Japan Tobacco Momoyama

One of the nice things about attending the pipe club I go to is that I get to try old and or discontinued blends. This is one of them. This blend as stated was produced by Japan Tobacco Inc. Not sure of the year manufactured or the year this was stopped being produced until Mac Baren took over. I smoked 4 bowls of this and the tin note was a slight liqueur smell? Kind of hard for me to tell other than it was a sweet fragrance. This is a mild aromatic. The second and subsequent bowls I smoked seem to taste better possibly due to other tobacco being smoked in the pipe previously. It tasted okay but for the life of me I cannot place this in any particular category. Good tobacco but for me I would somewhat recommend this one and since it is no longer in production it probably is a moot point. From the Oxford Living Dictionary, “Momoyama, adjective, Attributive, designating a period in Japanese history from 1568 to 1600, characterized by political unification and great magnificence and ostentation, or the cultural artefacts of this period. Origin, 1920s; earliest use found in Pacific Affairs. From Momoyama, the name of a hill near Fushimi, south of Kyoto (Japanese Momoyama, lit. ‘Peach Mountain’), and of a castle built there by the daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi during this period, used attributively after Japanese Momoyama-jidai Momoyama age, period.”