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<blockquote data-quote="sisyphus" data-source="post: 334761" data-attributes="member: 2514"><p>these products are going to vary from year to year just like wines and whiskeys do. It's exactly the reason blended whiskeys originated in Scotland, to try to make a consistent flavor that you could return to again and again. </p><p></p><p>I think with tobaccos that undergo a process to become what they are, like FVF, BBF, the various ropes and Germain Brown Flake etc, it's easier to hit that target because the process itself is responsible for a lot of that flavor. Take a tobacco like MVF, Opening Night or F&T Blackjack, and I think astute palates would detect differences from batches made using different crops. I certainly can tell a difference between Blackjack tins of different vintage in my cellar.</p><p></p><p>So of course this difference is going to be even more dramatic when labels change manufacturers. The new Capstan is not the old Capstan, or Balkan Sobranie, or the Dunhill blends. Some of these aren't as good as they used to be, some of them are just as good on their own merits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sisyphus, post: 334761, member: 2514"] these products are going to vary from year to year just like wines and whiskeys do. It's exactly the reason blended whiskeys originated in Scotland, to try to make a consistent flavor that you could return to again and again. I think with tobaccos that undergo a process to become what they are, like FVF, BBF, the various ropes and Germain Brown Flake etc, it's easier to hit that target because the process itself is responsible for a lot of that flavor. Take a tobacco like MVF, Opening Night or F&T Blackjack, and I think astute palates would detect differences from batches made using different crops. I certainly can tell a difference between Blackjack tins of different vintage in my cellar. So of course this difference is going to be even more dramatic when labels change manufacturers. The new Capstan is not the old Capstan, or Balkan Sobranie, or the Dunhill blends. Some of these aren't as good as they used to be, some of them are just as good on their own merits. [/QUOTE]
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