I have been meaning to post about this for a while now, and I am finally getting around to it. I had a tin of Opening Night from 10 yrs and 7 yrs (see other thread about Gaslight for reference). Pictures are worth a thousand words, here they are:
Maybe you can guess which one is older and which is younger, but when I had this aged beauty it was the best tobacco I had tried to date. The moisture was perfect, the smell was like fermented beer and the flavor was fig and dried fruits, which makes my mouth water thinking about it! Perfect flakes stacked on each other in the tin.
Then when I opened the 7 yr old tin, the note had a hint of the fermented beer, but more hay/grass scent. The flakes were brighter and broken throughout the entire tin, not single full flake. The 7 yr tobacco did not knock me off my feet as that first tin did. Good, but not memorable like the first.
Question for discussion, any one else ever experience this with tobacco?
Maybe you can guess which one is older and which is younger, but when I had this aged beauty it was the best tobacco I had tried to date. The moisture was perfect, the smell was like fermented beer and the flavor was fig and dried fruits, which makes my mouth water thinking about it! Perfect flakes stacked on each other in the tin.
Then when I opened the 7 yr old tin, the note had a hint of the fermented beer, but more hay/grass scent. The flakes were brighter and broken throughout the entire tin, not single full flake. The 7 yr tobacco did not knock me off my feet as that first tin did. Good, but not memorable like the first.
Question for discussion, any one else ever experience this with tobacco?