Dunhill Mild Blend

From a tin marked 3-1998, this ready rubbed/ribbon cut is drab tan/brown in color with a hefty tin nose of pure tobacco with just the faintest whiff of perhaps honey. Came fairly dry. Needed a bit of rubbing out to load properly and then off to the races.

Ah, when Dunhill was "Dunhill"! I miss those days. Very nice pure virginia tobacco taste, of the African variety. Mild in taste but fairly potent in nicotine, although not head-swimmingly so. This exhibited some mild tartness and a fair bit of earth but it wasn't deep in flavor. This reminded me a bit of Gold Block but with a bit more machismo. This was also sweeter, with the addition of the red cavendish and the smidge of bright Virginias, but not overly sweet. It was quite well balanced and enjoyable, although not something to stock up on, particularly at the price I paid. It's sort of a "leveling" tobacco for me... something to smoke that won't overwhelm my senses but that has good, if light, flavor. So this is recommended as a tobacco to smoke, but for the money, I'd advise you to look elsewhere. Nothing really stood out here to make this something to mortgage the farm to find.

I have been spreading out my remaining tins of Dunhill Mild Blend for the past few years and given the price some are getting on auction sites, I think it’s worth a comment or two. The age of the Virginias, along with Red Cavendish has made this blend quite sweet. Image an aged tin C&D’s Kajun Kake, minus the Perique and you have Mild Blend as they share similar components and similar flavor. Like many of the older Dunhill blends, the tobacco is of high quality. It is ready to smoke right out of the tin. The ribbon cut is on the thicker side with some broken flake like many of the Murray produced blends so it burns at a slow rate making it easy to sip. There is no bite, and contrary to the name, I would say it is on the medium side in the nic department. If you like an extra sweet Virginia, this is worth a trip down memory lane.

This is a new favorite of mine! Great Dunhill presentation. The aroma is rather neutral tobacco smoke ? no complaints from my wife. The tase? I don?t know. It reminds me of some davidoff cigars, some kind of grassy notes. It must be the slightest casing, but it remains on the background. Weird. The Mild in Mild blend is indeed mild on the palate, meaning no extreme tastes. You could smoke this one all day without tiring the taste buds. But quite nicely, it packs some punch. When you?re not in the mood for latakia, not for cavendish or aromatics,but you want a smoke of character and you can?t quite decide WHAT you?re going to smoke this time, try mild blend.

October-2003. Dunhill Mild Blend is exactly that 'mild' Good for new comer's to pipe smoking,or someone who want's to step away from sweet tooth heavily cased Aromatic tobacco's.Can be easily used as an all day smoke.