Cornell & Diehl Mountain Camp

Great stuff....I loved it in the am with my coffee on my ride to work. Also great standing out in the cold on breaks. I'll always have a love for it, but C&D and Pease did it one better with Deacon's Downfall. Definatly give it a try. Can be spicy if puffed to hard...B.o.b can be bitter at times, through I found no ryme or reason for this...

A very nice English-type blend. I smoked some Squadron Leader after a bowl of Mt. Camp and it tasted rather weak by comparison. If you think S.L. is strong avoid Mt. Camp. A very nicely balanced mixture with a rather rich and assertive Latikia presence. I don't rate room note as I smoke almost exclusively outdoors. Update: As a first English of the day, the Latakia was strong and a virtual solo act. Could venture to say I never tasted anything else with the slightest hint of Burley. No Perique at all Virginnia a no-show. Think Latakia.

Upon opening Mountain Camp, I get the expected latakia tin note. The tobacco is near perfect moisture and ready to light (perhaps a little dry time).

Latakia is the lead after lighting giving this a nice smokey, leathery start. Perique and Virginia come through as well with a dark fruit, figgy flavor and that spicy perique tongue tingle. The perique becomes even more noticeable during the 2nd half of the bowl, and even seems to edge out the latakia at times.

Overall, an enjoyable smoke, but a tad too periquey for me to consider it a favorite. Recommended for just about any English fan, and highly for perique lovers.

This is a great tobacco. I highly recommend it. It's pretty much become my go-to tobacco, especially for the first pipe of the day and the last at night.

This is an excellent C & D blend made especially for the warm & homey Jack's Tobacco. This, along with Pirate Kake & Cordial ought to be tinned. Mountain Camp brings to mind other C & D blends I've tried: Black Duck mild? Valle Crucis without the ginger? Not sure, though this has a surprising interplay of flavors & aromas, especially near the end of the bowl. The perique & latakia play off each other nicely. I'll say it again: I am amazed at how C & D & McClelland can take basically the same 2 or 3 themes & create subtle variations on each. I'm not a lover of bulk blends, but this is really one worth trying. Get some if you visit Jack's.

Three and a half of five stars

In appearance, Mountain Camp is a dark blend. Predominantly blackish brown with the occasional light leaf here and there. The aroma is all Latakia.

According to the description, there is supposed to be some Perique in this blend, but you won?t notice it in the aroma, nor when you light up. It has a full, rich, smoky Latakia flavor, a flavor that reminds me of Syrian Trawler. It?s a rather dry taste.

Latakia dominates, and the other leaf in the blend acts as condiments. If you love Latakia, that is good. If you are looking for depth and complexity, that is bad. There is a bit of a spicy undertone to the smoke that could be the Perique, could be Syrian Latakia, could be Turkish/Oriental. Frankly, I can?t tell. Exhaling through the nose suggests a hint of Perique.

Mountain Camp is a slow burning, cool smoking blend with tons of flavor, albeit a bit of a monochromatic flavor. There is no artificial flavoring added. It?s OK smoked on its own, but I believe it would also do well if you used it to jack up the Latakia content in a blend you found lacking.

The room note, as you might expect, will not make you popular among Latakia-phobes. Smells great to me though!

20230428 edit: coming back to this after a while, and it's really not great. "Ashy" is the first thing that comes to mind, and some perique influence which I'm not generally a fan of. Think I'm done testing this one, definitely not for me.

Mostly taste the Latakia, but the perique is noticed in biting qualities and must. I want to say I can detect the Orientals, but I can't really describe them except to say they lighten things up some. There's some complexity here, but not in a way I'm really looking for. Latakia tends to overwhelm my palate, and when I get a craving for it, there are many other options I'd prefer -- included among them straight C&D Latakia. I don't love the additions here, but I can see how someone else might.

Mountain camp is a very tasty English blend. The mixture works very well and reminds me of another C&D English blend, like plantation evening. The latakia and orientals complement very well the tobacco mixture. It smokes very well in a long smoke and like the name, works completely well for walking or an evening in nature.

This is a lat bomb that burned the crap out of my mouth it was so bad I couldn’t even make it through a bowl I love Latakia but this was to much I’ve smoked straight Latakia and this had more a taste of Latakia in it than that did and I love the stuff but not in this