Cornell & Diehl Three Friars

This as good as a blend can get IMO. Perfect strength. Excellent burning properties. Wonderful taste from start to finish. Seems like it gets better over time. Cellar some away for 6 to 12 months and what you got is nothing short of magical. Can't say enough about C&D. The best tobacco people in the world.

This is billed as being similar to the now long gone but not forgotten Bell's Three Nuns. The only similarity here is the "Three" in the name. I smoked the original Three Nuns for years and Three Friars is no Three Nuns. At first I was very disapointed. Once I got over the fact that there will never be another Three Nuns and gave Three Friars a fair shake, I found it to be a very good VA Burley blend. This is recomended as a clean refreshing smoke. It is NOT anything like Three Nuns. If you like the taste of this tobacco but want a lttle more flavor (natural not cased), try G.L. Pease Cumberland as I find them quite similar. Three Friars could be considered a Cumberland light.

Three Friars.22/03/07. I like Three Friars,it's nothing like Bell's,Original,Three Nun's.And definitely nothing like my other true love blend,Escudo Navy De Luxe. But,let's be very fair here with Three Friars.It light's up very easy,taste's good and smoke's extremely well.It doesn't bite and show's no sign of bitterness and leaves a reasonably dry grey ash."YES" I enjoyed it,even if it is different. In it's own right. "Highly recommended"

Naturally sweet and nutty with just a hint of spice best describes Three Friars. An aesthetically pleasing mixture consisting of light golden, cocoa brown and black leaf. The Light Virginia is naturally sweet and creamy to my palate. The brown Virginia Burley has a subtle nuttiness providing body and the Perique compliments both adding a perfect richness of aroma and flavor. The cut affords easy loading and cool burning down to a dry clean ash. Nice nicotine content as well, but never overwhelming. A very consistent mixture that requires very little attention to satisfy. This is a great candidate for an all day smoke that never bores the palate.

This is another fine "English Type" blend from C&D. The combination of the VA, Burley & Perique provides very pleasant,but not overpowering flavor. The VA is naturally sweet, the burley is nut like, and the perique provides enought spice to compliment the sweetness of the VA.

The ribbon cut provides easy loading and cool burning. Burns very cool and down to a fine ash. No tongue bit at all. The price is very economical, especially from Smoking Pipes.

Hight Recommended

I agree with Pipestud on this one. I'll add that I find it similar to Briar Fox in the Virginia department. (Big Surprise) And, at half the price, 3 Friar's perique isn't the only thing that tickles.

I have been told that this is supposed to be similar to the original Three Nuns. Well, if so I now know why everyone loved the original. This is wonderful stuff! As usual, C&D only uses the best quality leaf, so I was immediately impressed with this when I recieved a generous sample along with a recent order I placed with C&D. I have been smoking this out of a vintage Churchwarden, and I cannot say enough good things about this blend. In my opinion, it is rich and mild all at the same time. A wonderful flavor, no tonguebite, burns very cool all the way down the bowl. Not too strong in the Nicotine Department IMHO, either.Very pleasant room note...My partner says it smells like burning leaves in the room. Anyone wanting a smooth, relaxing smoke, this tobacco is the one. I will be ordering an 8 ounce tin with my next order. HIGHLY recommended!!! It is a shame I cannot give this a 5 star rating!

This is a lovely tobacco. The Virginias are naturally sweet, creamy, thick, and lucious. The Perrique is not overpowering, and in fact adds just enough of a spice to the sweetness to make it a complex and medium-bodied flavor. In the jar, there is a distinct Raisin Bran smell, which you cannot taste when smoking. The taste when smoking is sweet, honey, nicotine, with just the slightest hint of a flavor that I cannot describe, but that I compare to the flavor of Early Morning Pipe. The overall impression is luxury, smoothness, calm, sweetness, and relaxation. I would recommend this tobacco after dinner, before bed (I am about to go smoke a bowl of it then go to bed!), or anytime that you want to relax. But don't get me wrong: it is medium-bodied and not overly mild! There is enough body and flavor to enjoy and to seek out the various components of the complexity, but not an extremely powerful, English- or Perrique- like boldness that is good for other purposes. Overall, I think every pipe smoker should try this. It has just enough natural sweetness to appeal to aromatic smokers, yet enough body, complexity, seriousness, and quality to please burley smokers like me. Try it! You will not be disappointed! And Cornell & Diehl's prices are very, very good. It was less than ten dollars for an 8oz jar, which is alot of tobacco!

I have heard it said more than once that Three Friars is a replacement for Three Nuns. I don't see how anyone can think this. While both blends contain Va and Perique, that's where the similarity ends. Friars has Burley, and is therefore a completely different blend. Three Friars is a good enough blend to stand on its own, it doesn't need some contrived connection to a legendary blend to make it work.

The mixture is very well balanced, the Va's delicate sweetness is nicely offset by the Burley, while being supported by the Perique.

If you like Perique, but don't like it when the Louisiana leasf steals the show, this could be for you.

Another fine effort from C&D.