The label on this tin is vexing, what, exactly, is the name of this blend? first light was typical. This is probably not an all day smoke for many but can certainly be enjoyed on a daily basis, being much closer to the strong side in the medium to strong classification, especially toward the last third. Not sure what it is but a strong cigar essence takes over and the wonderful Virginias fall far to the background. If I did that I'd be ashamed. Sold Out. The retrohale is full, round, and smooth, but spicy, and present. I think the blend that broke me on red was Blockade Runner, a tasty rum soaked navy cake that still has a raw, pure tobacco taste behind the rum. Pipe Used: 6mm Savinellis and a Chacom Billiard. It is now sweet and tangy, good on cold relights, no bitterness BUT,,,still not up to McC's Christmas Cheers. This one will age terrifically given the time to do so. The sweetness is delicious and brown sugar-like in character while the smoke is almost creamy tasting. This is a gentle Virginia, full of all kinds of subtle flavors (quite the contrast to my stronger flavor musings) that is now a benchmark tobacco for me. I didn't know if another Red Virginia blend of the quality of 40th would hit the market after McClelland closed their doors, but Carolina Red Flake finally makes me not miss them as much. Similar Blends: Orliks Golden Red, GLP Union Square. Makes for a really enjoyable smoke. However, in my opinion, even fresh, this tobacco is more interesting than Opening Night. For such a straight forward flake, a bowl of Carolina Red Flake can mostly hold my interest throughout the smoke. Text Websales Anytime (707) 285-9196. Performance: Burns exceptionally well. Cornell and Diehl | Carolina Red Flake| A Review | - YouTube Just might be my favorite.it's a little longer than usual but this flake is a delicious tin and I hope you find this review. Get the Facts: Customers who bought this item also bought G.L. Include "small batch" in the title. It's well rounded with the highs, mids and lows nicely covered. of STC Holdings LLC. A very decent pepper tingle on retro-hale. This gets sweeter tasting as it gets further through a bowl. I usually gravitate toward the much heavier-tasting blends of the G&H variety. I would recommen Carolina Red Flake. Probably not an all day smoke for many but can certainly be enjoyed on a daily basis. However, for right now, this year's batch is one of the best things to come out of 2020. Did the one hour drive to my favorite BBQ place, let the pipe go out and had some excellent hickory smoked wings before my return trip. C&D has a blend for everyone but not everyone do I care for. WARNING: Smokingpipes.com does not sell tobacco or tobacco related products to anyone under the age of 21, nor do we sell cigarettes. This is something that I look forward to every year. Their social lives are endlessly fascinating: they store thousands of acorns each year by jamming them into specially made holes in trees. Pipe Used: Ropp Etudiant Sandblasted (J05), C & D, Carolina Red Flake: The best red Virginia flake currently on the market. Excellent blend that will undoubtedly improve with age. Really a wonderful blend but dont let the nicotine slap you too hard! I'm not sure I like this very much. Then as the last Grey ash was spent. The Small Batch project is something new to the pipe tobacco world. Definitely a flake for your small pipes, I am damn glad I bought several tins of this before it disappeared forever. This tin was a little moist, but not so much it needed airing. A soft aroma of fruit and tobacco would best describe it. After that some Virginia sweetness here and there shines through and some earthy tones are more noticable. 2oz Tin. $16.04. I've smoked the 2020 crop and I'm almost done my first tin. A solid slightly sour earth note is detected if smoked gently. Earthier, spicer and a bit more body to it. The 2022 edition of Carolina Red Flake features matured TA-20 Red-Orange Tips (the same grade as in 2021's Carolina Red Flake with Perique), boasting a substantial natural sugar content of 13.53%, and all sourced from a single family farm in North Carolina. I have a few CRF 2020 put away and it has become my first pipe of the day with some Community Coffee. Great blend & I've bought plenty to cellar should age fairly quickly & the longer, the better. Pipe Used: MM Marcus, Little Devil Cutty, Little Devil Acorn. Comes in a chunky flake format reminiscent of the flakes in G.L. Smelling it brings hay and dark fruit to mind. Just as good, but different, than last year's batch. Tin aroma is that of hay, earth & grass with no preservative aroma. I would have thought I could pick from the myriad blends I've tried some that are better than others, but it wasn't until I smoked this, that I could almost immediately say I had finally realized something that would be a legend of my pipe smoking tobacco experience. An inspired blend of the finest North Carolina grown Red Virginias, Carolina Red Flake is Cornell & Diehl's tribute to the historic Old Belt growing region. By that it is up there with a very good Christmas Cheer and it has the edge on 5100. Anyway, that's my review. Just a very faint typical red virginia aroma. If you enjoy red Virginia's and can find some at a decent price, this is a must try plus it will age wonderfully!! I bought 2 tins, 1 for now and one for 5 years later or so. Plan on picking up many more tins. Beyond being a "limited edition" and the suggestions that this may entail, it is a very rich tobacco. The strength of the tobacco is below average - I smoked two pipes in a row without feeling the nicotine hit. Well, I suppose I'm no old timer with smoking, but in the 5 years or so I've smoked, I've plowed through and amassed quite a collection. It looks like this is out again (April 2020) as I was able to get a tin that is labeled from September 2019 at my local tobacconist. CRF 2022 arrived and I put 2 away and opened one tin to smoke now. I'm sorry I got a single tin to test it out, but I hope to get more when there is another release. I say fairly smooth only because the much appreciated earth and spice continually underscores the inherently tangy sweetness of the reds. The tangy after taste very pleasantly lingers a little, and the room note is a little sweet. Along with that, you find grassy, bready, and earthy notes. It is much stronger & tastier than the wimpy, McCrannie's Red Ribbon which didn't impress me in the least but it did possess a good flavor but this one is richer & tangier with a more earthy flavor. I have always been a fan of C&D blends and so after acquiring some of my old favorites (Big N' Burley, Byzantium, Valle Crucis, Pasha's Dream) I came across a youtube video with Jeremy Reeves on this tobacco. It presented in my tin as reddish brown, broken flakes, and the tin note is fermenting bread, yeasty, tangy, earthy, dark fruit leather, a little oat-y, and pungent for a VA. The hay is indeed present but whats most notable is the sweetness of the Virginias and the tang of citrus (somewhere between orange and lemon) and I did confirm itcranberries. Bring it back, C&D, as a permanent offering, and you have at least one lifetime customer. If you see this tin on a shelf in your local tobacconist PICK IT UP! Right place at the right time, I guess. Additional information. The flavor is richer and deeper than many newly tinned red Virginias out there. A beacon herald, flagship tobacco. Different than almost any flake I've smoked. This is good stuff. It is a fine blend. That is high praise. It is so smooth with really no harshness or roughness and no bite whatsoever. To be clear the tin not is so rich, I'm not sure I can understand why it does not translate into the smoke. Pipe Used: T. Bannard(BST) rusticated canadian. Very nice red VA flake. I've been smoking this edition Carolina Red Flake for a couple of days now in a variety of pipes ranging from a nosewarmer Reverse Calabash to a smallish 3/4s Bent Billiard to a quarter-bent pot. It needs nothing but a good pipe, a match and an hour or two of relaxed smoking. Nice Virginia broken flake and C&D did not lie when they said it came from a special grade of Virginia. My next visit to the pipe club I am going to bring in the other dented tin and pass it around. This is a good description of the smoke, for me. I definitely like it and I am not a expert reviewer, but I After McClelland closed down I was worried that we wouldn't be able to purchase quality Virginia tobaccos. Room note is pleasant. It has more flavor and is sweeter even though the percentage sugar on the tin is about the same as it was last year. after settling in burns quite well. The aroma of the tobacco is wheat bread on freshly dried hay, tinged with the smell of sweet strong white wine and figs. It does light easily and stays lit with no need to relight throughout the smoke. This one will be savored. Because of this blend, I'll have to seek out more Red VA's. Can be smoked folded or rubbed out & has a long burn rate. Wow, I ordered a few tins of this and I'm over the moon I did! Notes: First retail launch: June 10, 2016. This is a tobacco tin worth waiting for and worth it's money X10. $14.99 Save 25%. A fantastic sweet Virginia smell, reddish brown and a very broken flake tobacco. I'm sure one day I'll get to try it, but really what a bunch of panic buyer's. They have little pieces of yellow scattered across them, but the prominent colour's a darker brown. The tobacco smells deceptively sweet. The tin note is grass and fruit. I have two in my special place for a year or two later. The tin date is 9/15/20 so its almost exactly two years old. But there's also a bready, doughy, character behind; like a fruit bun! Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires a couple more than an average number of relights. Life is too short to get to worked up over a couple of dented tins. I couldnt ignore the fine tobacco flavor or coolness of the smoke. There are several fruity nuances that run together making a kind of "fruit punch" flavor that's only mildly sweet and somewhat tart. Robust and nice spice. If you are lucky enough to buy in bulk, it would be luxurious every day smoke. Red Virginia is just about the only pure strain that can be absolutely perfect on its own. The tin was slightly swollen but that proved to be of no concern. Decent looking broken flake with tin notes of hay, earth. it does have that grass smell in the background but definitely cranberry. The tanginess boarders on sour occasionally and this adds to the complexity of the smoke. Somewhat tangy but not as vinegary as Sutliff 515 RC-1. I decided before the new stuff showed up that id set it aside not knowing how it might change in a couple of years. The tobacco has quite a characteristic caramel-malt aftertaste - as if you tasted a glass of red ale with your tongue - and this is markedly different from Opening Night. Cornell & Diehl - Carolina Red Flake (Small Batch). The other is being smoked only in cobs because I'm a cob guy and this is special stuff. Here is as fine an example of an All American, aged VA flake as I have ever smoked, for whatever thats worth. It's a little less sweet than the Opening Night I tried earlier from the same producer, but the difference in flavor would be noticeable if you smoke them one after the other. As are things with all Limited Edition / Small Batch items, the supply is limited. While it is good, I dont see myself missing it when my tin is empty. . I just don't like them. I don't miss the lack of bright. TobaccoPipes.com Here I open, smell, and smoke some Cornell & Diehl Small Batch Carolina Red Flake. SKU: 10055761|16877 Categories: Cornell & Diehl, Pipe Tobacco. Yes i will say the description is accurate . My understanding is this the last batch of CRF with this grade of Virginia that we will see. blends, and i look for the sweetness and spice often associated with those types of blends, this didn't have it, the flavor reminded me somewhat of a toasted cigar, not bad at all but just not my preference. I've even accumulated blending stock and have acquired the ability to get reasonably close to the one's I love. This year's edition of Carolina Red Flake features matured TA-20 Red-Orange Tips (the same grade as in last year's Carolina Red Flake with Perique), boasting a substantial natural sugar content of 13.53%, and all sourced from a single family farm in North Carolina. OS PEDIDOS SERO ENVIADOS EM AT 3 DIAS TEIS APS A CONFIMAO DO PAGAMENTO. Strangely, but wonderfully, it's a "fill it and forget it" type of blend from a maintenence perspective which is rare for a straight Virginia blend. The appearance is fluffy strips of flake, easily diverging into individual fibers. I'm glad I did. Some citrus is detectable but not grassy or haylike like brights. Another great Virginia Flake that, for some reason, I came to late in the game. In the end, this is a top-notch tobacco - definitely worthy of cellaring/hoarding. In fact English blending houses dont have a comparable blend so one could say that this might be one of thee best red Virginia flakes in the world right now. 'Fruit Bun'. . Delightful, easy-smoking, good flavor and room notes. All rights reserved. While not a huge Virginia fan I had to get a few of these and the one I have gotten into so far makes me glad I did. The strength is a step short of the medium mark. p.s. Had no mold but my buddy wanted to return his 10 tins. The flavor is rich and lingers on the palate. Luckily, between Pease and C&D, I have lots of fall backs that I can smoke the rest of the time. So I guess it's a tradeoff. Ah ha, I thought, I am PST and I can get a 3 hour jump on half the United States. The nic-hit is a slot below the overall strength level. End of Speech. I did manage to stock enough to last a good while, but of all the tobacco's I've tasted, this one is so perfect, and above the rest, that I can truly say it is a masterpiece, at least in the modern sense. I'm from the Burley camp and love Burley, Balkan's and Oriental blends. I've got English's I adore, Balkan's I love, VA/Per's I can't get enough of. Bill in NYC. It's exactly what I look for in VA flake and then some. One of THE best flake tobacco you can ever smoke and worthy of storing long term in your humidor for those special occasions. Its special. Jeremy Reeves at Cornell&Diehl proved that he has the chops to be one of the best blenders in the USA. Cornell & Diehl has its Small Batch engines firing once again on another limited run. The initial taste is quite relaxed, baked bread with a slight note of bitter chocolate. Not an immediate love affair Yeah. Ordered three tins and they came today. Further good news, no mold! Flavors are more focused on the peppery part. I have found no mold in the tin I'm smoking out of and I intend to smoke every bit of it. As good or better than any tobacco I've had the pleasure of smoking. I normally love Virginias but this one didn't do it for me. This year's edition showcases matured TA-20 Red-Orange Tips (the same grade featured in 2021's Carolina Red Flake with Perique), boasting a substantial natural sugar content of 13.53%, and all sourced from a single family farm in North Carolina. Further into the bowl there are lots of dried fruit and earthy/vegetal notes. You should try it if you can get one of the 2400 tins. I have the impression that pipe smokers can be described by various terms, divided into distinct classes along several lines of distinction. Easily burns to ash, and requires a few relights. Good all day smoke if desired. Posted by Verified Customer on 31st Oct 2020 . 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