Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner
(2.85)
C&D's true Navy cavendish crumble cake is made with hand stoved red Virginia and golden Virginia, soaked in a premium rum for seven days, then lightly stoved again, pressed and cut.
The seven days are the time it took our seagoing forefathers to sail back to New England from the Islands with the tobacco in their casks soaked with rum. The ship on the label is the Advance, the South's most successful blockade runner.
Details
| Brand | Cornell & Diehl |
| Blended By | Craig Tarler |
| Manufactured By | Cornell & Diehl |
| Blend Type | Straight Virginia |
| Contents | Virginia |
| Flavoring | Rum |
| Cut | Krumble Kake |
| Packaging | 2 ounce tin, 8 ounce tin |
| Country | United States |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Medium
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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2.85 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 11 - 13 of 13 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jun 21, 2010 | Medium | Extremely Mild | Medium | Tolerable |
Being a Latakia lover, I use VA as a resting bowl, a way of cleaning up my smoking, or a beginning of the night start. This blend has a welcoming presentation trough a beautiful and appealing crumble cake, that easily breaks into small pieces to get into the bowl. Since I like not to rub flakes, I slightly broke it and fill the bowl with small pieces, not getting to a mixture aspect. Rum is just suggested into smell and taste, altrough some liquor was burning at the beginning. The rum note was slightly perceived at the beginning, but I clearly felt that it is a VA straight taste. For that reason, nicotine gets quicly into the taste and the evolution is quite flat. I will probably do not buy a second tin since some other Virginia, like SGawith flakes give to me a similar result, and here I was looking for a more aromatic option, the rum note being an uncomplished promise. But this is surely a good choice for VA lovers.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 07, 2005 | Mild | Medium | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
This is eye candy. I could look at these chunky little bars of krumble kake all day. They're beautifully packed & crumble nicely into the bowl. Tin aroma is swell. Too bad the taste didn't match the anticipation. The whole thing leaves me flat. I might like this better if it were dark stoved sans the rum. The same goes with C & D's Black Frigate. It would be better without the soused Jamaican in the background. Actually, they do have such a blend, and it's called Pirate Kake. If they could do the same with this one, I might enjoy it more. A bit too one dimensional for me, but I appreciate the effort.
Two and a half of five stars
Two and a half of five stars
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 12, 2004 | Strong | Mild | Mild to Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
A good pipe smoking friend gave me an opened tin of this rum-soaked crumble cake. Like a fool, I smoked a bowl late one night before turning in. I must admit it was good but it didn't floor me. I lay in bed staring at the digital clock: one, one-thirty, two, two-twenty-nine, two-thirty...good God, will this stuff ever give up?! I arrived at work the next day hung over and mumbling. My rec: smoke this early in the evening or better yet the late in the afternoon.
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