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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| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 04, 2016 | Extremely Mild | None Detected | Extremely Mild (Flat) | Unnoticeable |
I simply cannot understand how anyone reviews this tobacco as favorable . This has totally nothing similar to the original Ye Olde Signe except the name . It consists only of the tasteless Scandanavian Virginias which have little age and no flavor at all . This tobacco simply has little character. They use these same Virginias in all of their Virginia mixtures and they are simply flat . Period . The original Ye Olde used matured Virginias that jumped off the match . It had a tea like quality that was always a treat . It seems difficult to get any taste out of this tobacco.The fact that they own the Dunhill name should not allow them to endow a tobacco with a famous name unless it , in some way , resembles it's namesake . I understand that the re-issues cannot ever be the same as the original . They should , however , be at least in the spirit of that blend .
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Jan 01, 2017 | Medium | Very Mild | Medium | Tolerable |
A newly popped tin of Ye Olde Signe redux is filled with “perfect moisture”, gold to medium-brown ribbons that smell like old, dry yard trimmings and bulk wheat. The marketers claim it also smells like tea, and I guess I get that, too, though it’s not fragrant tea. It handles, loads, and lights OK, then it goes downhill from there, kind of scruffy and stuffy, muddled and blunt, dust bunny dry, with smoldering weed scents and flavors, along with some intermittent spices. For me, it’s dry to the point of parching if I’m not careful, just plain unpleasant, and now I wonder if this is the same VA they use in the newest version of Nightcap. If so, that would explain a lot. Yes, YOS tastes like VA, and YMMV, of course; but by now you can see where I’m going with this. Setting aside the parching, strength is just about medium. Tastes are about medium. Room note is tolerable. Aftertaste is not bad, +/- a generic VA, rather sweeter than the smoke.
I worked with this for some time before I gave up on it. With all the great VAs available today, including the likes of Dunhill’s own Flake, I ‘m stumped by this putative Ye Olde Signe redux. I’ve no desire to smoke it, and no reason to recommend it.
I worked with this for some time before I gave up on it. With all the great VAs available today, including the likes of Dunhill’s own Flake, I ‘m stumped by this putative Ye Olde Signe redux. I’ve no desire to smoke it, and no reason to recommend it.
Pipe Used:
various briars
Age When Smoked:
from tin and jar
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Oct 26, 2018 | Strong | None Detected | Full | Tolerable to Strong |
I thought I was a veteran smoker until I tried this tobacco.Several times. Found it to smoke bitter.The nicotine component is not the issue.Royal Yacht that I smoked a tin of two years ago was FAR better.I think this could use some aging,say two to five years.So,that is what I am doing.I’ll give it a chance.Maybe it’s just me and the PH level in my mouth,but a newer tin of Standard Mixture Medium was bitter,also.
Pipe Used:
Ropp new/old stock billiard
PurchasedFrom:
Smokingpipes.con
Age When Smoked:
New,off the shelf
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jun 26, 2017 | Mild to Medium | Extremely Mild | Mild | Pleasant |
nothing at all to do with the original. I guess its an average sort of virginia blend. But is irritating that the Dunhill people think pipe smokers are morons. This is not at all like the original Ye Olde Signe , which was, it should be said, fantastic. The scandi tobacco group seems to use the same lightly stoved virginia in all their dunhill copies. And it must be said, these are rather boring virginia (a bit like stokkebye in fact, which has the virtue of being a price bargain). Its simply not the old Dunhill version.
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