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Red Virginia Ribbon Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 005-459-0074

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Details

Strength:
3/5
Room Note:
3/5
Taste:
3/5
  • Components: Virginia
  • Family: Blending
  • Cut: Ribbon

About This Pipe Tobacco

C&D's high-grade Old Belt red Virginia cut in the easy-burning ribbon style, this naturally sweet leaf not only packs a fine bowl straight from the bag, but also boasts excellent aging potential.

Customer Reviews

Overall Rating:
4.0
40 reviews
Red Virginia Ribbon
June 01, 2025
Product: Cornell & Diehl Red Virginia Ribbon Bulk
The C&D Bulk Library Project

Red Virginia Ribbon
Smoking Pipes rated 4.4

This blending Virginia is quite beautiful in the bag and consists of very consistently cut reddish yellowish brown ribbons. Aromas include the expected sour tangy notes as well as something that makes me think
of oats and raisins.

This is a beautiful Virginia and really the biggest problem is it does not live up to what I want it to be. By that I mean, historically we have been able to get some stellar Virginias like McClelland and McCranies and the selfish part of me hopes that one day I would be able to buy a red Virginia ribbon blending tobacco, and age it and open it up to that wonderful ketchupy vinegary Tears in the corner of your eyes funky tanginess of days gone by.

That’s not to degrade this tobacco. It is sweet and fragrant. I just wish the tang was stronger and is it worth the gamble to see if it comes with age? It’s very tempting to buy 5 pounds and put away in 10 half pound jars and sample it each year But my gut feeling is it just wouldn’t be there.

One thing with Virginia is they always smoke hot for me and that’s because of my cadence. I recognize I’m freight train and I have to mentally focused to slow my cadence down.

There’s an upper note that I can’t pin down. Mental image that pops up is that a grapefruit, but I wouldn’t say it’s a typically citrusy Blend.

Retrohale burns my nose a bit.

It’s nice, but to be honest of the blending components available I would rather smoke the Red Virginia Cavendish.

I think the interesting thing here is I do not think this tobacco needs another component paired with it to improve it. If anything, I think it needs another component to temper and tame it and make it pick a lane and be defined.

Obviously with their small batch release product Carolina Red Flake C&D knows what they’re doing when it comes to Red Virginia, but this ribbon alone by itself just leaves me a little wanting - and I’m not sure if it is a fair assessment or one based in nostalgia.

I gave her a good go. I smoked enough bowls of it back to back that I literally gave myself heartburn (something that tobacco hardly ever does to me with the exception of Red Man whole leaf chewing tobacco).

My rating : 4

This is the 85th of the 101 blends needed for this project.
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Strong and very satisfying
April 11, 2025
Product: Cornell & Diehl Red Virginia Ribbon Bulk
One of the best virginia tobaccos on the market. Strong, slow burning and rich. As compared to bright virginia it burns better with more body. The smoke is Strong but it will not bite like bright virginia. I went trough 8oz and just received a pound. Highly recommended for the seasoned pipe smoker....Read More
Stands well on its own
November 22, 2024
Product: Cornell & Diehl Red Virginia Ribbon Bulk
Bought this to blend with, but I'm liking it more and more all by itself!
help
July 26, 2025
Product: Cornell & Diehl Red Virginia Ribbon Bulk
taste so bad。i dont like it
Great alone or blended
July 25, 2025
Product: Cornell & Diehl Red Virginia Ribbon Bulk
The classic c&days red va, great in a custom blend or smoked on its own.

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