Dunhill Ye Olde Signe (Re-release)
(2.79)
Notes: Ye Olde Signe is a richly fermented, straight Virginia in a fine ribbon cut. The process used to produce the tobacco creates a natural tea-like tin aroma and results in a natural-tasting tobacco that has a mellow sweetness and subtle aroma. In spite of the gentle flavor, this is a very robust blend best enjoyed after a meal. See for yourself why so many longtime Dunhill fans consider this one of their very finest.
Details
| Brand | Dunhill |
| Blended By | |
| Manufactured By | |
| Blend Type | Straight Virginia |
| Contents | Virginia |
| Flavoring | |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | 50 grams tin |
| Country | Denmark |
| Production | No longer in production |
Profile
Strength
Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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2.79 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 11 - 14 of 14 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2019 | Medium | None Detected | Mild to Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
I remember sampling a bowl of this at my last meeting with the local pipe club, and bought a tin, remember the fruity sour-sweetness and slightly spicy after taste. A sweet tin aroma.
However, as I opened my tin, I found the aroma to be rather dull, but with some incensiness and sweetness. The tobacco was dry as paper. Granted, this might have been the difference from the original and the reissue, or just an unusual batch.
The mild flavour of this no-more-than medium bodied smoke retained some incense, but at the ashy side of the spectrum. Somewhat similar to Royal Yacht, but also quite different. However, also some of the marzipan sweetness I’m so fond, which also remained on the tongue post-smoke, is present in the smoke. Moisture has the leaves did not vastly improve of these qualities, but made the smoke last longer in the bowl.
Despite all this, it is well-suited after a meal. It was not Ye Olde Signe I was looking for (or wrongly remembered), and though somewhat of a letdown, a decent smoke. I found it smoked best in a small, bent briar.
However, as I opened my tin, I found the aroma to be rather dull, but with some incensiness and sweetness. The tobacco was dry as paper. Granted, this might have been the difference from the original and the reissue, or just an unusual batch.
The mild flavour of this no-more-than medium bodied smoke retained some incense, but at the ashy side of the spectrum. Somewhat similar to Royal Yacht, but also quite different. However, also some of the marzipan sweetness I’m so fond, which also remained on the tongue post-smoke, is present in the smoke. Moisture has the leaves did not vastly improve of these qualities, but made the smoke last longer in the bowl.
Despite all this, it is well-suited after a meal. It was not Ye Olde Signe I was looking for (or wrongly remembered), and though somewhat of a letdown, a decent smoke. I found it smoked best in a small, bent briar.
Pipe Used:
Norrøna Lillehammer 1212
PurchasedFrom:
Augusto Cigar Oslo
Age When Smoked:
From the tin
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Aug 03, 2022 | Very Strong | Very Mild | Mild | Tolerable |
Oh my...this blend is pretty strong. It always shock me how this straight Virginia can be so strong. Flavor is natural with some hints of tea-like aroma. I cannot enjoy it. My tin goes to the friend of mine. He will enjoy it better. 🙂
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 07, 2023 | Medium to Strong | Extremely Mild | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
First tin notes (beginning of the tin): Tin note is fruity, citrusy, sweet, but lately it was toned down a lot and all I get is some hay notes and grass. Even some tea.
Aspect: The tobacco is a perfectly cut ribbon, darker in aspect (maybe the age is a factor for this too, being 6 years old) having a brownish color with some dark gold. Excellent moisture!
First taste notes (beginning and middle of the tin): First notes are fruity, sugary and lemony. At first puffs I actually tasted grapes. After aprox. 15 minutes the sweetness starts to tone down, and begins to deliver a tea-like taste, like green tea with lemon and just a biiit of sweetness. Then there’s hay and grass. It is somewhere in the middle of sweet and sour. Someone here said it has malt taste, and I agree with that.
So we have all these notes, but they are mild to medium. I find this virginia to be more on the hay/grassy side than on the sweet side. Not something spectacular, honestly, but not bad either. It’s a good smoke, but not something I would take with me to meditate.
Second tin notes (towards the end of the tin): Licorice, green and/or black tea, a bit citrusy (lemon), dark fruit.
Second taste notes (towards the end of the tin): Yes, I am not mad. I’ve had the deep impression that this has burley in it. Why? Not only because of the taste, but because of the physiological reactions that I get when I smoke certain burley tobaccos. First of all, when I smoke a strong burley, I get a sensation in the chest and neck, and hiccups. No other tobacco gives me this except strong burley. So, I’ve been reading the reviews here on TobaccoReviews and I’ve noticed that many people say it has burley or at least taste of burley. For me, it is quite clear that it has. I believe this is red virginia with some burley, but also a topping, or, if not, the production of this tobacco must have been complex to bring such flavors. We have nutty flavors, licorice, a bit of spice, green tea or black tea, earthy, cigar, wood, a bit of fig and a bit of citrus (lemon). As you can see, there’s little taste of natural virginia that I’m describing here. I’m either going crazy or this is something else than what they are presenting.
Room note is pleasant, again with some notes of hay and tea.
Burns excellent at a medium pace, no need for relights, does’t get hot if smoked well and doesn’t bite. Delivers a lot of thick smoke, and provides a pleasant natural room note. What a peculiar blend! So ‘chameleonic’, so changeable, so confusing. Definitely not what I was expecting.
Aspect: The tobacco is a perfectly cut ribbon, darker in aspect (maybe the age is a factor for this too, being 6 years old) having a brownish color with some dark gold. Excellent moisture!
First taste notes (beginning and middle of the tin): First notes are fruity, sugary and lemony. At first puffs I actually tasted grapes. After aprox. 15 minutes the sweetness starts to tone down, and begins to deliver a tea-like taste, like green tea with lemon and just a biiit of sweetness. Then there’s hay and grass. It is somewhere in the middle of sweet and sour. Someone here said it has malt taste, and I agree with that.
So we have all these notes, but they are mild to medium. I find this virginia to be more on the hay/grassy side than on the sweet side. Not something spectacular, honestly, but not bad either. It’s a good smoke, but not something I would take with me to meditate.
Second tin notes (towards the end of the tin): Licorice, green and/or black tea, a bit citrusy (lemon), dark fruit.
Second taste notes (towards the end of the tin): Yes, I am not mad. I’ve had the deep impression that this has burley in it. Why? Not only because of the taste, but because of the physiological reactions that I get when I smoke certain burley tobaccos. First of all, when I smoke a strong burley, I get a sensation in the chest and neck, and hiccups. No other tobacco gives me this except strong burley. So, I’ve been reading the reviews here on TobaccoReviews and I’ve noticed that many people say it has burley or at least taste of burley. For me, it is quite clear that it has. I believe this is red virginia with some burley, but also a topping, or, if not, the production of this tobacco must have been complex to bring such flavors. We have nutty flavors, licorice, a bit of spice, green tea or black tea, earthy, cigar, wood, a bit of fig and a bit of citrus (lemon). As you can see, there’s little taste of natural virginia that I’m describing here. I’m either going crazy or this is something else than what they are presenting.
Room note is pleasant, again with some notes of hay and tea.
Burns excellent at a medium pace, no need for relights, does’t get hot if smoked well and doesn’t bite. Delivers a lot of thick smoke, and provides a pleasant natural room note. What a peculiar blend! So ‘chameleonic’, so changeable, so confusing. Definitely not what I was expecting.
Age When Smoked:
6 years
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Oct 12, 2021 | Medium | None Detected | Medium to Full | Pleasant to Tolerable |
I just purchased my first tin of Ye Ole Signe. Date code is September 2016, so it has a good 5 years of age. I purchased Ye Ole Signe based off a tin of Robert McConnell Shakespeare (formerly The Old Sign) I had a couple of years ago. I never did a review on it but I know I wasn't a fan of it. This won't be a direct comparison but I will mention a thing or two about Shakespeare.
The aroma from the tin is plumb/stewed fruit but I did fade away after a few minutes. Looking at the tobacco, it's mostly dark and light brown ribbons with a few faded yellow ribbons. 5 years of age does show well in the tin due to a light sugar crystal sheen. Moisture is a little on the dry side but not bad.
From beginning to end, ye ole signe is very consistent is the dody building up the further down the bowl it goes. Flavor wise its nutty, dark, and very bready with hardly no sweetness at all. It does get a little harsh and more robust as the bowl goes down.
Overall this isn't a very exciting Virginia blend. Shakespeare does have more sweetness of YOS but has a obvious topping that kind of ruins it. YOS is pretty plain. I find Elizabethan Mixture much more flavorful, sweeter, and smoother then YOS. I can see why YOS didn't make the cut under the Peterson name. Not bad but not great.
The aroma from the tin is plumb/stewed fruit but I did fade away after a few minutes. Looking at the tobacco, it's mostly dark and light brown ribbons with a few faded yellow ribbons. 5 years of age does show well in the tin due to a light sugar crystal sheen. Moisture is a little on the dry side but not bad.
From beginning to end, ye ole signe is very consistent is the dody building up the further down the bowl it goes. Flavor wise its nutty, dark, and very bready with hardly no sweetness at all. It does get a little harsh and more robust as the bowl goes down.
Overall this isn't a very exciting Virginia blend. Shakespeare does have more sweetness of YOS but has a obvious topping that kind of ruins it. YOS is pretty plain. I find Elizabethan Mixture much more flavorful, sweeter, and smoother then YOS. I can see why YOS didn't make the cut under the Peterson name. Not bad but not great.
Age When Smoked:
5 years
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