Oldest Smoked Tobacco...

[tmcg81]

The oldest I've smoked is 9 year old MacBaren Navy Flake. It wasn't as good as I was expecting, but I'm still enjoying it. I haven't bought tobacco in a while, so everything I'm smoking is about 3 years old, and I find that I really enjoy stuff that's lightly aged. I'm excited to see how my cellar ages in the future.

 

[Mike N]

1918 may be the patent, not manufacture, date?

Yep.

 

[Uguccione]

I have some 20ish year old Jack's Tobacco Firehouse Dog with Syrian Latakia and perique that is pretty good, but it doesn't taste like a Lat blend any more and it's not spicy at all, it is the proverbial "stewed fruit" now.

I think that tobacco, a bit like wine, experiences a qualitative parable, first ascending and then descending, as the years pass.
In the cellar I still have a few bottles of wine from the 50s/60s/70s that my father collected.
Every now and then I open one out of curiosity; they are all still drinkable (as long as you let the wine breathe - with the bottle open - for at least 3 days before drinking it), but his best years are inevitably behind him.