Question About Rehydrating Tobacco

[Dshift]

I like to think I am knowledgeable about pipes, but unfortunately that knowledge doesn't translate well when it comes to tobacco. Every once and a while I would get some tobacco with an estate pipes lot, like these 2 sealed ones
So far I have been experimenting with rehydrating the very dry tobaccos using pipe tobacco humidors? Jars?
Also dipped my finger in blending and I personally really like the results, but even I can't trust my own opinion about tobacco.
So my question is - does the tobacco loose some quality or flavour if it dryed out and rehydrated again using this method?

P.S. while I wait for this Middleton to get ready, has anyone tried it before? Is it good? I have never seen it here in Europe, but I am excited because I remember from my child days , us getting some of those cheap cherry flavored cigars and smoking them. I still have vivid memories of really liking the flavor combination of tobacco and cherry.

 

[sablebrush52]

Middleton cherry was a very popular over-the-counter blend. A lot of people think that it tastes like cough medicine.
If it has completely dried out, some flavor will be lost. Might work to your advantage in this instance.
There are lots of ways to rehydrate tobacco. Mine is to place the tobacco in a bowl, drape paper towels wetted with distilled water over the rim, making sure that it doesn’t touch the tobacco, leave it for a couple of hours, then roll back the toweling, stir the tobacco, dampen the toweling if needed, lay it back over top, and give it another couple of hours.
Put the tobacco in a jar and seal tight. Check it in a week and give it a try. May smoke well, may smoke like crap. You don’t know until you try.