Better than Carolina Red Flake IMO
March 07, 2025
Product: Low Country Edisto 2oz
Bread, nuts, orange citrus, sugar, spice, and zest. While I did like Carolina Red and Anthology 2023, they didn't wow me. Especially for the rarity. Honestly, thought this was going to be like C&D Interlude but I find this more flavorful.
January 19, 2025
Product: Low Country Edisto 2oz
This is a solid choice if you are looking for a deep, malty type of Virginia that is available year-round. On some puffs I get wonderful sweet, malty, and bready notes. However, I find it difficult to coax those flavors out of the tobacco at times, hence the slightly lowered rating.
December 30, 2024
Product: Low Country Edisto 2oz
Been smoking a lot of Opening Nights and Edisto since McClelland closed their doors. For me Edisto is the red virginia version of Opening Nights. Opening Nights is a full spectrum virginia. Anyway, I finally opened my last tin of McClelland Christmas Cheer (2017). A full spectrum virginia. I lit a bowl of McClelland's, I said to myself, yep, this is a damn good virginia. The next day I lit a bowl of Edisto, I said to myself, this is better! As a matter of fact this is the best! Eventually I'll finish my last four ounces of Christmas Cheer, but you know what? As long as Edisto is available, I won't miss McClelland a bit....Read More
October 15, 2024
Product: Low Country Edisto 2oz
Not bad, but not great.
August 25, 2024
Product: Low Country Edisto 2oz
Hello, all my brothers of the leaf (thank you Duane Noel) and thank you Shane Ireland and crew for the awesome review. Virginia and Va-per blends do not appeal to me at all. They are like a sugar high that dwells in the frontal lobe and ultimately make me nauseated. I like the junkyard dawg, burley flake, MS mud, DFK type blends. However, blends like this just have something that alot of others don't. Its intriguing if you're willing to sit and contemplate with it. And sometimes thats just what we need. God bless, pipe family....Read More
September 09, 2023
Product: Low Country Edisto 2oz
This is a great red Virginia flake great flavor and easy smoking strong enough for a Balkan guy to enjoy. This may not be Carolina Red Flake but it is a very solid and cheap everyday driver. Will put a couple lbs in the cellar
April 05, 2023
Product: Low Country Edisto 2oz
If you like Carolina Red Flake, you'll probably like this. It's got more brightness than CRF, while still having plenty of body and VA depth. For me, that means I MIGHT like it even more than CRF, which is awesome, because it's a little cheaper and a LOT more available!
February 23, 2023
Product: Low Country Edisto 2oz
Tin note of grassy, tangy fruit, and spices. Tobacco is a flake of reddish brown and dark brown with a little tan sprinkled in. Moisture content is great. Flakes rub out easily. Burns moderate with few relights. The strength is medium and nic is mild to medium. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium and very consistent, with notes of spices, bready, sweet hay, floral, fermented vegetation, woody, sugar, savory, spicy, lemon zest, acidic, earthy, tart almost bitter citrus, dry, a sweet grassy background note, and a peppery retro. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is great....Read More
January 20, 2023
Product: Low Country Edisto 2oz
The first born of CRF! Sweet red Virginias that are ready straight out of the tin. Flavorful and full throughout the bowl. Early an all day blend, readily available and priced reasonably.
Another unsuccessful new mix from C&D
May 16, 2022
Product: Low Country Edisto 2oz
This is once again a blend I was pulled into by the chatter. Once again the tin note was good, some dark fruit, little hay, smelled intriguing. Once again the smoke itself started out ok, but then by the midway, the casing had burned off and the low quality leaf showed through. It’s these green young Virginias that are a common theme in all these new C&D blends. Windjammer was a similar experience for me. It’s the same thing EVERY TIME, “tobacco pressed and sliced into delicate flakes”. Same presentation, same young leaf with a different casing. I keep getting rooked in to trying these new releases and I’m let down every time. This will be the last time I buy a tin of these new blends....Read More