Since taking the monthly Tobacco File out of hiatus at the start of 2024, I've been considering ways I might break with the structure of the column. One thing that I always have fun with is featuring pipe tobacco's with some sort of relevant thread that ties them together—whether it's blends of …

Hello, hello! It has been a pleasant, mild October with one pleasant, mild blend and one, well, pleasant blend. I’ll be getting into  Cobblestone Camping from the Outdoors series and—a bit in theme with the spooky season drawing to a close—the Lovecraft inspired Dreams of Kadath from Co …

Jump to... Carolina Red Flake Sansepolcro The Beast Sun Bear From Beyond Eight State Burley Folklore Palmetto Balkan We’ve seen many small batch and limited run blends from a number of brands lately. It seems each has a story of its own, so we wanted to explore these r …

Another two weeks enjoying two great blends, G. L. Pease Westminster and Cornell & Diehl Pegasus. This is one of those rare Tobacco Files where I’m actually revisiting a blend and not having something for the first time. I got a tin of Pegasus some months back and smoked a bit …

Hello, hello—What I Smoked This Week apparently is nautical themed today. Why? I'm not sure—It's Friday, I'm hours from posting the column, and I just noticed. At any rate, today we have Cornell & Diehl Black Frigate and Capstan Original Navy Flake. Black FrigateLatakia and T …

So in last week's column, I said I'd be doing the four blends in the Cobblestone Indulge Series between two weeks—I covered Vanilla Custard and Walnut Maple Pie last week, and this column was going to feature Creme Brulee and Cherry Delight. Obviously, those are not the blends pictured abo …

Silicon Valley may be famed for its garage-to-riches success stories, but tech isn’t the only place where a modest household beginning signals great heights. The tobacco community has our own narrative to crow about—Cornell & Diehl, a source of exceptionally fine tobacco since 1992. That’s the y …