Hello Elric, I smoke primarily English style tobacco and occasionally mature Virginia. I just un-cellared a bunch of tobacco, that was in a tub for the past 10 years. In December of 1999, I put into a sealed tub, a pound each of : Dunhill My Mixture 965, Dunhill Early Morning Pipe, Dunhill Nightcap, Mac Baren Scottish Blend, local house blends Westminister, English Long Cut, and a Mature Virginia. I also tossed in 4 tins of Dunhill Standard Mixture. I got the Dunhills way back, in 1999, when bulk Dunhill was readily available and reasonably inexpensive. Lttle did I know that they would stop blending pipe tobacco last year, so it turned out to be a great choice to tuck some away.
I didn't mean for it to be cellared for that long, but I had my brother take it up to Washington state, when he moved there from Phoenix in 2002. I wanted to cellar it in the much lower humidity, and keep it somewhere where I couldn't get my mits on it for about 5 years. This was my first long-term tobacco aging experiment. With the Dunhills being so available, I just kept putting off having it sent down.
I had never been to see him so I went up to Washington two weeks ago and brought it back with me. After Dunhill folded, I had enough on hand to last a couple of years, but I was nervous that the tobacco would go flat. I'm thrilled to say that my first impressions of it are spectacular!
