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I concur! It taste like lemon cookies
Yes indeed, one of my favourite tobaccos and ages superbly
too
Thought 15 years was long enough for this Union Square. Some nice crystally bits in there. Probably give it few days to wake up.
Birthday this week. Decided to crack open a tin of Vanners by Fribourg & Treyer. This particular tin was purchased mid-year 2008, making it a Bush era tin. This came from roughly the same time I lit up my first pipe, as a freshman undergrad at a Christian college in rural SC.
I didn't know who the hell I was or what the hell I was doing. Still, there's something reminiscent and calming about a historic blend made in that era, in that moment. Part of me thinks it was a simpler time, while the rest of me thinks that that's what everybody always thinks.
I didn't know who the hell I was or what the hell I was doing. Still, there's something reminiscent and calming about a historic blend made in that era, in that moment. Part of me thinks it was a simpler time, while the rest of me thinks that that's what everybody always thinks.
The birthday tin escapades continue...
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@jbfrady Happy birthday!
All I can say is ...chocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolatechocolate etc.
@jbfrady Happy birthday!
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& enjoy. 
Happy birthday and smoke away.
Interesting tin of Virginia Flake that I got from @simong in a trade that is German and maybe dates from sometime in the 1980s. It tastes quite interesting and makes for an interesting change from my usual diet of Gawith's rose geranium out put!
Now that it's my actual birthday, I popped the Dunhill tin, circa 2015, smoked in an Ash Cooper. I still have some of the Pete version open, so I showed them here for a side-by-side comparison. Needless to say, it ain't the same. The Virginias in the Dunhill are much redder and the tin smells of lemon zest. There appears to be less perique in the Dunhill as well. Either that, or it blended visually over time.
I'd say all the difference is attributable to age. Which did you prefer as a smoke?
Me too
I’m smoking Pete DNR’s right now and they are as good as the Dunhill ones I have in the cellar, just more youthful
My wife is a big fan of Danish aromatics and her tin of Caribbean Blue Graham just kicked the bucket. I found this next tin on Tinbids a few months ago, but to be honest, I have no idea what in God's green hell this is. I can't seem to find info on it anywhere.
It's clearly an aromatic, with a tin note of hot chocolate and a late Bush administration era date on it. I guess sometimes you just need some "marple" & spice in your life.
It's clearly an aromatic, with a tin note of hot chocolate and a late Bush administration era date on it. I guess sometimes you just need some "marple" & spice in your life.
Looks like TR has a little info on other blends, but not that one: Tobacco Reviews - https://www.tobaccoreviews.com/brand/217/danish-import/
Care to submit a review?
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I'd have to say the Dunhill. It had more spice to the retrohale, which shouldn't be the case of the products we're identical. The Dunhill's perique should've been mellower. I believe they're the same recipe in terms of VA to Perique, but I don't believe it's the same Virginia or perique.
I’d guess yearly crop fluctuations? Since STG made Dunhill blends since 2005(?) it’s the same company making both tins.
It could be, but there's no rule against changing the leaves, so long as you're not changing varietals. On the face of the Peterson tin it says "Original Recipe" 5 times, as though to ensure the patron that nothing has changed.
But what it says to me is... original recipe is the thing specified. If I make a chicken alfredo with ingredients from Whole Foods and then I make the same exact recipe with the same ingredients purchased from Walmart, I can claim that they're identical dishes, even though they'll taste at least as different as Pepsi and Coke.
I'm not saying Peterson is employing Great Value leaf, but after purchasing the rights to the recipe, there's nothing saying they didn't follow the age-old business trend of trying to cut down cost.
From STG's perspective, they just get paid to mash the shit up and cut it, but I can't imagine they have so much say in purchasing and sourcing. I could be wrong, of course.