Cornell & Diehl Bayou Morning

Not bad at all but you know how it goes with pipe tobacco, subjective lol, sadly it didn't stand out for me as a favorite in its genre though

Bayou morning is a classic Vaper. I thought the perique is too much, but it really tastes smoothly with solid tobacco flavor. 30 bucks for 1 pound, great flavor and price for all VaPer lovers.

I must admit that it took me a while to understand this tobacco, now that I do I can write a proper review! When I popped the jar it was completely dry with an unpleasant and musty flavor (who said perique?!), like earth after it rained. In fact the first smokes in were harsh and clogged up my throath and made me cough hard, wondering where was the magic and where was the wonderful buttery and citrusy tobacco which the other reviews talked about. Not giving up I decide to try the last card in my hand: humidification. I let it a rainy morning outside the window in order to catch some humidity and then after a good lunch I tried again. It was another tobacco! The unlit marshy notes disappeared leaving a pure tobacco flavor, then the fire test expressed what the real nature of this tobacco is: buttery and not too zesty virginias with sparks of spicy perique. After that I had to impose myself smoking something else because for a week I didn't smoke anything else! I prefer it in medium sized bowls and I suggest to gravity fill it, don't press it too much or it will reveal its harsh notes and transform the pepper into hot chili pepper! Strangely I found it very harsh smoked in corn cobs, both dry and re-humidificated versions,I don't know why but I can only smoke it in briars.

I purchased this item as the reviews here led me to believe I would really like it. Unfortunately, this did not turn out to be the case - now I did not abhor it - its just that to me it did not match up to the fanfare it has received. I've consumed an ounce so far and tried it straight out of the tin and after leaving it to dry for 30 or so minutes and although it was somewhat better after some drying the large component of perique was a tad too much as I never was able to discover the sweetness of the virginia's I had hoped to find. That said, the tobacco was not entirely one dimensional but the dimensions seemed limited to perique and not perique. The burn was very good - easy to light and easy to keep lit with a light gray ash and zero goop at bowls end. However, I found I really had to be careful not to increase my rate and duration of each puff in a search for the virginia signature. If you simply cannot find another VaPer with enough Perique to satisfy you then by all means give this a try.

For a brief moment it is bright and citrusy. But that stops and the Perique enters like a thief in the night. Not for the faint of heart. The nicotine from the burley stewed in nicotine soup (Perique) is staggering. My heart fluttered a couple of times. Not in comfortable way.

Bayou Morning is for the pipesmoker who enjoys a nice, strong old time tobacco. Enough was said about the virginias and perique already. All I want to add is that it's a tobacco every sincere piper should have in his or her rotation. This is TOBACCO in the true sense of the word. You can't go without it.

Highly recommended.

i love VaPer but did not care for this it all. will try to use it to blend/cut with a cavendish or something else in order to avoid wasting the tobacco but otherwise i would not smoke it.

One of my favorite vaper non-flake blends. It just has a great taste from beginning to end. t also has a decent nic hit. For nic lovers, this could be an all day smoke.

Prep: Dried ribbon on sheet of paper 5 minutes, gravity fed and lightly tamped.

Appearance: Rather moist out of the tin, fairly uniform coarse ribbon cut.

Tin/Pouch Note: Strong vinegar and dried fruit (apricots) upfront. A little hot sauce in there as well; kinda like tabasco sauce.

Char and initial light: Incredible bright citrus sourness upfront, with a black pepper spice that was pretty aggressive on the snork. After the second light, a bready backbone carries those two flavors in a very round, very balanced. It's very clean, bright, and spicy.

As the bowl progresses, the flavors round out a bit and I get a lot more sweetness and a creamy richness. This did smoke quite wet, nothing a cleaner ran down the stem couldn't fix. I'll dry it out even more next time but I was impatient.

Nicotine was appropriate for a Va/Per. Satisfying but not dizzying.

Wife commented "That smells MUCH better than the last thing you smoked in here" (Pirate Kake). I picked up a very bready tobacco scent.