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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken and green beans dinner with a scoop of Dutch chocolate ice cream for dessert. I'm almost half way through this bowl of year 2005 Sam Gawith Kendall Plug in a much cherished smooth straight grain three quarter bend 1979 Becker M 4 heart brandy with a black acrylic saddle stem. This will finish, sadly, the sample I was given. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
 

Jacob74

Lifer
Dec 22, 2019
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6,889
Killeen, TX
I've not had 10 year aged Miss R. Do you think it is because the Lat has mellowed, or do you suspect a change in recipe? Your aged stuff may have been blended directly by Joe Lankford as opposed to blended elsewhere.
I'm not an expert taster, but can tell you the tobacco looks different rubbed out compared to the new stuff. The recipe could be the same, or really close, but the difference in leaf is noticeable. Additionally, while I think that the latakia has definitely mellowed, the vintage MR has a ketchup-like taste that the newer edition definitely does not possess.
 

NewEnglandPiper38

Might Stick Around
Nov 4, 2019
72
565
Massachusetts, USA
Your Lucky Strike pic got me all nostalgic reminding me of the cartons that my wife's sister used to send and bring me from The States . . . used to smoke these after my usual Rameses and similar Turkish and other cigarettes became impossible to find in the U.K. in the early 1990s.

A trip down memory lane with a selection of the cigarettes I used to buy after I temporarily abandoned the pipe in the late 1980s and before I took up the pipe in the mid 1970s:-

From the U.S
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From the U.K.
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Those Fribourg & Treyer cigs must be top notch! They source some of the best leaf ? on this planet ?
 
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