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Blockade Runner 8oz
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- Components: Virginia
- Family: Virginia
- Cut: Cake
About This Pipe Tobacco
C&D's true Navy Cavendish crumble cake is made with hand-stoved red Virginia and golden Virginia, soaked in a premium rum for seven days, then lightly stoved again, pressed and cut. The seven days are the time it took our seagoing forefathers to sail back to New England from the Islands with the tobacco in their casks soaked with rum. The ship on the label is the Advance, the South's most successful blockade runner.
Customer Reviews
Not supposed to be a rum aromatic.
June 11, 2025
By:
Virginia_guy
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
m from the receipe then the blend will taste different.
When tobacco was being shipped from the colonies to other parts of the world, it had a high tendency of going bad. So what they did was soak the tobacco in rum or in a sugar to preserve it from spoilage or from just turning into dust. But during transportation, the rum or sugars would transform the tobacco into something way more enjoyable. This was essentially the precursor to casings.
I completely understand if people get put off by the lack of rum flavor in Blockade Runner. But to me the point of BR is not to have an aromatically weak blend, but to showcase and pay homage to how it was traditionally done in the past.
Blockade Runner is what I look for in a traditional style navy blend. While the tin note is boozy, the booze note doesn't translate to the flavor. Instead you get a light sugary sweetness, molasses, and a very very light fruity note from the fermentation. I don't notice the flavors that stoving imparts on Virginia's. Maybe just a touch of breadiness, but the base Virginia's have your typical flavor profile with an almost black tea profile. Not much spice or any kind of complexity, but I get no harshness either. I imagine if no rum was added to this blend and it was not pressed, it would taste similar to Yorktown as they both seem to have similar stoving proccesses and the same tobacco base.
I like it. I think it's enjoyable straight from the tin. I had the opportunity to purchase a 25 year old tin just to see what it was like back then but i waited too long. A similar blend (kind of) is Afterhours Flake but it's alot sweeter. This a nice all day blend that I recommend....Read More
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Another perfect summer smoke
August 04, 2026
By:
Mario C.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
the cake broke up easily and you could immediately smell the rum in the tin. burned perfectly and was easily packed. Light citrus and bright notes. Very enjoyable during the day and night.
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Pretty Damn Good
August 22, 2026
By:
Chuck45
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 8oz
Can’t gripe one damn bit about this blend. It’s a nice change up , boozy , smokes wonderful, needs just a few light ups but booyaw! Great smoke and clouds of it! Cellaring some of the plugs for next year!
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A hidden Gem
August 20, 2026
By:
Timothy S.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
This stuff! Its like a really good navy flake but not flake lol, leaves a rum after taste in a brand new or cleaned pipe, burns cool, very flavorful whats not to love, will be picking up an 8 oz cam next time.
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I wish they made this in bulk
August 07, 2026
By:
STIHL-piper
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
Just try a tin. Simple as that, then you'll know why I wish they made it in bulk.
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