Cornell & Diehl Night Train

This blend grows on you it keeps on getting better the more you smoke it like all the blends I smoke I also smoke this nice and slow and enjoy it.

Very acrid tasting when first lit, this blend does begin to develop a flavor after the first few puffs. Unfortunately that flavor is one of a sweet soap. I have smoked this blend (rubbed) in a virgin cob, a meer and a briar mostly used with virginias. In each and every case the opening fruitiness quickly vanishes and I'm left with a soapy aftertaste. The nic does kick in on the second half of the bowl, and adding insult to injury left me with a sour stomach.

On the plus side it was easy to keep lit and burned very cool. A slow smoking blend.

I really have nothing to offer beyond what nesta and The Commoner had to say already. The burley and perique add a very satisfying counterpoint to the sweetness of the virginias, which are playing lead fiddle in this harmonious band. It's a wonderful blend that I have been burning through very quickly lately. Highly recommended.

Ok. Night Train is a blend that is not for everyone. I'll say that first.

When i first got my little cake of this bad boy, i packed a bowl and smoked some. At first note, i got some nutty, tangy, and spicy flavors in this.

If you would have asked me what i thought of the Night Train when i first tried it, i would have said "It's not that great".

However! I've smoked more of it, and it really does grow on you. The more i ride the Night Train, the more i like it.

The amount of nicotine packs a powerful punch, so if you don't like nicotine buzzes, or a high amount nicotine i wouldn't recommend this blend for you. You can taste mostly the burley & perique in here. However, at the end i have to say it's a very good blend that has a very natural taste with no added extras etc.

I would recommend you at least give this a shot!

Night Train seems to have me thinking in musical terms for some reason. This one is for all of you bass-heads out there. Night Train hits all of the low notes with gusto and power. Deep , Dark , Full with amped up power, there is nothing subtle about it. I appreciate and enjoy quality bass but prefer my blends more balanced with the highs and mids still present and clear. In that way I find Night Train to be a bit one-dimensional but it is certainly a high quality dimension. Smooth , cool smoking and with a generous portion of ole Vitamin N, Night Train is definitely a must try and with the low price is certainly a absolute bargain. I find it a touch monotonous and therefore I don't find it appropriate as an all day smoke but as an end of the night smoke with your favorite libation it will not fail to satisfy.

If you like your tobacco 'natural' without any added distraction of flavours, essences or aromas and with a nice nicotine content then Night Train should suit your requirements. I find the pressed cake form of production very agreeable as it tends to keep the flavours of the tobacco longer without drying out as quickly as many flakes do and Night Train I feel is a prime example of this.

A bright mixture of Va, Burley and Cavendish pressed and presented in a very appealing brick/cake form. No distracting aroma of cherry, chocolate, whiskey etc, the pure, raw flavour of the tobacco, most notably the Burley, with the addition of the nose tingeling sensation of the added Perique. For any smoker who is just making the transition from cigarettes to pipe then I would suggest you try Night Train. For seasoned pipe smokers this may be a little bland and unidimensional but decent enough for a change of pace if you're a lat freak like myself.

I'm really not very good at detecting room notes of tobaccos I smoke but the taste and strength of Night Train I would say are up in the high medium to full range. The nicotine content is very noticable without being overly so. All in all a decent change of pace for the lover of the more smoky latakia blends.

It's sweet, it's musty, it's spicy: these words are pithy descriptors when it comes to this tobacco."WOW" and "symphony" are more like it. I just had to give it my highest recommendation not only for burley/VA/Per fans, but also for lovers of fine, quality tobaccos in general. There were a host of things going on in my bowl while this was burning (and it burned beautifully into an ivory ash), none of which I can adequately describe like the other reviewers here. I can definitively say that I am more of a perique lover than I initially thought, and that I have Night Train to thank for this discovery (of course). Actually, I thank you C&D, and more specifically Mr. Tarler--please don't go anywhere anytime soon.

Received my bulk as a pressed brick that was rather dry and easy to separate. However, it's hard to leave as chunks for loading, especially into small bowled pipes, and when rubbed out you don't get what I consider a broken flake. Smoked dry and cool with a rich taste and enjoyabel aftertaste. I normally prefer true flakes and perhaps my packing technique resulted in my multiple relights.

This is the first blend that the whole "symphony" concept that other reviewers talk about made sense to me, all the ingredients of this blend are noticeable during the whole smoke with out any of the overpowering the other, this is not for the novice it takes some experience to appreciate this blend the perique presence is great the sharpness of the virginias are there the whole time along with their respective sweetness, the burley give this blend the presences to hang around your palate, the cavendish is there but the proportions of it has to be minuscule, the nicotine is great, I'm actually scare of this blend because I probable found my all dayer blend and is too soon for that in my pipe smoking journey, the only sensible thing for me to do is to buy as much as I can afford and start stashing away. The tin that I've been smoking has 4 years in cellar, the preparation is simple tear off and stuffed in your pipe light it and start puffing, but be warned smoke slowly if you want to appreciate the all the components, smoke fast and the bite tongue will get you. This blend makes me wonder why C&D do not offer more of their blends pressed?.