Dunhill Royal Yacht

[DrumsAndBeer]

My overall impression of the current Dunhill line up is that it is produced for smokers who regardless of tobacco flavor strength, really like nicotine.

I was not expecting the baby mule kick I received from the new version of Early Morning Pipe, but it sure has a helluva-lot more Lady N. than any light English I have ever smoked. I experienced the same results with London Mixture. That said, I am staying clear of RY and Nightcap.

 

[Aristokles]

If it's an "official" Dunhill blend, either bulk or tinned, it's made by STG/Orlik in Denmark these days. Dunhill doesn't do tobacco these days ! Brand name belongs to STG/Orlik and they've done a bang-up job of replicating them todays as they were when blended by Murray and Dunhill.

You sure? BATCO still owns the brand. Orlik/STG is their contract blender/packer.

That may be, but the fact is DUNHILL does not produce tobacco products anymore. If you go to London to the Dunhill store you WILL NOT find ANY tobacco products or pipes for sale. Lot's of clothes, leather goods etc. You have to go to the "White Spot" store next door to find what used to be sold at Dunhill's anymore. Heh, it's the politically correct 21st century  :twisted: :twisted: 

Well, with the exception of Nightcap and Royal Yacht, the Orlik stuff stinks. I hold out hope BATCO moves production elsewhere frankly. They won't of course, carrying only about cigarettes.

I wouldn't catigoricaly say that they "... all stink" that's merely your IMPRESSION and OPINION. :twisted: My OPINON and IMPRESSION is that they've done a GOOD job with 965 as well as BANG-ON with Royal Yacht. I have no OPINION of Nightcap as I never liked it so I didn't smoke it. Different strokes for different folks  :twisted: :twisted: 

Yep. You and I have done this dance before. Never said it was NOT a personal opinion. Puff a little more, bro', ya need it.

 

[gravel]

My overall impression of the current Dunhill line up is that it is produced for smokers who regardless of tobacco flavor strength, really like nicotine.

I was not expecting the baby mule kick I received from the new version of Early Morning Pipe, but it sure has a helluva-lot more Lady N. than any light English I have ever smoked. I experienced the same results with London Mixture. That said, I am staying clear of RY and Nightcap.

I found that wee kick from EMP surprising as well.

 

[Thomas Tkach]

Remember this about Royal Yacht, it get's much of it's flavor and aroma from it's being tinned . When the e-tailers have the quantity sales is the time to pick up quantity of it.

How and what flavors does tinning give the tobacco that jarring can't?

 

[monbla256]

Remember this about Royal Yacht, it get's much of it's flavor and aroma from it's being tinned . When the e-tailers have the quantity sales is the time to pick up quantity of it.

How and what flavors does tinning give the tobacco that jarring can't?

Back when Murray blended all of Dunhill's tobacco, you could also get 965 in bulk. It was just slightly different than the tinned version and some folks would put it in jars for "aging" and even then, when I had the opportunity to have some it WAS DIFFERENT overall than the tinned version. I would guess the vacuum process used when they tinned it might have done something, but I'm not one of the many experts to be able to definetivly say, it's just my empirical observation which I've applied to Royal Yacht which even then was not available in bulk. But the situation being what it is, if you want a quantity of RY, you'll have to buy a quantity of tins as that's the way the current producers have decided how it will be marketed. Now if you don't mind, I'm gonna open a "new" tin of Royal Yacht and light up my 3rd bowl of one of the FINEST blends/mixtures available today !!  :twisted:  Onward thru the Fog  :twisted: :twisted:

 

[Thomas Tkach]

Dunhill tins go on sale at the big etailers quite regularly compared to other blends - if you're subscribed to newsletters from smokingpipes and P&C and save your pennies for those times you come out with VERY good value on tins.  I think at certain times sales are 4 tins + 1 free and even 3 tins + 1 free, you end up with $6ish per 50g tin of mixtures like Nightcap, $7ish for Royal Yacht, and $8ish or so on Navy Rolls.  (If you buy 4-5 per blend at a time, depending on the sale)

This is how I've stocked up on RY, Nightcap, and Navy Roll tins.  I prefer them to bulk, and at the pricing noted above its pretty close to bulk when you consider the un-added cost of jars if you're not recycling ones you already have.  (A lot of bulk buyers who plan to cellar don't incorporate jar price/per for their bulks.)

But if you are buying flake, you only need half the jar space!

 

[Godwhacker]

Just got 10 tins in this afternoon of RY, cracked one myself and this evening has been complete bliss!!!

 

[monbla256]

Dunhill tins go on sale at the big etailers quite regularly compared to other blends - if you're subscribed to newsletters from smokingpipes and P&C and save your pennies for those times you come out with VERY good value on tins.  I think at certain times sales are 4 tins + 1 free and even 3 tins + 1 free, you end up with $6ish per 50g tin of mixtures like Nightcap, $7ish for Royal Yacht, and $8ish or so on Navy Rolls.  (If you buy 4-5 per blend at a time, depending on the sale)

This is how I've stocked up on RY, Nightcap, and Navy Roll tins.  I prefer them to bulk, and at the pricing noted above its pretty close to bulk when you consider the un-added cost of jars if you're not recycling ones you already have.  (A lot of bulk buyers who plan to cellar don't incorporate jar price/per for their bulks.)

But if you are buying flake, you only need half the jar space!

Flake vs Ribbon cut, not an apple to apple comparison. Royal Yacht never was nor will be a flake. :twisted: :twisted:

 

[Thomas Tkach]

Dunhill tins go on sale at the big etailers quite regularly compared to other blends - if you're subscribed to newsletters from smokingpipes and P&C and save your pennies for those times you come out with VERY good value on tins.  I think at certain times sales are 4 tins + 1 free and even 3 tins + 1 free, you end up with $6ish per 50g tin of mixtures like Nightcap, $7ish for Royal Yacht, and $8ish or so on Navy Rolls.  (If you buy 4-5 per blend at a time, depending on the sale)

This is how I've stocked up on RY, Nightcap, and Navy Roll tins.  I prefer them to bulk, and at the pricing noted above its pretty close to bulk when you consider the un-added cost of jars if you're not recycling ones you already have.  (A lot of bulk buyers who plan to cellar don't incorporate jar price/per for their bulks.)

But if you are buying flake, you only need half the jar space!

Flake vs Ribbon cut, not an apple to apple comparison. Royal Yacht never was nor will be a flake. :twisted: :twisted:

I was just making a general reply to a general statement about bulk vs. tins, not RY in particular.