monbla256
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I cannot say that I have tried ALL the various "Match" blends now being produced I have tried several which portend to be a "match" for two of the blend/mixtures I used to smoke regularly back in the '70s/'80s, 965 and 759. A word about how I and many others of that time smoked first. The concept of "aging" tobacco blend/mixtures really was not anywhere near what it is today and I like so many of my fellow pipe smokers smoked and liked our tobacco "fresh" rather than "old". When one takes either of these two blend/mixtures specifically and let's them sit for 20/30 years, the resulting blend/mixture is NOT what it was when they were "fresh" out of the tin back then. Being heavily Va based, they tend to mellow and "marry" many of the distinctive nuances they had when "fresh". A recently opened tin of McConnal, Murray, earlier Dunhill 965 is NOT what it was back when it was "fresh" though it does still have many of the aspects of the blend as made then. That certainly is not the case with the few 759 matches around. The "match" blenders do a fine job of replicating the blend/mixture they are working from NOW, but from the memory and standpoint of one who smoked a LOT of these blend/mixtures "back in the day" they have a way to go !! :twisted: So if one want's smoke "what it was like" back in the day, ya need to invent a time machine !! :twisted: These are merely some ramblings from one of "those" old codgers :twisted: :twisted: