Haywards Mixture

[ray47]

My question is for those who have smoked the discontinued blend Hayward's Mixture, previously blended by Phillip Morris or have some knowledge of this blend. Is there a currently produced blend that comes close to it in taste? It was Bing Crosby's favorite blend, according JimInks.

 

[Strange Quark]

I had tired the Lane Limited version about twenty-five years ago. It was a dark brown blend with a few lighter highlights and black leaf varieties. The base seemed like short rough cut burley with a smaller amount of large cut cube, an appreciable amount of latakia (15-20% '?') and perhaps some black cavendish all tied together with a molasses flavor. At the time I didn't like but I would appreciate a blend like this more these days. I've never come across anything like but based on description Lane's HGL might be in the ballpark with a play between the latakia and some sweeter casing.