Cornell & Diehl Morley's Best

Oh my... not what I was expecting.

To me it was pretty harsh, and burned my nose like the dickens if blown out through it. Worse part is, I tried it at 4:00 pm and it's now 7:44 am and my mouth tastes horrible. I ate food, brushed teeth, drank strong juice, espresso... to no avail!

I don't want to scare anyone off but I think after trying it once more I will not be smoking this.

I have a tin of latakia and I like adding that with some other tobacco, or occasionally putting some on top of other blends in the pipe. I don't think it's that turning me away. To me it just tastes sour, spicy and harsh. Also, if this makes sense, it's almost how cigarettes smell. I don't like that smell, having never smoked cigarettes, I can't comment on the similarities in taste, but the smell is very similar. My wife was very upset when she smelled me smoking this one!

This mostly burley tobacco has a hint of latakia. Goes good in a cob, but burns too fast for my taste. Burley is so much better in a flake, so it smolders and lingers. Won't buy this again.

Bob Runowski has done the supposedly impossible with this tobacco: He has actually and factually revived the late and unlamented Blue Boar Mixture. If he (or anyone else) could do the same with the pre-Lane Ltd. Brush Creek, I'd be the happiest man around.

During my 35 years of pipesmoking, I've dumped out my share of blends that were just too sweet, hot, goopy, aromatic, etc.--but I can recall only two tobaccos I couldn't handle because of strength and roughness. Blue Boar was the rough one; John Cotton's Smyrna was the strong one.

Recalling the Blue Boar experience more than three decades later, I had to try this blend to see if it produced the same effect. IT DID! I would never have thought it possible. The same agressive harshness, the same nicotine whallop, the same fit of coughing whenever the tiniest puff gets beyond the mouth.

Stephen Vincent Benet began one of his poems, "Up in the mountains where the hogs are thin and razor-backed--wild Indians of hogs..."

If you want a wild razor-back in YOUR PIPE, then by all means have at it. If not, move on.

I’m torn about this C&D burley based classic. The blend combines plenty of ribbon cut burley, some cube cut, scattered Virginia flakelets, and approximately 6-7% Latakia by visual estimate. There is a musty, smoky pouch note. The Virginias give some sweetness and tang right up front after light up. These recede into the background as the burleys take over, yielding a rich, earthy, muddy experience.

Quite uniquely, I found that the condimental use of Latakia in this blend acts in the shadows and never makes itself known independently. I would liken this to eggs and baking soda being used to make pastries , yet no one would ever bite into a cookie and exclaim “Dude, this tastes like egg!” The Latakia is well folded into the batter of this blend, so to speak.

On the downside, I’m fairly sure the white dust that clung to some of the leaves was mold, and not Jeremy Reeves’ beard dandruff/cocaine (though that would be equally problematic). This blend also tended to taste more acrid and dirty after breathing a bit.

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.