Cornell & Diehl Epiphany

Opening this year old tin of Epiphany revealed loose, uniform ribbons in dominating shades of brown with some black thrown in for good measure. The tin aroma was fruity, and I could definitely smell the latakia component. The tobacco was a little dry, and clean to the touch.

Since my sample was aged for a year, the taste may be different when this blend is younger. An unlit sip brought a faint hint of the fruitiness, and the charring light brought almost a plum taste with some of the latakia making its appearance. Overall it seemed the nuttiness of the burley played in the background like the drone on a bagpipe with the latakia and fruity/plum flavors of the Virginia going in and out with each puff. The perique occasionally adds a hint of spice, but only rarely. Epiphany burned to a gray ash leaving a pleasant room note and a short finish. I have never tried the original Revelation that this blend was supposed to be emulating, so I have no opinion on how close the two blends are.

I enjoyed smoking this blend. I found it to be a milder English blend than what I am used to, but I really enjoyed the Virginia and burley components. I would recommend this to anyone wanting a blend containing latakia when it is not dominating the smoke. I will probably be buying more of this in the future.

Epiphany? I suppose it may be, depending on what you were looking for. If you are searching for a very mild (very little Latakia) English blend, well this is it. I prefer a bit more Latakia in a mild English blend, myself.

There is a very slight sweetness indicative of a very light topping. This is not an Aromatic blend. I found it pleasant and pleasing from pouch to the bottom of the bowl. I have a pound on hand and will smoke it because it is good.

Epiphany is a premium quality blend for those who desire just a spattering of Latakia (barely noticeable) and just a touch of sweetness in a tobacco that could easily be an all day smoke. Another winner from C&D. I give it four stars.

Damn you Tarler and Runowski!! Now I have to add another blend to my regular list of purchases.

After my first bowl of Epiphany in a Peterson's Kapet I thought it was a nice, pleasant light english blend with no bite. By the third bowl I had fallen in love with the blend. I smoked three bowls within a 4 hour period and still had no bite and wasn't tired of the taste!

Packs easy, lights easy, stays lit, good taste without any overpowering features, good nico effect, non-offensive room aroma, no bad aftertaste. This is neither sweet nor harsh. Just a nice, cool, even smoke for those of us who like English/Balkan blends.

This is a lighter smoke then my all time favorites - Nightcap, Odyssey, Crowley's Best but will join Peterson's Irish Whiskey as a must have smoke on a daily basis. Good for the 3 or 4 bowls in between the heavier blends.

When opening the tin I get a strong fermented fruit smell. I like the thick ribbon cut and the moisture level is good to smoke right away. Unfortunately this American/English is very disappointing. The tobacco is more cased than it's topped, I get this annoying cherry and honey taste way more than the tobaccos. A boring mixture for pipers who prefer their smoke as uncased as possible. A possible hit for aromatic smokers. It's a good thing that I can pass those mixtures around to fellow pipe smokers, who knows sometimes they find a keeper.

Virginia lover

I find Epiphany to be mainly a Burley/Virginia blend with just a very small amount of Latakia and Perique. Of the four tobaccos, the Burley is the most dominate but not overpowering. Each component seems to be added in a way that compliments the others. Seeing the large number of reviews that rate the “flavoring” i.e. casing at medium, a level usually commonly reserved for full aromatics, I was a little slow to smoke this blend. Epiphany is a very well blended tobacco, and it burns smooth and cool. I notice the fruit topping the most around mid-bowl but never overtakes the tobacco flavor. There is some complexity in this blend too. But I don’t consider this to be an English blend. I’m not a regular smoker of Burley forward blends and Epiphany isn’t going to change that fact for me, but I think that many will find this very much to their liking as it is very well done.

This is a blend that I have been meaning to try forever, for some reason i have not until now. I am a huge fan of Einstein and of C and D Blends so it makes since that i would like this blend. I also think that Craig produces some of the best burleys in the business, just love the taste. This blend has a somewhat spicy pouch aroma, with the Latakia and perique rising to the task here along with a top dressing that is somewhat fruity. It is a very mixed bag in appearance in the pouch, from a lot of very blonde collored flakes running through the browns darker to the Latakia. It has a ot of very large cut burley in it so one has to be careful packing at to not make the draw too hard. One loaded, I found I had to light it often and had to relite several times during the bowl. But, it was worth it. It had a very nice, creamy flavor, the topping giving it a sweetness that was not over the top, but just right, the burley giving it plenty of body and the perique and latakia, giving it a spice that changed back and forth as the bowl burned down.

It is a slow burning blend, bite free unless pushed too hard, then it would bark a little. But sipped, it had a very peasant sweet smooth smoke that I enjoyed a lot. It burned down to a grey ash with just a little dottle. It was a little moister than most C and D blends I have received and this might account for that as most of Craigs blends burn to a fine ash. While I did enjoy this blend very much, i can't give it four stars as it required too many relites. But I do recommend trying it.

C&D- Ephiphany

Tin dated 17Feb20. Tin note: plummy sweet smoky and earthy, I let this dry for a few minutes prior to smoking but found the moisture to have minimal effect on lighting.

Upon first light greeted with a nice touch of smokiness from the Latakia, and the first few sips follow along, as the bowl progresses I’m met with less Latakia and more nuttiness from the burley and pepper spice from the Perique. I pick up a slight citrus/plum topping, though not overly sweet does add to the dynamic of the blend, you may on occasion stumble upon a slight VA flavor, though it’s not ever overly apparent.

This is well blended and it’s combined parts provide a nice smoke, I can see why Einstein was a fan of the original and if it is anything like this it’s a thinkers blend.

Thinkers blend as in its flavor changes throughout the smoke, compliments each other well and on occasion you get a bit of the topping that just makes you go there it is.

A perfect all day blend for those who smoke a pipe and read or write, as I did today working my way through the western the searchers.

I find this to be a much better composed version of edward g Robinson by sutliff.

I bought 4 ounces of Epiphany about a year ago when I was looking for Burley-forward blends to try. This one is a blend of many different types of tobaccos and the balance of flavors is very equitable. There is both considerable depth and complexity to be found here; Epiphany has a cacaphony of tobacco flavors. The appearance is of mostly medium reddish-brown color with a fair amount of lighter leaf with some dark tobacco in the mix. The cut is mixed with some short ribbons and other random pieces. There were a couple of tough stem-like midrib pieces in the small portion that I pulled out for my bowls. I had jarred this tobacco in Mason jars a year ago and it was at the same moisture level as when it was when it was stored, which was just right for smoking. The initial flavor was Perique and Burley; the Latakia and Virginias kept a low profile. In mid-bowl the Virginias and Latakia made their presence known. The finish is pretty much like the middle third of the bowl, an almost perfect harmony of the four types of tobaccos. The high point of the bowl was the middle third when all of the tobacco flavors were in full array. This tobacco is of medium intensity, not overpowering but not a light blend by any means. The nicotine strength is medium as well. It is rich but not sweet; if there is any flavoring/casing, it is in harmony with the Virginias and Perique. Epiphany burns cool and dry. I smoked it in a Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentleman and a Comoy's Guildhall billiard.

This was the second of three tins I got at the end of our NASPC show this year; half empty but smokeable. I'm going to be blunt - I didn't enjoy this blend. It's tin aroma was somewhat weak and the smoking aroma was the same. I found it to be a dull and boring experience. There was nothing to make it stand out, among all of the stronger blends available to us, in the upper two thirds of the bowl. The bottom third of the bowl was, basically, tasteless and somewhat hot and ashy. Then it dawned on me; this was very much like how I remembered Revelation to be back in that dimly lit past of the early sixties. It was one of the OTC blends that I purchased from my main supplier at that time - my local Rexall Drug Store. I didn't care for it then and, similarly, I don't care for its current C&D emulation which, by the way, is rather accurate in it's formulation. Be careful what you wish for - two stars.