Cornell & Diehl Dark Burley

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.

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.