Murray's Royal Yacht

I'm aging a tin of the new version. I've heard so much about the blend, but I'm interested to hear about the

original. Enjoy 'em while you have them since nothing lasts. Every year is a different tobacco crop, and

companies will always buy each other out.

Does this one contain tonquin?

Way back when (short for 'back in the day') in the mid seventies, I smoked a lot of Royal Yacht - together with Ye Olde Signe, Morning Pipe, Sobranie 759 and Altadis Byzantium (blended for Georgetown Tobacco Co.) Would this have been the Murray blend? Last week I purchased a tin of Royal Yacht in the open market and was curious to compare it with my memories of the smoke. I came home and cracked it open, stuffed my GJ bent bulldog and lit it up. I was expecting the first puff to roil out and around the bowl, carrying immediately familiar fragrances and triggering long lost memories. Like that ubiquitous 50 ton elephant in the room, it wasn't there. The tobacco is of obviously fine quality, no quarrels there and it may carry the name and perhaps, as others have reported or supposed, needs considerable aging, but it is not THE Royal Yacht I remember. This re-launched Royal Yacht lacked the deeply rich tin note I remembered (or thought I did) and which others describe as plumb. In the smoking, it was dry to the palate and lacked that lush, overgrown headiness. The nicotine however, seemed stronger because that aspect of the smoke seemed more forward. I'll try it again in a couple of weeks and see if my impressions remain. If so, then I'll stash it for a few years and keep my memories of it together with Ye Olde Signe. In the meantime, since the blend is now Orlik related, I'm experimenting with non-English/Balkan blends and looking forward to try some of their Golden Sliced.

I enjoy the current RY offering, but I'm going to spring for a Murry's tin just to see how it used to be.

Good afternoon, just now I´m coming to this forum....... I´m in Spain and several days ago I had a discussion with several colleagues about the Royal Yatch.....

I remember the RY of 70 years, when I sailing as Captain between Holland and UK, and I like too much the RY taht I can bought "as free tax" and I had smoked it along the several years..... only Royal Yatch...... Well, Sirs, the question is: the RY at present is the same as the many years ago...... (sorry for my english).

When one of my friends show me the RY I become creisy because for me "some thing is wrong".... I can remembering the RY of 70th and the rolls are small rolls with a yellow colours..... total different at the present. They said that I am wrong because the RY always were as the present.

Also the tin is not the same, but I´m not talking about the tin, not, I am talking about the tobacco, I believe that could be any kind or virginia......

I would be very grateful if somebody have any answer or idea about this matter.

Thank a lot to everybody

The Europium version was much better than the exported floor sweepings that were sent to the US.

I smoked Royal Yacht in the sixties, seventies on to the present, and it is the Dunhill blend that has changed the most. I, however, like the new version better than the previous ones. When you opened one of the tins manufactured by Dunhill. it was moist and almost sticky, The pleated paper was stained brown, and the plum flavour was stronger. The new version is more a straight foreward African Virginia, quite plain. As I have a weakness for plain tobaccos, I prefer the new.

I'll piggyback on this thread rather than start another. I'm smoking my first tin of Dunhill's Royal Yacht. I got it to try what I understood to be a straight Virginia. I'm unacquainted with other Virginias, unless Sixpence counts. I'd been smoking this RY in my new Huck Finn Cob, but have a bowl going now in my Peterson B5 Bent Bulldog, in which I've smoked a small variety of blends. My palate is uneducated, so I don't yet trust my judgment. This blend tastes sharp and tangy. In the Cob, I seemed to taste lemon, but now it just tastes sharp. I don't mean sharp as in tongue-bite, just sharp like in a cheap, bottom shelf Scotch, which isn't appealing. Is that Perique I'm tasting? I don't think I'll order more of this. I actually understand why someone above might think it tastes like weasel piss, although I'm not actually familiar with that particular flavor. These are just first impressions.
Edit: I just looked through the comments, and that reference to weasel piss must have been in another thread on maybe a different tobacco.

I sold an old tin to a chum of mine on this forum. Royal Yuck is a totally unpleasant experience and I would rather have my testicle sack stapled to the floor while being buggered by a gnome wearing a barbed wire condom and then ever go near this stuff again!

So in other words, Simon, you don't care for Royal Yacht. :rofl:

condorlover1, you need to type up a long, G.L. Pease style review concerning Royal Yacht and publish it. Get in to some long winding memories and wax poetic about the broken sewer pipes in your youth. All kidding aside, I've not had the old version, but I've considered seeking it out. The new version is the only Dunhill tin I go out of my way to keep on hand.

I tried it again in my Cob. This one is just not to my taste. I'll keep it jarred and try it 6 months from now. Maybe it needs aging.

@eric: Here are a group of typical holiday makers from Yorkshire!
https://youtu.be/IJFq2jhgQT8

Simon,
Hilarious, I found myself looking for a Falcon Pipe smoker throughout the video! LOL
Eric

Glad you liked that one Eric ...... Just remember Yorkshire Airlines ay up and away! :rofl: