Cornell & Diehl Morley's Best

I like Bob R and I tend to like blends he's been involved in creating so I had to try this blend. I also like C and D blends. This blend has a nice tart and spicy pouch aroma and just looks good in the pouch, composed of multi colored tobaccos running from light khaki in color throught the brown spectrum up to a dark leaf which is the latakia. It comes just the right moisture content for me as do most C and D blends and it loaded very easily into my pipe. This blend contains a lot of burley and I love C and D burley, I think Craig is an artist making burleys. Upon lighting, it gave off that burley arom which I like a lot and the VA in it rises up quickly with it's sweet and tart flavor. The latakia is just a spice in this blend and I like it like that. The smokiness of this wafts in and out in a nice way but in no way dominates this blend. The VA used is a little hot and spicy, moreso than a lot of VA's I have smoked of late and I would have liked that tamed down a touch. But it was very smooth with no bite and overall the pipe full was very pleasing. I did have to however relight often, which I find irritating. This lowered it a notch in my opinion as it would be a great all day blend if not for that. It did burn dry and all the way down to a fine grey ash with no dottle. Over all, this is a very good blend but no one over the top. I could live on it but sometimes I just want a little more. A different VA and this blend could be great.

Morley's Best is a blend of tasty Burleys seasoned delicately with sweet Va and earthy, but restrained Latakia. No negative issues. Apparently a completely natural (non-aromatic) blend. Yum!

C&D seems to search the world over to find the greenest tobaccos available. This insures a harsh smoke unless the tobacco is aged at least a few months. I believe this accounts for some of the bad reviews of this blend. Were this a bargain tobacco, it would be excusable, but at this price point, it is not, so I take a full star off my rating for that. A real pity, too, because once you age it a bit, this is a first rate burley blend. It starts out fairly mild and steadily becomes more full. It has that nice old-fashioned burley flavor and aroma with VA for sweetness and latakia for fullness. The Latakia never overwhelms and my girlfriend actually likes the aroma. The more I smoke it, the more I crave it. This review is for the bulk (not tinned) version of Morely's Best.

Ive probably only smoked an ounce of this, maybe a little less. And I dont usually review a tobacco unless Ive given it more of a chance.However I think I can safely say, I wont be buying this again. My biggest problem with it is. Though there is no mention of cavendish in this blend. It has a flavor/mouth feel that is very similar to blends that have alot of cavendish in them. For me this is a big negative. It may not have any. Perhaps the mix of bright virginias, and the added flavorings, give it a gloopy cavendish flavor that always sends me away from a blend.

Upon opening my tin the appearance of the tobacco is that of small wood chips.The aroma was nice but not overpowering. I filled my bowl and lit my wooden match. Truthfully, I was not impressesd with my first bowl. I knew I had to give this tobacco a fair chance and so I did smoke it 3-4 times a day for a whole week. This tobacco did have exceptional note of that of a nutty and chocolate on the palate. The Latakia was not over powering by any means. This is a good smoke, however my Dunhill Nightcap and Frog keep callling me back

I wish this was more accessible. you have to order it only. I love this and it would be an everyday smoke for me - Great taste and with all the orchestra playing in tune - the flavors interplay each other and come to a crescendo. Great great smoke from Mr Tarler.

I love Burley and I love latakia. This is a great blend if you like theses two flavors. This is probably the highest quality of this sort of blend that one could come up with. It's barking dog with much higher grade tobacco taking him from the junk yard and making him a very classy pooch. what a combination. All day smoke at any season. and the room note as never got me in trouble.

I like distinguishedgentleman's review: A quiet friend who you know is there but isn't saying much. This is so much like all the other C & D stuff, but again, there's that oh so subtle tweaking of this and that on which you are unable to put your finger. I'm getting a bit weary of all this tobacco whoring I'm doing, and I'm trying to settle on about 1/2 dozen to 10 things I really could not live without. Thus, I'm glad I tried this, but I'm not running back for more. There's so many good C & Ds out there that for me, at least, this is just another way of saying the same thing a thousand different ways.

Three of five stars

Spectacular blend. The appearance is unique and the hetergenous mixture makes for a interesting smoke everytime. Chunks of the wonderful C&D burley, interspersed latakia, bold chips of pale white burley leaf, dashes of virginia not quite married, but all wed by common-law. This is so cool with a tremendously full mouthfeel, tinted wisps of humbled yet rich latakia working through the burley base. I find this to be less cigar-like than Haunted Bookshop, but is in the same vein. This is an all day blend if you like this sort of thing.