The Importance of Age

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thehappypiper

Can't Leave

Feb 27, 2014

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• Mar 13, 2014

• #1

Hello all

Just five minutes ago I finished a bowl of G.L. Pease' Abingdon. When I got this blend last June I quite liked it, but found it a bit 'bright'; not exactly harsh, but not quite as wonderful as I'd hoped. After only ten months in the cellar, it has changed in a way I could never have predicted. It is much deeper, mellower and quite simply much better. I have noticed a similar deepening of the Va/Per blend I got, cannot for the life of me rememer the name.

So please, get enough GLP to cellar a lot of it and have patience. I really wish I'd bought about 5 times more Union Square now

 

sfsteves

Lifer

Aug 3, 2013

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SF Bay Area

• Mar 13, 2014

• #2

Makes me wonder if I too am improving with age ... I know that MrsS, for one, would be pleased with 'mellower' ...

 

pipetraveler

Might Stick Around

Feb 20, 2014

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• Mar 13, 2014

• #3

Yea, U agree we are much like a fine wine, I have many blends that I prove with age. There's hope for all of us.

 

pipetraveler

Might Stick Around

Feb 20, 2014

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• Mar 13, 2014

• #4

Not quite awake yet.

 

flakyjakey

Lifer

Aug 21, 2013

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• Mar 13, 2014

• #5

Shit, sorry!! I do miss those specs - I misread it as "ImpOtence", and I was just about to wax poetical on the subject !! lol. Forgive me.

 

rmbittner

Lifer

Dec 12, 2012

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1,995

• Mar 13, 2014

• #6

Happy:
I don't know how long you've been smoking a pipe -- you play it close to the vest in your Profile! -- but if you have the stock to let your tins age for at least 3 years, I think you'll be very pleased. And if you don't have the supply for that now, it's something I'd suggest considering for the future. . . buy one tin to smoke and one (or more) to forget about in the cellar.
Bob

 

cosmicfolklore

Lifer

Aug 9, 2013

33,999

75,766

Between the Heart of Alabama and Hot Springs NC

• Mar 13, 2014

• #7

Check out a B&M. When I order online, I tend to get fresh stuff, because they flip inventory more often. But, when I go to my B&M, he keeps dragging out boxes of tins that have at least 5+ years on it, especially in the C&D and GLP line up. Of course, some of the more popular blends, he has to keep :::blah::: fresh tins, because he runs out occasionally.

 

brudnod

Part of the Furniture Now

Aug 26, 2013

938

6

Great Falls, VA

• Mar 13, 2014

• #8

I purchased a package of those little stickers from Office Depot (US) and put a sticker on the bottom of the tin such as "PD 2014/03/13" (the year/month/day format is in case I ever put my cellar collection on a spreadsheet - wouldn't it be nice to have that much stashed away!). Even if the tin happens to have a date on it, I am more interested in how long it is in my cellar under very controlled conditions of temperature, etc. Who knows where the stuff was stored before it got to me.

Spencer

 

mso489

Lifer

Feb 21, 2013

41,210

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• Mar 13, 2014

• #9

I'm smoking down several of my over-the-counter and bulk blends and letting my sealed tins age, including

GLP Westminster, Dunhill Royal Yacht and Elizabethan, Low Country Cooper, and others. A little time after

the tin is opened often brings up tobacco even more, like letting wine breathe after opening. I have some of

the stand-up tins where the artwork shows lined up across the top of a pipe cabinet and they look really good.

 

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thehappypiper

Can't Leave

Feb 27, 2014

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• Mar 13, 2014

• #10

Hey rmbittner

My pipesmoking has been in two phases, for a couple of years in the late Eighties and this time around I'm into my seventh year. I've only really encountered maturing in the context of GLP as far as I'm aware, on tobaccoreviews.com and on this site. I'm only 45 so I can look forward to many decades of enjoyment [hopefully]. Thing is, I'm on the move, or at least haven't settled down, so it'll be a bit difficult to put some down for a few years.

 

foggymountain

Lifer

Aug 14, 2012

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• Mar 15, 2014

• #11

My wife has been improving with age too.

 

crazypipe

Lifer

Sep 23, 2012

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• Mar 15, 2014

• #12

Timeing is everything ::

 

stbruno70

Part of the Furniture Now

Jul 9, 2013

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• Mar 16, 2014

• #13

Whenever I open a tin that has been slumbering in my cellar, I like to think: we have both aged. Let's see who has fared better.