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Red Virginia Ribbon 2oz
Details
- 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
An underrated pipe tobacco.
August 30, 2026
By:
Jackal Zhang
Product: Cornell & Diehl Red Virginia Ribbon Bulk
ient aging time or an excessively high sugar content, the smoke carries a slight harshness and a touch of roughness when burned. That said, I firmly believe that extended aging will bring about remarkable improvements, which is why I purchased 32 oz for cellaring. When I blend it with other tobaccos, this pipe tobacco also contributes greatly to enhancing the diversity of flavors.
P.S. This tobacco is best enjoyed in a pipe with a thick-walled bowl and smoked slowly. This approach better brings out its layered complexity while also preventing the pipe from becoming uncomfortably hot to hold due to excessive combustion temperature....Read More
P.S. This tobacco is best enjoyed in a pipe with a thick-walled bowl and smoked slowly. This approach better brings out its layered complexity while also preventing the pipe from becoming uncomfortably hot to hold due to excessive combustion temperature....Read More
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Complexity in Simplicity
August 29, 2026
By:
Ryan M.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Red Virginia Ribbon 2oz
et stone fruit, bread, earth and wood—cedar to me—along with some malty flavors, all within the same bowl. As the bowl progresses, the flavors get deeper, the malty flavors kick in more. But they never seem to meld into one single flavor. The other flavors are still there. Just maltier. They remain distinct enough that I can pick them out as I smoke. The base Red Virginia stone fruit is always there, but gets deeper also.
This has kept my attention, which is hard to do. I have smoked blends made with several different tobaccos that were not this complex. I think that is one of the reasons I like it so much. Plus, I am a Red Virginia fan anyway.
If you already like Red Virginias, or if you want to explore what they have to offer in a pure, unadulterated form, give this one a try. Seriously though, I am a patient slow smoker and I believe that is what it takes for this tobacco to show its treasure....Read More
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Strong and very satisfying
April 11, 2025
By:
Eric W.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Red Virginia Ribbon Bulk
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Red Virginia Ribbon
June 01, 2025
By:
The HP
Product: Cornell & Diehl Red Virginia Ribbon Bulk
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....Read More
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....Read More
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Stands well on its own
November 22, 2024
By:
John H.
Product: Cornell & Diehl Red Virginia Ribbon Bulk
Bought this to blend with, but I'm liking it more and more all by itself!
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