henry Tibbe and the pivotal role he and his family played in modernizing Washington, Missouri's infrastructure. On New Year's Eve of 1892, Anton Tibbe, son of founder Henry Tibbe, brought electricity to Washington for the first time, after setting up the town's first power plant. The Luminaire blend celebrates that historic event with a flake-cut mixture of Red Virginias, Cavendish, Katerini Orientals, and St. James Perique.”
Luminaire is somewhat hard to describe given our current blend categories. The Cavendish (Burley) provides structure and moderate nicotine. The Red Virginias add a tinge bread and floralness in support — so this far we have a very competent VaBur.
However, Luminaire leads with the Oriental Katerini and the St. James Perique. These are the central actors. The Katerini is mildly creamy but mostly presents as spice with dark fruit. The Perique presents dried fig and sourness. So now we have a OrPerVaBur.
Luminaire lights easily and stays lit, with a moderate to heavy level of smoke. Burns reasonably cool. The blend has balance and good integration. You get a tasty, spicy-sour-creamy smoke. I can’t see this as an all-day smoke because it doesn’t stand out — the closest blend to this which I have tried might be Atalaya (Low Country) but its an unfair comparison, also, because Atalaya doesn’t have Cavendish; and unfair because Atalaya is way better than Luminaire.
This is a competent blend, reasonably balanced, but you have to be someone who likes Burley.
I’d give this 2.5 stars out of 4 rounded up to 3.
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