Dunhill - Standard Mixture Medium pipe tobacco reviews

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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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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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pipinNfishin	05/04/2008	Medium to Strong	None detected	Medium to Full	Strong
Update (5/4/08): Dunhill's Standard Mixture Medium is currently available, but the distribution is spotty. I cannot obtain tin's consistently through my brick and mortar locations. Dunhill's Standard Mixture Medium was and is currently my standard English blend. Sadly, this blend has been discontinued. The availability of this blend is infinite. I find the blending of the tobacco is balanced. None the various tobaccos in the blend dominate the flavor. SMM is smooth and full on the tongue. However, it still must be smoked slowly. I have on occasions, smoked to fast. The result was slight tongue burn. Don't the let the smoothness, allow you get carried away. This is not a latakia, virginia, or oriental dominated blend. They're all in balance. That reason made it my everyday english blend. Since Dunhill stopped producing this blend, I sadly savor the remaining tin stash. There are tins available, but when that supply is exhausted. Standard Mixture Medium will be just in our memory.
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Jeremy	04/16/2008	Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
I just tried this blend for the first time - I am happily puffing away as I write this. I am unsure whether the tin I just purchased is pre-Orlik or not. I hope not. SMM smokes pretty cool, with very little bite. It has a moderate nicotine kick which is much appreciated. The taste is all natural, with a very well balanced mix of tobaccos (to my novice palate). It has a rich taste that is deep enough to keep me interested without becoming obnoxious or overbearing, and this could easily become my all-day choice if it continues to smoke this well throughout the tin. It stays lit easily and is burning down to a fine ash. Summary: While not as tasty as Early Morning Pipe for example, it is perfectly behaved, well balanced, smokes easily and does not become noxious towards the end of the bowl. It has adequate kick without making me high on nicotine. Sure to be one of my main blends.
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metalbone	04/14/2008	Mild	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
When I open the humidor, my hand seems to gravitate towards the tin of standard mixture. I will keep a small stock around.
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Mike Castello	01/27/2008	Medium	None detected	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is the Orlik Standard Mixture. It's a medium strength English mixture with a mild flavor and is an all day smoke. It's got a nice taste to it and the cut is a fine ribbon. Moisture level is fine, not too damp like many blends. It packs easily and lights without any difficulty. The flavor improves as you smoke down to the middle of the bowl. At the start it is overly reluctant. By the bottom of the bowl it is a bit sour. Over all it is a decent blend and I would not hesitate to give it a passing grade, but not a recommendation because the competition is too stiff. Stick with your faves and try this one out of curiosity. You might put it on your list of blends to buy. You can take mine I'll stay with the ones that brought me to the dance.
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Stacey	12/21/2007	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
Well, this review is hard to write. The tobacco is completely different than the others I've smoked. I suspect this must have a lot more Turkish in it than other blends I've tried. This lights and burns pretty easily. Every time I've reviewed on here I always thought the word "Full" was a curious rating for a tobacco, because I just never thought of any other tobacco in that way. This is the first. The word definitely comes to mind when smoking this one and for some reason fits my pre-conception of what an English blend ought to taste like perfectly. I really like the way it tastes consistently strong withhout having to concentrate much or puff like mad. My wife complained about the smell, but hey, she has to get over it because the garage is my domain!
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Fumatore	11/26/2007	Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
In my opinion this is one of the few Dunhill tobaccos that might approach the original in the transition from Murray to Orlik. I only wish I could say the same for 965, and the other wonderful Dunhill blends. I smoked quite a bit of this when it was blended by Murray and found it excellent. My latest smoked tin was 2 years old, but it was indeed from Orlik as it was stamped made in the EU. It wasn't awful. This was always an all day smoke for me and I found it perfectly balanced with just the right strength and complexity. What I have always loved and appreciated in this blend is that one doesn't get an overload of oriental leaf, which is so common in many English blends. In regards to the quality of leaf and smoking characteristics SMM reminded me of 965. The previous reviewer says SMM is discontinued, but I am unable to confirm that statement, and I hope not. I do however see that Standard Mixture Mild has indeed been discontinued.
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Matches	10/04/2007	Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant
This is a very mild version of some of my favorite latakia blends...Penzance or My Mixture 965. It is a pleasant change for me to have a latakia blend without it being overpowering. I found this relaxing and enjoyable.
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Holy Smoke	07/10/2007	Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
The Following review is based on a twenty-year-old tin. Upon opening the tin I was confronted with bone-dry tobacco, which luckily had not turned to dust. After a light spray of distilled water (Lourdes water was the closest thing to hand) and a few hours resting a sanitised Irish Flake tin, it was ready to smoke. First lighting: Very nice. I'm not a huge latakia fan but this was very soft on the tongue and drew me away from the real world with the velvety character of the rest of the smoke. Second lighting: Wow, there was a huge explosion of taste. A sweet nutty tone ran to the front, the latakia seemed to split into two distinct streams and salty earthy hand slapped me in the face. It was near indescribable (that's the best I can manage to conjure the joy of this smoke. In short the firmaments of the room strained and the seraphs sang out, as the house was filled with smoke [Isaiah 6 in tobacco form!]). Sheer and utter bliss. This tobacco is exceptional when it reaches its twenties. I shall be going out and buying a crate of the stuff at the weekend and hope that I live long enough to enjoy it at its best.
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