Cornell & Diehl Good Morning

This is indeed very close to the famous Dunhill EMP. The tobacco has a less aged taste and seemed a bit rough around the deepest edges of the smoke. Otherwise, this is an outstanding Latakia/Oriental/Virginia blend that is easy on the palate. The contents burn evenly and somewhat quickly.

A delightful four stars for Good Morning.

I think Craig Tarler "nailed" EMP with Good Morning Blend. I am delighted that he is willing to provide a noble replacement of a famous blend no longer available.

I have always favored mild English blends. I prefer Latakia in small doses. Like I use pepper on eggs, just enough to know it is there.

I also love the larger cut of this tobacco. It smokes very cool and very tasty. This blend meets all my expectations for a light English non-aromatic. Good Morning will be an ideal blend to recommend to the first time smoker of Latakia. All things considered, another four-star blend from C&D.

Visually this is much brighter than Early Morning Pipe. All other differences are very subtle. The bright and red VA offer hay and some sweetness. The Turkish leaf is herbal and floral with some exotic spices. I find the Latakia here slightly more dominant as C&D's Latakia is a little bolder & smokier than I find Dunhill's. I get a great black pepper note throughout the bowl that I don't find in EMP. Should Dunhill leave the market again soon I would be more than happy with Good Morning as a substitute for one of my favorite English blends.

I love this blend!

The tin aroma itself is very appealing... it is sweet and spicy, tangy, ripe, pungent and earthy all at the same time. Very strong and fragrant. I get a kick out of sniffing it again and again whenever I open the tin.

The leaf is golden in color, mixed with dark spots, and is cut in wide ribbons. Easy to pack in a medium to large pipe. Easy to light.

The flavor is sweet and spicy, smoky and creamy. I would classify it as medium early in the bowl, and gets fuller as you keep on smoking. The flavor to me is rich and satisfying.

The room note is strong for the non-smoker, typical of an English blend.

I can no longer remember Dunhill's Early Morning Pipe very well; I used to smoke it avidly when it was made by Murray's. I haven't tried the new production. But this tobacco seems richer and more flavorful than Dunhill.

It's great as a morning pipe. It also great to smoke all day. I even love smoking it at night.

One of my favorites, and it is highly recommended!

I really like this blend! Order me a crate of it.

Having returned to the pipesmoking fraternity just two years ago, I consider myself a relative rookie to the panoply of blends, vendors, and brothers of the briar. I enjoyed a pipe in my post-collegiate years, but with only minimal knowledge of tobacco blends, or smokers at large. This review, therefore, is based upon the writer's pipesmoking experience within the last mere 48 months, combined with cloudy images of a misspent youth.

I have been enjoying Cornell and Diehl's Good Morning blend since the beginning of my modern pipesmoking career. I've tried it in every pipe I own, and have dedicated at least two pipes exclusively to the enjoyment of this wonderful blend.

I'm not a big fan of C&D tobaccos generally. Because of my great love for Good Morning, I have sampled many of their other blends, hoping for another winner. From Billy Budd to Havana Daydream, from Burley Flake #1 to Old Joe Krantz, I've had my share of C&D blends. With the sole exception of Good Morning, I have found all other Cornell and Diehl blends to be too harsh and strong for me. Because of this, I find my enjoyment of Good Morning even more intruiging.

From the “inner tube” smell in the tin, the reluctant smoker is not reassured. Fortunately, the tin aroma is the sole objection I have about this blend. The moisture content is always perfect. The cut of this blend was perfectly chosen. Good Morning packs easier, lights easier, and stays lit better than any of the several dozen blends I've smoked. Cool burning, stays lit to a dry ash.

Now to the taste: C&D's Good Morning is as close to the perfect tobacco for my palate as I have found. The taste is extraordinary: at once sweet and tangy, yet rich, smoky and woodsy. It's the pipe tobacco equivalent of a big campfire breakfast: bacon and eggs, pancakes, orange juice and coffee, while standing over an applewood fire. The taste is harmonious and level on the tongue, but this is not a simple blend. The flavor complexity of Good Morning startles me every time I light it up. There are layers of subtle, complex notes from this pipe tobacco that I've never experienced in a glass of wine, for example.

I don't know about the room note of this blend, but the aroma to the smoker is as rewarding as the taste. Sweet, light, and smoky. Very rich and pleasant.

In conclusion, the complex nature of Cornell and Diehl's Good Morning would not be recommended for the novice pipe smoker. However, for me, Cornell and Diehl's Good Morning gives a rich, satisfying, consistently enjoyable experience. Let me know what you think: e-mail me at [email protected].

brogreggblues

This is perhaps the best 'first pipe of the day' smoke for me I've tried yet. There is just enough latakia to please my "English" sensibilities, and the orientals are a welcome 'waker-uper' on the palate. I usually begin the day with this and finish with the 063: Bayou Night.( With an expanding variety in-between, throughout the day.)

This goes extremely well with my morning coffee: home-brewed Starbuck's Italian Roast, black with no sugar. The Virginias in this one give me all the subtle sweetness I need in the mornings. And the latakia and orientals play well with the smokey sweetness in the Italian Roast.

I put down no room note because the wife makes me smoke outdoors. But the few times I've been forced to smoke in the car on the way to work it left a pleasant aroma that lingered until my return.

Because I enjoy this one so much for a day-starter I have tried is an an all-day smoke. It is perfect for the first bowl of the day, but after that I find I need something with a bit more of, well.......everything. That's not to say that one couldn't smoke this all day, I just find that it leaves me wanting more than it has to offer beyond the first bowl of the day. I usually move onto a heavier Balkan or English blend, or sometimes mix it up with a robust Virginia or Burley blend. To each his own.

This is another pair of C&D tins retrieved from the large tub of tins that I bought at our 2017 NASPC show (see King Weed 03-24-19 @ C&D Easy Times). Located at midpoint of the tub's layering, they bore tinning dates of January 2009. This is another blend I saw come onto the market in the early 2000's that I never seemed to have gotten around to smoking. There is a lot of scatter/chatter about this blend being a clone of Dunhill Early Morning Pipe and, while I disagree with that viewpoint, there are some similarities. When opening the tin, you get a similar color range to EMP from light tan through medium browns and some darker bits; but, the texture is coarser due to a wider ribbon cut. The tin aroma is in a similar range to EMP's, but slightly stronger in both the Latakia and the Oriental/Virginia realms. I've opened many tins of EMP in my time and they have an interesting and slightly sour odor behind the Latakia aroma. Here in this blend, I get a somewhat sweeter background aroma. When I lit my first bowl, with it's tall and narrow chamber, Good Morning began to speak to me in a vernacular that said - "place me in your top ten English blends". There are some blends out there that are so skillfully blended that they are an absolute joy to smoke, never let you down and just keep on satisfying no matter what pipe you light them in. I find C&D's Good Morning to be just such a blend. When I smoke this blend I can taste every component clearly and concisely and, simultaneously, I can taste the components working in unison to present a magnificent English profile. Craig Tarler and Bob Runowski, both unfortunately gone now, created a pipe blend that is, yes, an emulation of Dunhill Early Morning Pipe. At the same time they created a blend of their own design that stands on it's own merits. I have smoked this blend in all sorts of pipes in my collection and have since raised it's status to my all time top five. Speaking of fives; I would award this blend five stars if I could, but give it our highest ranking of four stars. If I loved this blend any more than I do, my wife would divorce me.

Very good quality. A satisfying VA blended with some orientals and a slight hint of Latakia. Sweet with depth and a hint of sour. Excellent all day smoke.

Many times comparisons are unavoidable, but sometimes they are unnecessary and even undesirable. That said, C&D Good Morning is an excellent mixture of great mostly lemmon Virginias and Orientals, delicately spiced with Latakia (no more than what you can find in Fillmore, now that we're into similarities). Is it an Oriental mixture or a mild English? I don't know. The main component here is Virginias, that is for sure.

Good Morning is a great smoke for any time of the day.