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Byzantium 2oz Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-016-0066

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Details

Strength:
3/5
Room Note:
3/5
Taste:
4/5
  • Components: Latakia, Perique, Orientals
  • Family: English
  • Cut: Ribbon

About This Pipe Tobacco

An intriguing interpretation of the classic Balkan. Redolent of Latakia, Orientals, and bracing Perique, Byzantium is an alluring companion for flights of the imagination to exotic lands.

Customer Reviews

Overall Rating:
4.2
72 reviews
Byzantium
June 01, 2025
Product: Cornell & Diehl Byzantium Bulk
The C&D Bulk Library Project

Byzantium
Smoking pipes rated 4.4

This English Balkan is a magical concoction of Latakia, Perique and Orientals. Presents in the bag with colors of khaki, brown, chocolatey brown, and black. Aromas from the bag are a mixture of deep smoke, oak, ketchup.


Sampled in a Missouri Pride.

This is a damn good Balkan. Immediately upon lighting it up you get a nice kick in the nuts from the Latakia telling you “hey I’m here and I run the show”.

Then the spicy Oriental and Perique go on to just beautifully pack the bowl with flavor giving you a very lush and luxurious Balkan experience.

I knew from the jump that this was going to be a five star blend and likely to see a lot of future action for me.

I actually enjoyed several bowls of this blend and can tell you that it paired nicely with a couple of red wines like The Prisoner and Meomi Pinot Noir.

It’s sweet and deep and has those nice nasal warming aromas that remind me of how wasabi kind of clears your sinuses in a flash of heat and then turn sweet on your taste buds. This blend literally made me salivate as I was smoking it.

Although I’m not saying there are anything of the same composition, this blend will easily replace White Horse as one of my go to Balkans as my supply of that blend runs out over time due to it’s no longer being produced.

If you’re a Balkan fan and you haven’t tried it I would recommend you give it a shot.

My rating 5

This is the 82nd of 101 C&D bulk blends I am reviewing for this project.
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Pretty good, to enjoyable, stuff...
January 24, 2026
Product: Cornell & Diehl Byzantium Bulk
I just took two blends out of storage after giving them nearly two years in there. The tin notes of the two, Byzantium and Bailey's Front Porch, is very similar to me. So I tried Bailey's Front Porch just before a bowl of this. Strange though, for there being no VA or Burley in this, and no Orientals in the Bailey's F.P.. Anyhow, this Byzantium is much more tasty then Bailey's F.P., and is one I would likely order more of. The other, Bailey's FP...not likely to reorder....Read More
Missing something
January 06, 2026
Product: Cornell & Diehl Byzantium 2oz
If you’ve ever been in the kitchen making your favorite chili and no matter what you do to it, it just seems to be missing something, then you understand what this blend tastes like to me. I certainly don’t hate it, and it’s nice and strong, but I don’t get any sweetness at all, probably because of the absence of Virginia. I thought the oriental would fill in, but even the lovely sour tang they usually provide seems muted. I wish c&d would diversify their tobacco sourcing as well, just to provide more differentiation between blends. I picked up some engine 99 as well. Maybe that will be a little more up my alley...Read More
Was expecting more strength
December 26, 2025
Product: Cornell & Diehl Byzantium Bulk
I ordered this thinking I would be getting a lat heavy blend with a strong flavor, and while this tobacco is certainly a good tobacco blend, I would say it's strength is actually medium. Not strong at all. Nor is it especially lat heavy, which is odd because on paper it should be. ; A very balanced and somewhat medium blend like Maltese Falcon has more flavor and a stronger Latakia flavor, even though it has lower amounts of said latakia. While this blend is fine, I feel like it's just not as high quality as other lat blends out there for a similar price. I attribute it's lack of flavor to the quality of the Latakia itself as opposed to the amounts. Maybe I got a bad batch. Additional note: It can be a bit soapy and bitter. Not entirely sure why....Read More
Editor's Pick
So smooth
February 16, 2025
Product: Cornell & Diehl Byzantium Bulk
As a latakia lover i really enjoy this blend , its very smooth and the flavor is very well balanced , the orientals and the Perique along of course with the latakia make this flavor relaxing easy on the tongue and an all around great smoke , its a new favorite !!!

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