Dunhill Three Year Matured Virginia

Dunhill Three Year Matured Virginia is an excellent Dunhill tobacco. I am smoking a 2019 purchased fresh tin from Smoking Pipes , SC USA ; smoked fresh from the tin . To my palate this is an excellent natural matured red Virginia , fine ribbon cut , with typical Dunhill strong nicotine level. I smoke TYMV in large to extra large James Upshall and Tilshead bowls where the fine ribbon cut burns consistently well and provides an outstanding matured red Virginia experience. There may be other Virginias and Oriental tobaccos in the mixture , but when I pick TYMV up I pick it up as a matured red Virginia , with an excellent deep mature red Virginia flavor and excellent burn . Strong nicotine , smoke it under your favorite tree , you will be amazed. Highly recommended.

another very nice tobacco from Dunhill,the aroma in the tin is just lovely.burns well with no tongue bite,a nice tobacco to relax with after a hard day,room note is nice,well worth trying and i will be buying this again in the future for sure.

The tin that I am reviewing is a 1994 vintage. Not sure if this will help, given it's age and manufacture (Murry) no longer produces Dunhill blends. However, it might offer some comparison of newer tins.

Needless to say, this 100 gram tin with 16 years age was opened with anticipation reminiscent of opening a rare wine or old scotch. The tobacco was very dark to black in a riff or cigarette cut. It had a nice plum nose of well aged Virginia. It packed well and lit easily, producing a nice volume of sweet and mellow smoke. It did not bite nor was it ever harsh from top to bottom, producing a white ash. The flavors were only a little more subtle in the middle third of the smoke; otherwise it was very consistent from beginning to end. I could not detect any oriental leaf, just nicely aged Virginia leaf. A rare one I will reserve for special occasions

Just smoked a bowl of this now 21 year old blend. Just beautiful. A wonderful VA - sweet, spicy, mellow smoke. Great from to top to bottom. I need to get a tin of the newly minted to compare.

Here ends my search for an everyday, go-to Virginia. OK, even the tin descripion indicates that it's not a straight VA, but I'll not quibble about that. What I will do is load this very satifying blend into a small bowled Peterson and enjoy a rich, flavorful smoke. This is a dark, heady VA --- not light and sweet like 5100 but not quite as stout as Royal Yacht (my only other Dunhill regular). Some place the casing as berry-like and the tin description on this very site says "mixed fruit" but I myself can't taste anything fruity about it. Thumbs up to Dunhill/Murray on whatever this casing is, because it is pleasant and unique without overtaking the taste of the tobaccos themselves. Doesn't bite. May be a tad too strong for all day and does get a little unwieldy towards the very bottom of the bowl. For me, it's the perfect VA blend --- one or two bowls a day interspersed with my regular burley blends and flakes. The Murray's version of 3 Year Matured recently replaced Royal Yacht as my preferred tinned VA, and this review is based on the Murray's product. Recent reviews of other Orlik-produced Dunhill products have got me discouraged about my prospects for liking the Orlik version of 3 Year Matured. I'll post that review when I have tried some. Till then, 4 stars for 3 YMV!

In the tin: This is a mixture of mostly dark strands with just a strand or so of a lighter leaf. The aroma is sweet and generically fruity, but also smells of fermented Virginias.

Packing and Lighting: This packs easily and well and lights up easily and stays lit.

Taste: It may be laced with fruit essences but I don't taste much fruit, just the satisfying sweet/sour note of aged Virginias. Produces nice thick substantial smoke, very little steam as far as I can tell. Consistent throughout the bowl except that towards the end the smoke becomes richer and more flavorful.

For the aromatic smoker this would be something good to try if you're looking for something a little stronger and a little more complex. For Virginia smokers, don't be put off by the idea of flavoring. Flavored it is, but the bulk of the smoking experience is pure matured Virginia.

Don't think of this as virginia. Don't think of this as an oriental blend. Instead you should think of it as an incredibly strong aromatic.

It is wonderful! I like tobaccos with a strong nicotine kick, but alas, so many of them lack the civility needed to be smoked in public. Those that have impeccable public manners are as limp as overcooked pasta. This is the tobacco to choose if you want something that people around you will like and still satisfy you. When smoking this in a public place without fail someone will come up to me and tell me how wonderful it smells- it does have a magnificent aroma for the non-smoker. And for you, the smoker, you won't have to contend with that question that I get after smoking so many other aromatics: "Did I just smoke something?" No, you'll know that you did, your wobbly knees will speak volumes.

What this blend does have in common with virginias is that to really enjoy it you need to smoke it slowly. While it doesn't bite too badly because of the orientals in it, if you puff too hard you'll lose the remarkable flavor of this blend. Slow smoking will release a constant stream of berry flavor (raspberry/blackcurrant/whatever) into your mouth and into the room around you. It comes very close to tasting like it smells.

I realize that the dedicated Virginia smoker would probably find this far too heavily flavored for his tastes. I realize that the English smoker would find it far too sweet. But for those of us who have a palate that ranges far and wide, this is one tobacco that shouldn't be skipped.

My favorite of all time (as my user ID suggests I suppose) reviewing from memory and probably idolizing it like a high school girlfriend from 50 years ago but be it as it may. I am trembling to get my hands on the new Charatan version but may never get that in the US who knows. This is a tobacco as great as it is a little weird, not a typical aromatic and very well crafted, very high quality red Virginia, so smooth, elegant and simply delicious. Add to that a seizable amount of berry topping more than I would normally like but this one was also elegant, maybe a natural distillate of sorts, not chemical or fake tasting and does not pop in the smoke as much as it does in the tin. I smoked decades old tins that Chuck had sold me, I got all of the tins he found in then back and ended up with a good amount of the old Murray's. Those must have have been great but the later iteration made by Orlick I suppose for Dunhill were fine as well. This had to be carefully smoked but did not get too hot, never had a bite from it, it got more intense to the end of the bowl and maybe that is the only weakness of this well topped blend, the topping just concentrates of course. In any event, I tip my hat to this old girlfriend and lusting for the Charatan version.

I am having a really difficult time understanding why the reviews for this are so mixed. When I first opened a new release tin, it did legitimately seem like a tin of matured Virginia. After those early smokes, I considered it a solid 3 and a quarter stars. I've got quite a lot of these tins due to Dunhill's seemingly inevitable abandonment of it's beloved tobacco line. I mean honestly, I don't even know what else they sell. Maybe some cologne or perfume? Watches? Not sure. Anyway, back to it. Up until searching this product here, I had no idea it was flavored. That's how subtle the application is to my senses. Personally, I've always noticed that my tastes for different tobaccos changes and evolves over time drastically. A lot of tobaccos come and go in my rotation, dispite my want for some to stay amazing to me, they just don't. 3 year however, while not the most awesome tobacco I've smoked ever, has continued to maintain a lofty spot for me and has actually been climbing the ladder lately. That is very rare indeed. The last time I opened slightly lighter appearing Virginia in it and smelled amazing to me. I didn't know it had orientals in it either. Interesting.... Maybe this last time was a little bit on the fresher side. I'm not convinced that aging tinned tobacco always makes it better. I'm experimenting now on that front in an effort to gather more data. I'm staring at a bowl of this great tobacco in my polished, maple pipe right now and I need to get to it, so to sum it up, this is a really good tobacco and you may love it like I do so don't let the haters put you off.

This is another of the love/hate smokes that abound the world of the pipe. And yet again one of my all time favorites! I am not big on aromatics because of the lack of substance, But this one is IMO one of the dual purpose ones. It meets me nned for a kick and my wife LOVES the smell of the stuff. The tin is fruity smelling and I concur the blackcurrant scent. The taste is pure tobacco with a fair punch of good old nic. It burns clean and light ash to the heel and can be smoked all day if one chooses. It has not bit me yet even when smoked a a good pace but bite does seem to be possible if you try.