Looks like Dunhill.
Smells like tobacco.
In stock at GQ in the UK.
Life is good.
Mark
Smells like tobacco.
In stock at GQ in the UK.
Life is good.
Mark
Dunhill Peterson delivered from GQ
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Still hard to wrap my head around seeing Peterson stamped on a Dunhill tin. ?
I‘ve never smoked the Dunhill Flaker before so my only comparison is with the Charatan Flake and Dark Flake and some European flakes. I really like the Charatan Flake and Dark Flake. This Peterson‘s version is so mild that I was a bit disappointed. I‘ll have to try it again to be sure but it didn’t excite me as much as I had hoped.
DDNR has always been one of my top favourites. Charatan Rolls are good but don‘t excite me quite as much. Escudo is a reasonable alternative but also not quite as good for me. I sometime like Roper‘s Roundels and other times I am less enthused. Davidson rolls are good but also not quite up to DDNR. I used to really like Heinrich‘s Curly Block but have been disappointed the last few times I tried it. I wasn‘t too worried because I still have a number of tins of Dunhill DDNR in the large tins with little content. But having STG put DDNR into production under the Peterson label was wonderful news.
I‘m smoking my first bowl of the Peterson DNR at the moment. It lights well and burns really well. But it‘s not as exciting as the DDNR I remember. I‘ll have to do a side by side comparison to be sure, but I don‘t think it is identical with DDNR because it is lacking some of the flavour..
It amazes me how memory works on pipe tobacco. I used to smoke Balkan Sobranie White back in the 70s and then didn‘t smoke a pipe again until 4 years ago. Three weeks ago, Marty Pulvers was in the UK, and he shared two bowls of an old tin of that tobacco with me. I don‘t smoke Latakia blends any more but this tasted identical to what I remembered, and I could understand why I kept smoking it all day, every day at the time. DDNR has made an equally strong impression on me, so it is disappointing that it may also
truly no longer exist.Mark
No reason whatsoever that DDNR won’t be the same except human nature is wired such that our expectations overwhelm reality.
We just received confirmation that Peterson/Dunhill blends will ship to US retailers sometime next week.
Russ
Russ
It may be wishful thinking, but I’m kind of hoping that the local cigar and tobacco shop here in Perth (Western Australia) will stock the former Dunhill tobaccos as well when they said they were looking to stock up on Peterson blends.
I’ve never tried any of the Dunhill flakes and I would to try some, even if it is expensive here.
I’ve never tried any of the Dunhill flakes and I would to try some, even if it is expensive here.
THIS is as close as one can get to coming straight from the horse's mouth. Thanks Russ!
You called it last year when everyone (myself included) was saying "Dunhill gone forever."
I hope they remain the same. No one has said anything about Elizabethan making it across the pond....
Seems that you are right.
I was so convinced that you were werong and there was a difference in taste that I loaded up the same pipe with DDNR from an tin from 1918. I also loaded the new Peterson‘s DNR in a second pipe made by the pipe maker’s father. I am now smoking them in parallel. The only difference I can see is the Peterson‘s burns better. They taste the same, and both are different from my memories.
Mark
It is weird sometimes. I smoked a lot of the Scandinavian Tobacco Group's Navy Rolls (and Elizabethan Mixture almost exclusively), when that blend was regurlarly available and liked it very much. When I heard, that the Dunhills would be discontinued, I stopped smoking them, because I wanted to find other tobaccos to like and found some. Then, when I heard, that the Dunhill blends would be re-released, I opened a 2016 tin from my humble cellar and did no longer like it very much. I also had the impression, that it tasted different than in my memory, but I came to the conclusion, that my taste must have changed, since I learned to like other blends.
But all in all, thanks for your impressions, Mark!
But all in all, thanks for your impressions, Mark!
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