Description
Inspired by a holiday punch mixture that Head Blender Jeremy Reeves' mom used to make at Christmas time. A little largesse from St. Nick's personal smoking pouch, Cornell & Diehl's Jolly Old St. Nicholas combines the finest golden Virginias with mellow Black Cavendish and a whisper of genuine St. James Perique for complex tobacco flavour enhanced by notes of orange liqueur, spice, and hints of ginger.
Blend Details & Components
- Components: Bright/golden Virginias, mellow Black Cavendish (including an in-house Burley Black Cavendish and a Dominican cigar black Cavendish), and a pinch of genuine St. James Perique.
- Topping / Flavor Notes: Topped with orange liqueur, spice, and ginger, drawing inspiration from a family holiday champagne/mock-champagne punch recipe with citrus, almond, and ginger.
Characteristics (per C&D profile)
- Strength: 2/5
- Room Note: 2/5 (sweet orange cream with a touch of brown sugar)
- Taste: 3/5
- Cut: Ribbon
We are delighted to get a hold of a very small number of tins for Canada - it has been selling out the moment Cornell and Diehl completes a new batch Size: 50g tin. Note: these are now shipping in plain packaging.
About Cornell and Diehl Pipe Tobaccos
When Craig and Patty Tarler bought and loaded the remnants of an old pipe tobacco company into a van and drove it off in 1992, all they had were a few pounds of tobacco, some recipes, some flavourings, and a handful of accounts. They couldn’t have known that their newly christened company, Cornell & Diehl, would grow into the dynamic tobacco manufacturer it is today, with distribution in the U.S., Canada, Russia, Ukraine, Malaysia, Spain...the list keeps expanding.
At first, manufacturing was performed in the Tarler garage in Pennsylvania, then in the Tarler garage in Morganton, North Carolina, when they moved in 1994. A few years later they moved into a large warehouse facility to accommodate growing production, and in 2014, C&D merged with Laudisi Enterprises and moved to Longs, South Carolina--and a workspace almost three times larger, and more than doubling production.
Within three years, C&D had outgrown that space as well, and in 2018 moved to another facility, more than twice as large as the previous. Trying to keep up with demand has required numerous expansions.
Jeremy Reeves, head blender at C&D, says that square footage has always been the main factor. “We’ve been held back by space,” he says. “Space for processing, drying, product inventory. Space for more machinery, more efficient tinning. Now we don’t have to constantly shuffle things around to get the work done.”
Cornell & Diehl pipe tobacco continues to expand as its products are more recognized and in demand. “We’ll keep growing as long as pipe smokers want our products,” says Jeremy. “We keep trying to find our limits.” There’s no sign that will happen in the foreseeable future.
