Peterson My Mixture 965

Everyone has different tastes...and that's what makes the world go 'round.

To make this brief, I can't smoke this blend without it biting my tongue. The flavor is good but it's a hot blend. In the 80's it bit me, in the 90's it bit me and the last bowl I smoked of it (2003) will be the last ever.

This one gets my vote of "most overrated tobacco of all time", hands down.

To each his own, eh?

I'm not a big fan of Latakia blends. Although this does not jump out of the tin with the heaviness I've come to expect from Latakias. I found this to be pleasant and mild to smoke.

Unforftunately, I found nothing compelling to keep me with this blend. The flavor was nothing spectacular and with other more interesting blends around, even in the Dunhill line, I don't see myself buying it again.

Leather. Like an old leather strop. Or maybe bbq sauce. Depends on which you're thinking about when you open the tin. Maybe like leather and bbq had a baby named BBleather (get it? baby leather? never mind, only the uber bright can laugh at it). Oh and there's cream. It's hard to explain how cream is there with BBleather, but it definitely is. Maybe BBleather is having a bath in cream. Yeah, that's it.

The smoke is a tad warm and fairly creamy.

Taste reminds one of the leather more than anything else, I guess. Extremely one dimensional. Too simple. Like getting a bag of m&ms and finding no chocolate beneath the candy coating; which is not to say that this tobacco is sweet--just that it offers sort of a "surfacey" flavor.

It's not terrible, but I just don't think it's worth spending money on.

Positives: Smokes cool, burns exceptionally well, very creamy, is a two star tobacco if smoked in the morning.

Negatives: There is little to no flavor. The latakia and cavendish are only slightly detectable in fleeting moments. If this mixture is smoked first thing in the morning then it is easier for your taste buds to pick up the flavors, but it is still not enough to keep your attention. To be frank I got bored smoking this, because it lacked flavor so badly, and about half way through the tin I tossed it all out. It just wasn't worth it.

with 31 years experience of pipe smoking i find this blend is not the same as the original when produced by dunhill.the whole smoke seems to be bland,i must say that dunhill london mixture is a far better smoke,more sharper and taste.another blend i find much better than this is erinmore balkan mixture,well worth a try.also when i was in london called into the dunhill shop and spoke to marc burrows who used to do the hand blends.he told me that 965 was the nearest you would get to the old babys bottom blend.i will not buy this anymore.

I totally agree with the last review. Been smoking 965 for a long time. Liked the original the best, Murray's did a good job, but this latest recipe is not satisfying at all. It's not a terrible tobacco, it's just not 965. Lucky I stashed away two pounds and will be sad when it's gone.

I was really looking forward to this one; bought two tins after reading the reviews. Just couldn't enjoy this one. Maybe it was the latikia? Too much after taste and too much of a pungent bite.

I used to shy away from MM965 because I preferred the milder strength and tang of Early Morning Pipe. Back then, MM965 was a strong tobacco to me. But this new 965 is in my opinion milder than the old EMP, both flavor-wise and strength-wise. MM965 used to be a full flavored tobacco, toasty, with a sincere latakia hit and some creamy-sweet Macedonian leaf, but, alas, this new version hits my palate and nose with brown cavendish and an almost menthol note that remind me almost of cigarettes. If you thought the old MM965 was a bit too strong and you're looking for a fairly mild English blend and don't mind the cavendish, this might be worth a whirl.

I am also a 965 fan -- it has been my daily smoke for years. I purchased it most often in bulk, only occasionally in the tin, although I admit there was some difference and preferred the tin.

Like all of you, I was despondent when I learned of the demise of this line.

I sought and bought a few pounds after hearing the news, but was skunked. Apparently, "they" were cleaning the bins out, and it didn't taste like my 965. I know --- we've all heard this before from old folks like me, but this was NOT my tobacco. It was missing a large component. I suppose that, due to age and derailing physical systems, particularly taste, my critique should be heavily disclaimerized. (We all should keep the "disclaimerize" button close to hand!) But, hey -- I know my pipes, and my tobacco, and this weren't it!

On a whim (read: trying to get my total up to a hundred bux so I wouldn't have to pay shipping) I bought four ounces of the Altadis substitute. Surprise!!! It is, as the saying has it, up in smoke. Two days to burn up 4 oz. Tasted like 965. Smelled like 965. Okay -- not quite on the money, sure, but WAAAAYYYY closer than the 'real' stuff I have in the cellar.

So, until sanity returns and we can find this again, give the Altadis substitute a try.

Only problem with them is that, by the time you read this and decide to gamble a few bux, the blend will change and it'll taste utterly different, and you'll wish I'd hit the "disclaimerize" button mentioned above a little more frequently. Hope you Altadis execs are reading this.

*** update some months later. The prophecy in the last review was right -- puchased a pound later and it tasted nothing like the first batch I bought. Other approximations have also presented varying and undependable success. Guess it's gone... (sigh)