Cornell & Diehl: Blockade Runner 8oz Pipe Tobacco
Product Number: 003-016-0229
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.

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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
This ship is sinking🚣🏻
May 17, 2025
By:
Brett E.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
The only thing I taste is the Virginia leaf. And it’s not a very high quality Virginia either. It seems to have a decent flavor at first but gets pretty rank and ashy by mid bowl. I got this originally because it sounded unique with the rum added but I honestly don’t think it translates to my taste buds. I’d rather smoke a high quality Virginia or an aromatic. Not sure what to do with this but dump it. I won’t be buying anything from C&D anymore. Everything I’ve bought from them has been a let down....Read More
Tasty but temperamental
May 14, 2025
By:
Kodi P.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
e. Go slow and keep a steady cadence and you will be greatly rewarded. I can tell the virginias will only improve with age....Read More
Incredible smoke
March 25, 2025
By:
Todd C.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
well. Notes of vanilla and caramel. I am not sure where the caramel comes from, the rum or the stoving of the tobacco but it is there and it is great. This is my first crumble cake and I like it. The pressing of the cake definitely mixes the flavors really well....Read More
Amazing !
December 31, 2024
By:
Joe
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
y through the tin, the smell is more like wild honey, and the taste is excellent, really sweet, a bit spicy, but all round great, to me, it's so good you want to puff like a freight train, but sipping it is good to....Read More
Great voyage in flavor!
April 19, 2024
By:
Eric B.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 8oz
Tin note is very nice with hint of rum. Crumbles easy needs a little drying time maybe 1/2 hr. Easy with the packing and sip. You’ll fined the Virginias sweet with a hint of rum. Room note is not over powering and nic hit is medium. Very enjoyable for an all day smoke.
Green virginia soaked in rum
November 13, 2023
By:
John V.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
The tin I received tasted very fresh indeed and was positively soaked in rum. Wet tobacco that needs at least half an hour to smoke and at least 2 years on the shelf before I put it back in my pipe. I hope age tames this tongue searing sea beast. 2 and a half stars.
Just okay
June 30, 2022
By:
Joseph D.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
eads to biting, and the others I mentioned are "better behaved" in my pipes. Nice, but not a repeater for me....Read More
AVAST YE RUM RUNNERS!!!
June 27, 2022
By:
PIRATE PIPER
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
olutely delicious smoke, smooth, cool, mellow, and the sweet flavors of the Virginia’s and rum are ridiculous! Sooo good! I might like Black Frigate just a tiny bit more because of the Smokey Latakia, but both of these are some of my favorites! Grab a tankard of grog and a bowl of Blockade Runner and set sail! Cheers!...Read More
Wonderful
July 10, 2022
By:
Todd K.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Blockade Runner 2oz
ood. Perfect. Wow. Thank You C&D!...Read More
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