Dunhill - Standard Mixture Medium pipe tobacco reviews

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Claudius Stradivarius	07/24/2010	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Tolerable to Strong
Murray's production. Very rich and tasty, without being strong. A true delight.
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Tee-dub	06/26/2010	Medium	None detected	Full	Pleasant
This is an Orlik tin which reads simply 'Standad Mixture' on the cheap adhesive label. Alas, no quaint painted tin, but really who cares? From other reviews, I sort of expected to be underwhelmed by a tobacco unlikely to impress or offend. Truth to tell, this was a very pleasant surprise. It sort of snuck up on me. The more I smoke it, the better I like it. I can find nothing negative to say about it, apart from the above-mentioned cheap sticker label. Nothing about it stands out, but the overall experience is first-rate. Well balanced, well behaved and delicious.
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Susanna Hoffs	06/10/2010	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Tolerable
Again not smoked this since 2004. From what I remember, the Latakia took a back seat, and it was just an above average strength medium to full flavoured tobacco. Really can't understand the fuss with Dunhill. Personally, and if we're honest, it's a name thing. That said, I didn't get to sample Nightcap, or MM 965. So I maybe blowing out of my hoop, and have missed a real treat here. Saying that though I'm sure there are blends out there that equal/surpass the Dunhill line Again...RIP Dunhill.
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Pipesrevisited	04/03/2010	Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
Just opened a Murray era tin, too moist to smoke without drying a bit first. Taste: honest tobacco, but with a slight heaviness i don't like. I love Standard Mixture Mellow/Mild, but Medium after having tried several tins of Murray and Orlik I won't buy again.
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ivycap	04/01/2010	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Tolerable
I barely tasted the latakia, but this is a very well rounded English blend anyway and tastes wonderful. Nutty, complex, meaty, with a hint of spice.
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Virginia lover	02/11/2010	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Tolerable to Strong
EU tin. High quality English. The Latakia dominates but the Oriental and Virginia provide the finishing touch. This tobacco taste grows on you. Good for an all day English mixture.
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SteelCowboy	02/10/2010	Medium to Strong	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
Standard Medium has the typical Dunhill signature taste and it never bores me. However with that said it is not as complex as some other English blends and lacks the slight sweetness of 965. It is very balanced without any particular dominate player. Beware that this can be quite strong in the nicotine department. Hopefully Dunhill will reappear soon as it would be a crime to see these blends gone forever.
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SirLoirn	01/28/2010	Strong	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
Tin: SMM is two-thirds light-brown and tan, some dark brown-black, with flecks of greyish brown. It is the standard short and long, thin ribbon cut. Maybe my perception changed, but the color spectrum seemed to change by the time the tin was finished in one week. It had changed to an even mixture of light tan, brown, and dark tobaccos. It has a very faint, difficult to detect, fruity and smoky Latakia aroma. Packing & Lighting: It packs easily. The smoke could be hot, depending on how it is packed. The bowl was hot. SMM lit easily and stayed lit, with one relight. Taste & Aroma: SMM is not strong or robust in taste or aroma. It is not sweet, compared to other VA-based tobacco and is no Latakia blast. Although it is an English blend, SMM is not sour or overly smoky. No one tobacco dominates. The VA's are detectable, contributing to a vaguely toasty, nutty, and smoky Latakia taste. In the first bowl, moisture does not build up, but it does with multiple bowls. Depending on how it is packed and smoked, it might leave a small, dry dottle under a fine white-grey ash and only the slightest bit of moisture in the heel. Nicotine: By the end of a bowl, it is moderately heady. The only aspect which might be said to make its presence known, but unwanted, is Nic O'Teen. I do not prefer, cannot handle, a heady tobacco(The original My Mixture 965 was too heady in this regard). By the time I had finished with the tin, I had come to bemoan the anticipated nicotine effect at bowl's end-like looking down a dark alley knowing Nic O'Teen lurked at the other end. Room Note: Being not unpleasant, it has a light smell of wet hay. Summation: It is a daily smoke, but not for all day long.
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colt25314	11/22/2009	Strong	None detected	Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
A tue English blend in every sense of the term. What can I add other than it is another epic blend that is, sadly, no more. BAT ownes the rights to Dunhill tobaccos (cigarette & pipe). BAT has decided, so it is said, to concentrate on the cancer sticks and do nothing with the Dunhill pipe tobaccos. Please, Please, PLEASE join me and contact British American Tobaco (BAT) and demand that they either manufacture all of Dunhill Pipe Tobaccos or sell the rights to someone who will. It is insanity to let this and other Dunhill pipe tobacco blends die out. Shame on you BAT!!!!
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Thorre	08/22/2009	Medium to Strong	None detected	Medium to Full	Tolerable
This blend will always have a special place in my heart. When I started pipe smoking, like most beginners, I began with the cheap aros. Cherry, and vanilla, and ect. I got tired of those quickly. I went into a B&M in LA and asked for a tobacco that would be rich, and taste more like real tobacco. The person working there handed me a tin of SMM. I opened the tin, and it was love at first smell. When smoked, it was even better. Very rich, and exotic. More like the cigars I was used to smoking. From this blend, I started smoking the other Dunhills, and on and on. This is, or was a great newbe English. I would love having some now.
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Alguhan	08/04/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
If you already have smoked a tin of MIX 965, this one will not be one of your favorites. It is not that much smooth, and not that much tasty. The latakia addition may overwhelm a bit here if you are not a fan of it. I prefer to smoke it occasionally, rare than the 965. After all this is a classic tobacco of a very well known brand. A must try.
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viscfab	07/25/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
The name describes it perfectly. A very well blended , balanced and tasty English blend. Not overpowering, very tasty and rewarding. I still preffer myMIX 965 but this is a good rotation.
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Requiem	07/07/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Well... this is standard and medium, indeed. It can very well serve as a term of comparision against other english blends. It's a nice all day smoke, sturdy, maybe a little monotonous for some folks. Top virginias in there, no cavendish, enough tasty orientals, good cyprian latakia. White/gray ashes. Don´t expect a sweet creamy smoke, neither a spicy one... just a standard medium, very well balanced, classic english :) I like it and don´t find it boring. (note: my tins are labelled simply as "Dunhill Standard Mixture" - no "medium" reference)
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DK	05/30/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Well, this is the last of my aged Dunhill Murray-era tins. As is my custom, I smoked this with varying degrees of moisture content... moist straight out of the tin, partially dried and extremely dry. Unlike McClellands Latakia Flake, this one did best straight out of the tin. That's not surprising for a latakia blend. There's nothing really wrong with this one... ok, it'll never be the classic that 965 is, but it obviously pleases a lot of smokers. I just prefer more body and complexity in my bowl. This one starts off ok, is ok in the middle and ends ok. I should state that that phenomenon speaks of high quality to me, but it just isn't my cup of tea. I found this one boring, and I wish I had seen the review below by the 30 year smoker of this stuff, as I would have passed on it and sent it to him. It's gotta suck to wake up one day and find your favorite tobacco no longer available. My hope is that an American distributor picks up Dunhill, as I too have a stake... but in 965 and Elizabethan.
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BriarPatch	04/11/2009	Medium to Strong	None detected	Full	Tolerable
I have been smoking Dunhill Standard Mixture Medium for near-on 30 years, at least 3 times daily, and I believe that it has no equal anywhere on earth. But it is gone now, and so I begin a quest for my Holy Grail: A substitute to replace the standard on which all English tobaccos are based. Having smoked in the neighborhood of 1400 tins of the stuff, I believe I might be able to provide some insight. To this end I have ordered in 40+ different varieties of English / Balkan Types, including all of the usual suspects such as Squadron Leader, Penzance, Margate, et al, as well as contacting G.L. Pease & Cornell & Diehl and having them each send 5 blends that they deem the closest to my treasured SMM. Over the next few months I'll be going through all of them and posting results under it's own blend page (click on Briarpatch under By Reviewer to see all reviews), but when I am finished I'll sumize the results here in the hope of benefiting someone else in similar straights. When SMM was discontinued I had no idea where to turn, and I eventually ended up here. Perhaps others will as well. Update 7/09: The winner is Samuel Gawith! The short of it is, Samuel Gawith's Skiff Mixture is the closest. But what really comes close is mixing up about 60% Skiff and 40% Full Virginia Flake. Skiff lacks the richness of SMM, which FFV has in spades. Mixed together it makes for a very nice full & rich smoke. The down- side is all the mixing and the lugging of two tins around... In the evening after dinner a mixture of Skiff and Brown Rope No.4 is extremely enjoyable!
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Peter Zorg	03/25/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant
This tobacco is really one of its kind. I love it, and get back to it every once in a while. Although not an all day tobacco for me, it is one of my preferred. I would also add that comparing side by side the Orlik and the older version, I feel this Dunhill is the nearest to the original, compared to others (EMP, 965). The orientals are very present, and it is still a real English mixture. A good introduction to English tobaccos and a great classic. UPDATE: I am finishing one tin I bought recently. Orientals far in the background. Quality is really not improving with time !
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BBlevins	01/26/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
My tin of this no longer produced classic is of the Murray's era and has been aging for no less than 10 years. I had purchased this tobacco with the intent of selling it but said, "Screw it. I'm going to try some." This was my first experience with this particular blend. Upon popping the tin, the pungent aroma of Latakia wafted up beyond the age stained accordion paper. The moisture level was perfect and I loaded a large meerschaum with the contents in anticipation. Lighting was easy. The first 1/4 of the bowl was smooth and tasted of Latakia and Virginia. As the bowl progressed, the orientals begam to make itself apparent, blending with the other ingredients without making it's presence too strong. Every now and then, the sweetness of the Virginia would make itself known. The combination of flavors reminded me somewhat of Aperitif, but only a bit. By mid bowl, the orientals became more pronounced, lending a buttery element to the flavor. The Latakia began to take a seat backstage. From then on, the smoke remains pretty much the same and burned to a white ash with no goopiness left behind. This blend would run second behind my favorite, Aperitif, but it's deserving of a solid three stars.
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Fly ticky	01/10/2009	Medium	None detected	Full	Pleasant
OK alright take it easy baby make it last all night. Well maybe not that good but daddy likes.Very good english blend.From what I am reading its to be discontinued what shame.Well I better stop ranting and get back to my pipe. see ya.
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cecilianinnc	09/10/2008	Medium	None detected	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Tolerable
This was really bland. I didn't get any flavor at all. It smelled like shoe polish in the tin, and tasted like I would imagine shoe polish would taste. I've tried other english blends like this, and comparatively, this was just weak. Not at all what I was looking for.
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BriarChef	07/20/2008	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Not a wimpy mixture by any means, but in my opinion a bit of a lightweight. The individual ingredients seem to be off balance to my palate, but this may change with some age, especially the Latakia-Virginia interplay. The tobacco quality is very high and it is blended with care. While it doesn't push my buttons, I can easily see why it has legions of fans. It is good tobacco and I would recommend to anyone looking for that easy smoking lighter English mixture
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