Cornell & Diehl: Riverboat Gambler 2oz Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-016-0184

A Runowski/Tarler blend. In the tradition of the mysterious Mississippi riverboat gamblin' men, a flavorful blend of the South's tobaccos, Burleys, Virginias, and Perique, with the exotic taste of Turkish leaf. The odds are with you when you smoke this blend.

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Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

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Components: Virginia, Perique, Burley, Orientals
Family: Burley
Cut: Ribbon

Customer Reviews

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4.1

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Gotta know when to hold em

August 14, 2024

Product: Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

This plan was flavorful, yet cleaning crisp. It smoked cool and smooth, despite being how dry it was out of the tin. This is easily a nice all day midsummer smoke.

Solid and strong American Blend

January 28, 2024

Product: Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

Though there's nothing really special, it matches expectations. It's good, strong, full flavored American Blend. Burns well and quite cool. The nicotine quite high. The taste is balanced, so you get practically everything those four tobaccos in the blend can give: earth, wood, nuts, sweetness and a bit sourness, leather and a bit hay, etc. Maybe it's more Burley-led though. Get it if you like strong American and Burley-led blends....Read More

Pleasant Surprise

February 08, 2023

Product: Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

I bought this on a whim during the C&D sale. I found this to be a very nice burley forward blend. Very smooth and easy smoking. Lots of flavor.

I don't reach for it often, but its good

November 30, 2022

Product: Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

Tin note of stewed figs, spices, and a pungent note. Tobacco cut is more of a course cut with a little broken flake. Tobacco is colored brown with a little black. Moisture is ok, no prep needed. Burns a little slow with few relights. The strength is medium to strong and nic is medium. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium to full and consistent, with notes of Plums, dry earth, wood, cocoa, musty hay, spiced bread, sour lemon grass, spicy herbs, floral, bitter nuts, a mildly sweet background note, and a very peppery retro. Burley is leading with Perique supporting. Oriental/Turkish are supporting to a lesser extent, and the Virginias are there in spirit only. Room note is tolerable, and aftertaste is good....Read More

Nutty, Complex… Soapy

August 01, 2021

By: Pretentious Pedantry

Product: Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

This is certainly a very classic-type non-aromatic blend, with burley and cavendish very forward. The Virginias are barely present. Turkish leaf brings in some interesting complexity but it has a soapy finish. If you like burley/American type blends you should find it quite excellent. For me it rang a bit flat or hollow. Better for fall or winter, not much of a summer blend. I have five tins of this stuff, most likely going in the cellar. Perhaps age will liven it up or mellow it out....Read More

Wierd Turkish

June 06, 2021

By: Yuan Yang K.

Product: Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

It taste like OJK, but I think the oriental break the balance, make it taste wierd and not sweet as OJK.

Pierre LeRoux Was A Riverboat Gambler, And He Had This Special Blend...

October 30, 2020

By: Puffin’ Pied Piper

Product: Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

Shifty-eyed Cajun riverboat gambler Pierre LeRoux sits at the round table with his three poker rivals, his boot dagger and derringer out of sight but not out of reach, his Remington sidearm a bit more noticeable, his playing cards in hand. He puffs away at his all-day from his meerschaum pipe, fashioned in the likeness of a tempting siren. He was sure that morning to bring a pouch of his favorite blend—full-bodied but easy and mellow to ensure it doesn’t dominate his swigs of whiskey but compliments them, and not potent enough to make him feel light-headed while facing off for the winning pot, which builds by the hour.

This is that blend, and I thoroughly enjoyed it (even if LeRoux’s but a figment of my imagination). First its pleasant tin note—fragrant but not exactly fruity. It’s more vegetal, like sweet hay and slightly-sweet salad. Like Oak Alley, this is a good old rough-hewn old American-style tobacco, a cornucopia of burley, sweet Virginias that are evident on the tongue, along with peppery Perique. Orientals round out the mellowness, and add complexity. There’s no topping or flavor of coffee or chocolate, as we find with some burley blends. With this offering, you’re tasting just the natural flavors of its few components. I favor this blend, just not as much as Cornell & Diehl’s other burley stunners, like Oak Alley, Old Joe Krantz, and Briar Fox.

Riverboat Gambler could easily serve as my all-day smoke (every several days, that is) as it’s so mellow and easy to puff through many successive bowls. Another strong performance by Cornell and Diehl and its late blending virtuoso, Bob Runowski, and apparently his collaboration with Craig Tarler. 4.0 stars....Read More

All Aces

October 14, 2017

Product: Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

One exceptionally good blend, and a testament to how great Bob Runowski was at blending. So full of flavor, and it's a nice mix between heavy/rich and light. The tin is full of mahogany-colored ribbons and specks of black Perique, and its note is heavenly with that semisweet smell of Burleys and Orientals, and that "dark" and peppery Perique smell. The taste is similar to the smell, and all components shine through in the flavor equally, with the Perique at medium strength. The nicotine content is right in the middle at 5/10; not strong but not weak either, making it suitable for all pipers. Room note will be pleasant to pipers, while entirely tolerable for non-smokers. I enjoy wafting the smoke right into my face for a second whiff—it smells that good! This is definitely one to stock up on, and the only bummer is there's no 8oz tin....Read More

Beauty

August 12, 2018

Product: Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

Another Runowsky gem,vibrant taste and strenght in one .of course i will buy more ,i love it so much that i carved a special smaller chamber diameter pipe to inhibit the amount of smoked tobacco lol

I saw the light

September 21, 2015

By: Holysmokepipes

Product: Cornell & Diehl Riverboat Gambler 2oz

When I first tried “Riverboat Gambler”, I immediately noticed it was a great smoke, but for me there was still something missing. Not in terms of taste mind you - for it is nearly perfect - but in strength. “Ah, if it were the same, only stronger!”. Then, it daunt on me I might have just the right thing to boost this tobacco power. It was then when “I saw the light”: A perfect match, with very similar texture, cut, and an integral part of the composition Riverboat Gambler, albeit toned down somewhat. So I blended “Old Joe Krantz” for a totally outstanding new “Old Joe Gambler”, or if you prefer, “Riverboat Krantz”. Great product in whichever way you enjoy it, even my own way......Read More