The notion is nonsense. Almost every pipe I've smoked as been drilled correctly with wood of a sufficient cure, not that I would know if it was green, but I hope I would. Given this baseline, all of these pipes have smoked tobacco of whatever cut equally well. Others will disagree, but I feel that all the discussion about brands or bowl size or geometry, or pairings between a pipe and a tobacco such that that pipe smokes that tobacco especially well exist only by the suggestibility of the subjectivity of pipe smokers.
There is no proof for any of these opinions. I imagine that there is some variability of the palate one smoker to the next. But I would imagine that our genetic heritage provides most of with the standard equipment of taste buds and semantic memory, home to impressions of past smokes, which allows us to compare the current smoke of a blend to past to prior smokes and conclude whether the current fits well enough with the past to fit. All of this is standard.
What is variable is the ever-changing conditioning of the mind, which varies enormously person-to-person through the dynamics of personality. People are full of deadends and switchbacks, including myself. I think it far more likely that these anomalies register such perceived difference between pipes than the standard issue of the palate. A palate can become increasingly acute through training, but I very much doubt that it can exceed its original functioning.
All of this is just my opinion. YMMV. It's just opinion and I hope if yours is different we can further discuss the difference and benefit by that exploration.
