A good mulberry rush on a fresh light, with that raisin, oak and almost roasted pumpking back notes after the first light. I dont have any C&D blends in my regular rotation. Incio / Tabacos para Cachimbo / Mistura Balcnica Butera - Latakia No.1 - 2016 - Tabaco para Cachimbo - Envelhecido Smoke this stuff: It's good. Subtle, sweet and smooth. Quire dark for Virginia flakes. update 10/2020 Ive been smoking the just released 2020 CRF and wanted to give my impressions. Into the second half of the bowl, the pepper and earth mellow out a bit and I can detect hints of orange peel. I like to handle the chunky, broken flake ribbons carefully and get a bundle of them stood up on end in the bowl of a dedicated VA pipe. Anyone got a spare tin? Tried one bowl and promptly ordered three more. On its own merits it is great. I hope C&D unloads the small batch label and releases it as a standard blend. It is not the same as CC but these are top shelf red's. Last year's batch was great, that's why I bought 15 tins of it this time; this year's batch, in my opinion, is just as good, but in a different way. My next visit to the pipe club I am going to bring in the other dented tin and pass it around. Further good news, no mold! Now if I could apply that attitude to the rest of my life well until next time. I will start off this review by stating that this is an excellent Virginia offering from Cornell and Diehl. Every bowl has been better than the previous. I was hoping it would stay on the lighter, brighter side of the Virginia spectrum, but that's okay. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires a couple more than an average number of relights. 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. 2020 edition: Spicy is what I recognize first and strong for the first third of the bowl. Can be an all day smoke. I am a Virginia fan and most of my favorite smokes are from Virginia laden pipes with an occasional foray into light English blends. Age When Smoked: Less than two weeks from being tinned, Purchased From: Smoking pipes and uptowns in Nashville. To ke ep shipping costs down, I also grabbed a new Peterson Aran X105 with nickel band. The smoke is earthy, in fact, it is one of the earthiest straight Virginia I have ever tried. The room note is a notch stronger. This is not your candy store or typical aromatic tobacco. Reminiscent of a troupe of wide-eyed clowns, Acorn Woodpeckers live in large groups in western oak woodlands. truly wish everyone could try this one. Surtliffs cringle flake is another good one that is similar but with added flavoring . I also said I probably should have emailed UPS also but I just wanted to let them know. I bought a lot of this to age. Like a lot of reds, it has a similar taste profile to an Amber Ale style beer, which is also one of my go to beers, which probably explains why I like it. It is not an overly complex smoke but it is not without nuance. Excellent work C&D! The initial taste is quite relaxed, baked bread with a slight note of bitter chocolate. From a moisture standpoint, most will find this pipe ready straight away. I appreciate the lack of anything noticeably present beyond the tobacco flavors themselves, and combined with the high sugar content this year I seems as though CRF should age exceptionally well. copyright intellectual property of the reviewer and STC Holdings LLC and may not be I typically don't care for the light, pure virginias like Capstan, Navy Flake, etc., there just doesn't seem to be a lot going on behind the hay and grass taste. Smoky and burns well for me with few to zero re-lights. Easily burns to ash, and requires a few relights. The tobacco's in this blend are mildly sweet, verge on being full flavored (but not strong), and very tasty indeed! I smoked this in various pipes from meers to cobs to favorite briars at different times of the day. at first, I was thinking raisin bran cereal. While quite good, I prefer a more complex straight Virginia for my normal rotation. One reviewer used the word "boring" -- and that is what immediately came to my mind, initially, but it soon began to develop some character. I think previous issues at least in the beginning it was an actual flake but cant swear to it. Cornell & Diehl - Carolina Red Flake with Perique (2021). My clear expectation is that it will age like a champ. I listened to Jeremy Reeves video on Smoking Pipes about the grade of Red Virginia which is featured in this one. Sold Out. No need to dry. I've become quite fond of Virginia's since first picking up the briar -- red Virginias in particular. With only 10,000 two ounce tins, this batch has already SOLD OUT at the wholesale level. TL:DR - Great medium, sweet smoke with a little spice and dark fruit flavors. Lower sugar content and higher nicotine are obvious. Packed a rather large bowl of this (in an over-sized Neerup) for breakfast this morning. It's not a bad tobacco, but I don't think it's as good as people make it out to be. I wonder how much Carolina Red Flake tins would have sold if they'd given out free samples first. C&D flakes are my favorite in terms of consistency and breaking apart. Robust and nice spice. This is a great Red Virginia. I cant wait for the other tins to get several years on them to come back to once I get more of a taste for Virginias. Decent looking broken flake with tin notes of hay, earth. Excellent. Smokes great and tastes great, what more can you ask for (aside from more availability LOL). I say fairly smooth only because the much appreciated earth and spice continually underscores the inherently tangy sweetness of the reds. This is one of the best Virginia tobacco's I have ever smoked from C&D and deserves high honors among all the great Virginia's. However, when PS.C advertised this tobacco, I bought a couple of tinsjust based on the description. Similar Blends: A little like C & Ds Red Ribbon, McCranies in flavor but with considerably more strength.. Was eager to try this with all the hype. I was surprised by its strength pretty darn strong. Its very tangy, dark fruit sweet with a lot of earth and wood, very mild grass, bread, vinegar, floralness, natural sugar, tart lemon and citrus notes, along with slightly more than mild spice. No, but it holds a certain place in the pipe community. There is a tanginess to the smoke that is always in the background and pronounced on the retrohale. However, in my opinion, even fresh, this tobacco is more interesting than Opening Night. Cornell & Diehl - Carolina Red Flake 2022 (Small Batch). I love Peterson Billiards and have examples of all the common sizes, including another X105. When you light it up, it starts out fairly sweet and is bready while having hints of hay. I've got several example's from all the most readily available blenders/brands of varying percentages of leaf. I felt the nicotine coming in at around half-bowl and I wasn't enjoying this bowl, so I just dumped it. Similar Blends: McClelland - 40th Anniversary (Limited Edition). Plenty of flavor and rich smoke, just not my cup of tea, I got a bitter taste. I would recommen Carolina Red Flake. Probably the only complaint I would have if I had one is that the enhanced sweetness reduces it's "bite" and I like the bite a lot, that's why I mostly smoke untopped straight VA's and burleys (with the exception of LC Santee). So, when I saw "Carolina Red Flake", Sutliff Matured Red Virginia 515 RC-1 came to mind, as did Sutliff's Crumble Kake Red Virginia (alas, I missed the 5100 -- I can only imagine) . My brain went to a dark cherry flavor. This is one of the smoothest, unadulte rated tobacco tins you can ever purchase. It is definitely an all day smoke type of blend. 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. of STC Holdings LLC. Come to find the name of this blend is Carolina Red Flake, not Small Batch. Towards the end of the bowl it usually tastes very bready. Just received two tins of Carolina Red Flake (dated 9-23-2019). Quire dark for Virginia flakes. One hintLight the "load" smoke for a bit..maybe 3-4 minutes and then set the pipe down. When you open the tin, you can see an aroma of bread and hay with a vinegary touch (I have not detected the Korean red pepper (Gochugaru) that some user talks about, but I take my hat off to him (!?). It has the prevailing, expected VaPer aroma, grassy and figgy. Definitely a flake for your small pipes, I am damn glad I bought several tins of this before it disappeared forever. Good dose of nicotine, just past the medium I would say. How do you get a tobacco to become a loved, best selling, cult followed tobacco? some of the small batch/limited editions are a lot of hype. Truthfully the numbers are mean less unless you get maybe 00001 or 10000. Significantly better, THIS is the year. My only regret is that I should've bought MORE! Just a very faint typical red virginia aroma. after settling in burns quite well. 4 stars. There is plenty of smoke, and it gets better and better, right down to nubs. I was able to buy some of this tobacco when it went up for sale and should have bought more. It truly is some wonderful leaf. Sold Out. Flavors that came up included whispered memories of one of my old time faves: J.F. As good or better than any tobacco I've had the pleasure of smoking. Sad sad sad. Smoked in a favorite average size Canadian. Its got the earthy body and cranberry tartness. Not surprising as it's a limited edition offering. Enjoy! It is rich, medium body, and a little sweet with a slight tanginess (but not in a citrus way). This bowl started out with the sweet vinegar, earthy, grassy, brightness that Virginias are known for, and then. that's it. You should try it if you can get one of the 2400 tins. Gentlemen zombie nailed it with the fruit punch flavor ! I noticed no bite. whaaa!? A blend of the finest North Carolina grown Red Virginias, Carolina Red Flake is Cornell & Diehl's tribute to the Old Belt. This is an instant classic and a blend to be revered for generations to come. It definitely needs to be smoked slowly, and tends towards a bitter aftertaste towards the bottom of the b (2022 version) This is a tangy, medium-bodied blend of red Virginias that lives up to the billing. I was wrong. Not surprising as it's a limited edition offering. Into the cellar you go mr. 2020. It's exactly what I look for in VA flake and then some. 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. 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