Should I drive 3 hours to buy this vintage tobacco?

[Sacred_summit]

Hi everyone, good morning and happy piping!
I live in alberta, where 50g tin of decent tobacco costs $60 canadian... our taxes are absurd.

I usually order from 4noggins.com (if I keep my order to 150g it seems to get through fine. If I order 200g or more I get slammed with taxes.)

There is a seller on kijiji who lives 1.5 hours from me selling 159g sealed jars of tobacco from 2010 (aged 14 yeare)

$75 dollars per jar. (About half the price of paying in store.)

1.) Are these good flavors?
2.) Which flavor do you recommend I get? Or flavors if I buy a few?

Attaching photos.

 

[Sigmund]

I dont know the tobacco, others will but make it a fun road trip. Do you like latakia...they are all lat blends.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Hell, I sometimes drive three hours just to find a bathroom that has doors on the stalls. Do it!

 

[Sacred_summit]

I dont know the tobacco, others will but make it a fun road trip. Do you like latakia...they are all lat blends.

I can't recall if I do.

The tobaccos I have now I don't enjoy much. Ones I've tried prior I've loved.


My go to blends

Becks limey bastard
Sherlock Holmes
Nightcap
Vertical limit
Gold rush
Haunted bookshelf
3 nuns
I do have a balkin mix by Samuel I enjoy

 

[Sacred_summit]

How does it being aged by 14 years improve thing?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Those are OK blends. Maybe Atlas would benefit from age, but... how well do you know this person that is offe3ring this? Because I would never buy a jarred blend from anyone. $75 for something that you cannot with absolute certainty know that they were popping those jars from time to time, disrupting the aging process. I am not opposed to someone aging blends in jars; however, after years of hearing people arguing over popping jars in the aging process, I wouldn't trust a son of a gun farther than I could throw him.

That would have to be a HARD PASS for me. But... it's you time and money.

 

[Sigmund]

I didnt look carefully. I though they were tins.

 

[Sacred_summit]

I didn't realize they wouldn't be sealed. Thank you! Hard pass for me to.

 

[jpberg]

I’d buy them, given your circumstances. I mean, you can’t guarantee that what’s inside matches what’s on the label, but I’m hard pressed to think anyone would try to pull a scam with those blends.

 

[AroEnglish]

I’d look up the blends on TR. I would imagine they’re legit like jpberg said. Maybe offer him $200 for the lot.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Latakia blends don't improve much with age. In fact, some would argue after 10 years, they start to become bland. I don't know that I agree with that but I don't care, I'm not A latakia fan.Drive 3 hours? I wouldn't walk across the street for it if they were giving it away. But that's just me.

Keep in mind, you're not just spending $75. At fifty cents per mile for fuel and vehicle wear and tear, you're spending more than double that.

 

[anotherbob]

Hi everyone, good morning and happy piping!
I live in alberta, where 50g tin of decent tobacco costs $60 canadian... our taxes are absurd.

I usually order from 4noggins.com (if I keep my order to 150g it seems to get through fine. If I order 200g or more I get slammed with taxes.)

There is a seller on kijiji who lives 1.5 hours from me selling 159g sealed jars of tobacco from 2010 (aged 14 yeare)

$75 dollars per jar. (About half the price of paying in store.)

1.) Are these good flavors?
2.) Which flavor do you recommend I get? Or flavors if I buy a few?

Attaching photos.

I'd do it. Might meet a new friend. Getting out of town is nice. And all of those at slightly above retail is a steal (comparably).

 

[kcghost]

I would pass on the jarred containers if you do not now the seller extremely well. These blends certainly are not what I think of when it comes to vintage blends.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Might meet a new friend.

Yeh, I imagine that you could find someone willing to be your friends every three hours of driving. Ha, I'm kidding, I'm kidding... I just made that up. Trying to be positive.

On second thought, maybe it is someone who is just trying to attract a friend to drive to them. It could be someone worse than you. See, I made it even more positive.

 

[jpmcwjr]

OP has decided: No.