Just checking out SP and noticed that Royal Yacht is no longer even shown. https://www.smokingpipes.com/tobacco/by-maker/dunhill/ Does this mean that is all she wrote for that blend and there is no new stock coming in?
Royal Yacht - Gone for Good?
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Yeah, I looked everywhere... I couldn't find it in stock. I have 30 tins ;-) but somehow I feel I need more
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I knew that was the case eventually, but had also heard there was a fair amount of stock left in the system. Maybe not so much anymore though. That was the point of my post.
Not completely gone, they are still at my BnM for 64$ a tin. Good news for you guys in the states it’s in Canadian dollars.
I have one lonely unopened tin I'm saving for a RY emergency. I'm one of those fully disoriented optimists that thinks most of the big selling Dunhill blends will re-emerge either as accurate matches or expropriated re-named duplicates. The Dunhill blends were money makers of a kind, and I am skeptical that the industry will just walk away. That's like leaving a twenty dollar bill on the sidewalk and supposing it will stay there until you get back. I don't think so.
I have my doubts about whether rebranded Dunhill blends will be sold at all in the U.S. due to the FDA deeming regs. Based on my understanding of those regulations, rebranded blends would be considered post-2007 blends subject to the "substantial equivalency" requirements, and who knows how much bureaucracy that might involve. Anyhow, I think there is a real chance that we are seeing the last of the Dunhill blends. I suppose they could be manufactured and sold until the deeming regulations begin to be enforced (currently scheduled for 2021 I believe) but who knows. It's a guessing game.
You've summed it up completely and neatly.
But, believers will continue to believe, however irrational that belief. If they resurface under another name, it will be temporary and you better stuff your cupboards. Keep in mind that the Dunhill blends would not have qualified for grandfathering in any case, because BAT pulled them from the US market for a time. They were doomed, I tell you, DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!
sable', I know you're likely right. Ordinarily blending matches would churn into gear, but then there's the whole deeming regulation issue in the U.S. Still I wonder if market forces will chew away in the regular market or in a black market. Hey, buddy, wanna buy a tin of Nightcap, only seventy bucks?
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