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Blockade Runner 2oz
Details
- 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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A piece of history in a tin
May 11, 2026
By:
Dawson D.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
once in awhile you get that boozy rum from the tin note. Wasn't crazy about it at first. Figured I had better stuff out there to enjoy, until something happened. One week I took my entire stock with me jarred up when I went away and I ONLY had this stuff every night I wanted to have a pipe. It grew on me the more I had it. That made me think about something in retrospect. Sailors and workers back then didn't get to have "50 different jars" and a "cellar of 10 year aged tobaccos" they only had on them what they took, and I'm sure it made enjoying that little bit of comfort all the more enjoyable when that WAS the tobacco blend that you had. This blend is C&D's oldest recipe blend (from the 1800s I believe) and this is quite literally what sailors would've been smoking in the 1800s. Nothing fancy, nothing crazy, but yet it still holds up to some more modern stuff. That in it of itself is what makes this blend so special to me. The story of it, the history of it, and the people that enjoyed it....Read More
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mediocrity in a can
May 16, 2026
By:
Thomas Dean B.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
ture leaked out when squeezed. After 2 weeks being opened with lid on, it was the same way. and until I broke the tobacco apart and let it dry with lid off for 10 hours
Every smoke was nothing but sucking on hot air with the flavor of rubbing alcohol.
After the 10 hour dry down, flavor of ash with serious tongue burn....Read More
Every smoke was nothing but sucking on hot air with the flavor of rubbing alcohol.
After the 10 hour dry down, flavor of ash with serious tongue burn....Read More
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4 stars after 4 years
May 13, 2026
By:
Jordan C.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
ter 4 years I feel like it’s finally blossomed into something great. I’d compare this to an aged/ stoved luxury bullseye flake flavor profile after some time but in ribbon-cake form, which also takes some years to develop. If you have the patience it is definitely worth a corner of your cellar. I was about to write it off until this year and now I’d consider buying more. Funny how tobacco works through time....Read More
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Deliciously uncomplicated
January 13, 2026
By:
Brandon D.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
ter the first third of the bowl. After that first light I found the classic warm hay and some of the sweet fruity notes. The booziness was not detectable while smoking. The flavor is very simple and delicious.I prefer to smoke this out of my Peterson 106 straight billard. My wife does not like the room note but I find it to be very pleasant.
I would not recommend this for your first Virginia to smoke. I would, however, recommend buying it first and cellaring it for a couple of months. After 3 months of cellaring the initial harshness is less prevalent.
Overall I am really enjoying this blend. Give it time and I think you will too....Read More
I would not recommend this for your first Virginia to smoke. I would, however, recommend buying it first and cellaring it for a couple of months. After 3 months of cellaring the initial harshness is less prevalent.
Overall I am really enjoying this blend. Give it time and I think you will too....Read More
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