I saw an interview with Mark Ryan, and what I gathered was that he didn’t really have any say what blends stay or go, and that in addition to some blends being slow sellers, a lot of it had to do with the new regulations and the new buyer not wanting to spend the money to get them approved-those are the newer pipe blends he created after D&R became strictly pipe tobacco. He also said that the tobaccos in Ramback are becoming impossible to source in anything but huge quantities, way more than would make economic sense.