Cornell & Diehl Sunday Picnic

Eccoci qui con un nuovo tabacco nato dalla sapienza di Craig Tarler.

Aperta la latta si è avvolti dal Virginia, quasi fosse un tabacco puro, poi escono in sottofondo i toni del tabacco orientale.

Un bel flake, giustamente umido che permette una carica immediata. Il top lo ottiene invecchiato in Bormioli per almeno sei mesi. Lo so che è tanto, ma così i vari tipi di tabacco possono esprimere al meglio le loro essenze.

L’accensione è lenta ma appena la brace si forma non c’è più paura di spegnare la pipa. I sentori sono un gran mix fra il pizzicore fruttato del Virginia all’aspro pepato del Turco, in una varietà sempre dinamica per tutto il tempo della fumata.

La forza media permette poi di ricaricare la pipa non appena la prima fumata è volta al termine.

A chi lo consiglio? a tutti coloro che desiderano un fumata ottima di gusti, ma non cerebrale, quando lavorano o studiano e desiderano un accompagnamento davvero superiore.

Conclusione 4,9/5

Sunday Picnic is one of the tastiest VA/Per & Oriental infused tobaccos I've ever tried. The combination of tobaccos meld together very well after the first 1/3 burns off to deliver one of the tastiest smokes of this genre. The apportionment of the various types of tobaccos seem to be just right to create a remarkable, well rounded flavor. If Yenidje, rather than Izmir leaf were used, it would taste similar to McClelland's Tudor Castle... another extremely tasty oriental blend that is "Gone With The Wind." Well, "That's The Way Love Goes."

It doesn't get much better than this & the oriental adds an extra dimension that creates a unique, well rounded flavor that will leave most pipers craving for more. This mixture smokes cool & won't bite. Although not overly abundant, there is enough Lady N in this mix to add plenty of extra pleasure to an after picnic dinner. Needless to say, C & D are "crafty" blenders. Many fine blends circulating & this Simply Elegant series is aptly named. This stuff will keep calling you back for more... especially if you're not too nitpicky & enjoy "picnicking," especially with a pretty young lady who knows how to "cook."

Back in 2010, Craig Tarler responded to an email I sent him shortly after this blend hit the market & thanked me for complimenting C & D on this Sunday Picnic blend & appreciated that I left a good review. I smoked both of my tins in less than a week and went back for more. I still love it to this day. I think it's a great value... around thirty $$ for 1/2 lb. I think I became more addicted to the flavor than the tobacco itself. Try it! You'll like it. I couldn't possibly comprehend why a piper wouldn't like it.

Sunday Picnic is one of the tastiest VA/Per & Oriental infused tobaccos I've ever tried. The combination of tobaccos meld together very well after the first 1/3 burns off to deliver one of the tastiest smokes of this genre. The apportionment of the various types of tobaccos seem to be just right to create a remarkable, well rounded flavor. It doesn't get much better than this & the oriental adds an extra dimension that creates a unique, well rounded flavor that will leave most pipers craving for more.

This mixture smokes cool & won't bite. Although not overly abundant, there is enough Lady N in this mix to add plenty of extra pleasure to an after picnic dinner. Needless to say, C & D are "crafty" blenders. Many fine blends circulating & this Simply Elegant series is aptly named. This stuff will keep calling you back for more... especially if you're not too nitpicky & enjoy "picnicking," especially with a pretty young lady who knows how to "cook."

Craig Tarler responded to an email I sent him back in 2010 & thanked me for complimenting C & D on this Sunday Picnic blend & appreciated that I left a good review. I smoked both of my tins in less than a week. I think I became more addicted to the flavor than the tobacco itself. Try it! You'll like it. I couldn't possibly comprehend why a piper wouldn't like it.

Perfection in a tin - McCelland-quality virginias. Golden, yellow pressed tobacco with orange fruit notes for a perfect Sunday afternoon smoke.

Will be stocking up on this one, along with Opening Night and Exhausted Rooster - all scratch that McCelland virginia itch.

I like Sunday Picnic a lot. It is dry tasting with hay-like golden Virginias in nice interplay with quite abundant, sour-tasting and tangy Izmir. Perique adds a well proportioned white pepper spiciness and although the tin note has the typical plum/figgy Perique fruitiness I do not sense any in the smoke. As I said it tastes dry, sour and spicy, has that sort of dusty taste of the Oriental tobacco with only traces of sweetness. Moreover if you sip a nice nuttiness comes through at times. Very good tobacco to use the "delayed gratification technique". Still I thought it would not appeal to so many smokers but I am surprised to see that it has – deservedly – very good reviews. I just did not think that so many people would like such a hard-core Oriental blend.

The flakes are soft and pliable, a little on the dry side but ready to just squeeze into the bowl for a nice, slow, cool, dry and natural tobacco tasting smoke to a powdery grey ash to the last shred. Room note is a little cigaretty, as is the taste admittedly. Really nice blend!

This blend is very similar to a blend my Grandfather smoked years ago. The room note is sweet and tangy, with a linger of campfire mixed with prunes (very subtle). Im used to lots of stinkier tobacco blends and this was nice for me, my car mate today though didn't seem to like it (shes a non-smoker).

The flavor is very well blended, the VA poked its head out halfway through the bowl, after the second lighting. The flake was well humidified, and straight after opening I lit up, and was in love.

This is a VAPER that you will love, and its not terribly over bearing.

I hear a lot of the slight Nic kick people are getting, I wasn't affected.

Its about 85 deg and 90% humidity out today, and even so the blend still was calming and peaceful. I will be smoking this often and enjoying every bit of it. As soon as I let the tobacco age a bit and breathe, Ill update for sure.

The tin note is Prune/ Plum sweet with a bit of smoke.

Please note though! I was a bit weary of trying this blend after reading the reviews. I didn't want to have a Nic headache at work. Boy am I glad I tried it!

Please, never be afraid of trying something new. The worst that can happen is you don't like it, store it up and try again later down the road. Tobacco does change over time and who knows, maybe the once broken relationship flowers to be a wonderful romance.

Happy Smoking everyone!

Destined to be a HOF tobacco. Tin aroma is sweet and sour, with a slight mustiness. I opened this tin in 6/07 to age, and smoked a few bowls since. This flake is only getting better.

Packing and lighting can test your patience, however you will be rewarded with a sweet and tangy flavor that always pleases. The perique and Turkish add just the right undertones to this near perfect blend.

My advice: Stock up and cellar. 4 years of age has done this right.

Ahhh, Sunday afternoon. You in your pink sun hat and dress, me in my shirtsleeves, braces, and my floppy white hat. A lovely picnic is spread before us: fruit, a nice bottle of Sancerre, olives and cheese. Tenderly you feed me an olive as I smoke my pipe and we let the day go by sans souci.

"Do you like my orange roadster?" I ask.

"It's very sporty, dear," she replies, "although I didn't think you liked high- impact colors like orange."

"I've changed. You've changed me. I feel....so alive!"

Other reviewers have extolled the wonderful tin aroma of figs and grass; the room note is nothing to write home about; but the taste, while a little strong for a Sunday afternoon picnic in June, is delightfully spicy with a full mouth of tobacco flavor and is highly recommended.

"More wine, my dear?"

I tried this one last spring, and it was excellent. I smoked the tin in record time, but did not order more right away-there are lots of good tobaccos out there. I just got another tin (2 oz, sent to me in error when I ordered a pound, but the seller is correcting the mistake). It tastes, insofar as I can recall, just as good, maybe a little more sweetness to it, but the main difference is that while the first tin contained a perfectly molded flake along the lines of Erinmore (I love that style!), this is more of a semi-broken, easily rubbed out flake. Since Sunday Picnic is a four star tobacco for me in either form, this is not a big deal. I still prefer the formed flake just for aesthetic reasons. Lovely aroma in the tin and in the pipe, burns well whether sipped or puffed heavily, and a fine mixture of flavors with the high quality Virginia predominating. I'm going to enjoy my pound whatever form it arrives in-maybe I'll get lucky and get the perfect flake version! Highly recommended!