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Thoughts on low aged Tobacco and Pricing???
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<blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 596071" data-attributes="member: 1211"><p>Right on. When blenders end their experiments, they conclude because they arrived at their goal and/or what they liked. Right in that moment. Afterall, that's the only thing anyone can guarantee and know for certain. In other words, it's ready to smoke as-is. It might not be "better" with age, just different. I think that is the other inadvertent advantage of hitting the big sales each ear, having jars from 2015, jars from 2016, jars from 2017, and so on. Don't wait until they all hit the same age to try them. Try them at the different stages. You might prefer them brand new. You might prefer the 2 year old to the 5 year old. Heck, even 6 months used to greatly diminish McClelland #2015 for me. That quickly, and all the wonderful hay and grassy notes were pretty much gone. Don't get sucked into, or stuck with, the mindset that age = better. I have some 5 or 6 year old Night Train that went tangy (didn't go rancid or bad, just went in that direction as it aged), and at 3-4 years, it was superbly and richly dark fruity, datey, figgy, pruney. I won't be going back to it for another year, hoping it will age out of that tangyness. *it helps to split your poundage into several jars so you can do this. I'm at the broken record point, so I'll try to stop typing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zeno Marx, post: 596071, member: 1211"] Right on. When blenders end their experiments, they conclude because they arrived at their goal and/or what they liked. Right in that moment. Afterall, that's the only thing anyone can guarantee and know for certain. In other words, it's ready to smoke as-is. It might not be "better" with age, just different. I think that is the other inadvertent advantage of hitting the big sales each ear, having jars from 2015, jars from 2016, jars from 2017, and so on. Don't wait until they all hit the same age to try them. Try them at the different stages. You might prefer them brand new. You might prefer the 2 year old to the 5 year old. Heck, even 6 months used to greatly diminish McClelland #2015 for me. That quickly, and all the wonderful hay and grassy notes were pretty much gone. Don't get sucked into, or stuck with, the mindset that age = better. I have some 5 or 6 year old Night Train that went tangy (didn't go rancid or bad, just went in that direction as it aged), and at 3-4 years, it was superbly and richly dark fruity, datey, figgy, pruney. I won't be going back to it for another year, hoping it will age out of that tangyness. *it helps to split your poundage into several jars so you can do this. I'm at the broken record point, so I'll try to stop typing. [/QUOTE]
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