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Rivertown Tobacco Works - Crimson Shadow
Your new budget all day blend!
C&D Winchester is my absolute favorite bulk blend (my review refers to it as a modern codger blend). Crimson Shadow is a very good competitor, and I was pleasantly surprised. While Winchester has a Burley Cavendish, which provides a drier nutty sweetness with the Virginias, the standard Cavendish in Crimson Shadow provides the classic sweet brown sugar notes with the fruity dark Virginias. Very, very tasty and pound-purchase worthy on its own or might play amazingly well in a home blend with a dash of Dark Fired. Don't hesitate, just get it. Half star deducted simply due to the lack of flavor complexity.
Cornell & Diehl - Winchester
A modern elegant codger blend!!
Such a great anytime/all day blend! It can be smoked when being contemplative or when doing other tasks. When contemplating, I get alternating flavors of dark fruit, chocolate chip oatmeal cookie, almond, sweet earth, and some slight floral notes. The red Virginia and burley/Cavendish play so seamlessly well together. If I had to compare, I would say this is smoother, sweeter, and lacking the random sour notes of Pegasus (which I still love). Worthy of purchase by the pound, without a doubt!! C&D has truly updated the codger blend with a natural beauty that doesn't need any of the old school toppings!!!!!
