Nightcap Discontinued? What a shame.
Tim D
Shop:
Dear Customer,
The Dunhill Nightcap pipe tobacco has been discontinued. Conwood has
recently purchased Lane tobacco and is removing some of the product
lines
that they had. The Dunhill brand of pipe tobacco is one of these
brands
being phased out.
LBSS - Webmaster
Lance Manyon
wrote:
>Conwood has
>recently purchased Lane tobacco and is removing some of the product
>lines
Here is the offender: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conwood
Notice the spam in the article. Not sure what that's all about.
That really sucks about Dunhill. I guess it's time to snatch up all
that can be found. I noticed that Smoking Pipes still has Standard
Mixture Medium, as well as some other Dunhill. I assume other places
have some left as well.
Ian
--
The charge may be true, but I do not resent it,
for I smoke the Arcadia Mixture, and am consequently
indifferent to abuse. (J.M. Barrie)
http://www.aspipes.org/
http://www.bookstacks.org/
Ed Duncan
**************************
glad I've got a decent supply of Nitecap & 965, both Murrays, thanx to
a kind ASPer who bought it bulk, then had it all tinned by Bufflehead.
When it's gone....plenty of good choices from C&D & GLP, so won't miss
the Dunnies at all.
(Still have 1 tin '01 & 4 tins '04 of Apertif to sloooowly smoke up).
Ed Duncan , Batavia, NY
pipe since '62, brain addled/mindless forever
Jari T
Hey,
This may be very well be a wrong time to de-lurk, but I have an uneducated and
probably also utterly uninformed guess what might have happened here. I'm not
totally right in the head yet either. Please disregard this at will. It's late
at night here and I'm puffing Nightcap in a bent sb. IlCeppo as I type away.
A question for Tim D: were you perhaps ordering by any chance any of *bulk*
Dunhills? I understand that a few (three?) of the Dunhill *bulk blends* are (or
have been) blended in the U.S.A. by Lane ltd (not by Murray's nor Orlik). If my
memory serves, they are (or have been); Nightcap, EMP and MM965. As far as I
know, not one Dunhill bulk blend has been for sale here in Europe in quite some
time. Perhaps Lane lost the right to use Dunhill TradeMark?
OR could this reported lack of Nightcap in the B&Ms be the widely feared end of
(Orlik) tinned Dunhill-pipeline that was first forecasted here on a.s.p. about
six months ago? This, I remember, had to do with a business decision with a
former U.S.A. distributor (also the UK has been without Dunhill distributor if I
rember correctly), not asmuch with the producer/blender itself. An unnamed
(Corneel Vermeulen) pipester from Belgium had the scoop on this. I hope we will
hear from him on this alarming matter again.
I guess my point is, that this just might be a glitch in an international pipe
tobacco distributor/trademark scene, but if there's enough demand for good pipe
tobacco -- and i honestly think that the Dunhills (that I have smoked) of today
are fine smokes -- a distributor for the U.S.A. will be found.
Could this be the case? Is there life on Mars? Will you take me back....?
Sincerely Yours,
--
Jari T in Helsinki
Dock J.Perry
see a mass feeding frenzy for all of the more popular blends similar
to what hapened with Greg's "Bohemian Scandal".
I wonder if the Orlik stuff will be looked upon more favourably once
the entire line has been disscontinued? Will folks decide that it's
"not so bad after all?"
That to me is a most intriguing question.....Only time will tell.....
Best,
D.J.
Corneel Vermeulen
> Tim D wrote:
> > The Dunhill Nightcap pipe tobacco has been discontinued. Conwood has
> > recently purchased Lane tobacco and is removing some of the product
> > lines
> > that they had. The Dunhill brand of pipe tobacco is one of these
> > brands
> > being phased out.
> This may be very well be a wrong time to de-lurk,
For you, J, it's never a wrong time to delurk. For me, OTOH ...
> OR could this reported lack of Nightcap in the B&Ms be the widely feared end of
> (Orlik) tinned Dunhill-pipeline that was first forecasted here on a.s.p. about
> six months ago? This, I remember, had to do with a business decision with a
> former U.S.A. distributor (also the UK has been without Dunhill distributor if I
> rember correctly), not asmuch with the producer/blender itself.
What you're describing is exactly what mister shopkeeper in the OP is
referring to.
> An unnamed
> (Corneel Vermeulen) pipester from Belgium had the scoop on this. I hope we will
> hear from him on this alarming matter again.
There you go. I know from last time that my opinion does not count,
though. Seven months worth of research and a little longer to have
that crystalized into a hopefully comprehensive article is considered
irrelevant because I am not American (or British) and for that reason
cannot possibly know what the situation over there might be.
I am sure this counts for you too, as I am coming more and more to
suspect that the presence of people from outside the anglo-cultural
spheres is merely tolerated, and not not taken on merit.
> I guess my point is, that this just might be a glitch in an international pipe
> tobacco distributor/trademark scene, but if there's enough demand for good pipe
> tobacco -- and i honestly think that the Dunhills (that I have smoked) of today
> are fine smokes -- a distributor for the U.S.A. will be found.
The longer this thing takes, the harder it will become to find a new
distributor.
Demand being the key issue, and I wouldn't really dare to state that
from a multinational business point of view pipe tobacco (Dunhill
included) is viable anymore.
> Could this be the case? Is there life on Mars? Will you take me back....?
It could be. But then, the better part of this group (and most
others, for that matter) will take the word of some zit-faced-store-
help-behind-the-counter-of-the-local-B&M's opinion over actual
research.
Can you guess why I don't post often anymore?
Corneel.
(As I stated above, my, and your, presence is merely tolerated, so I
don't really have to worry about my writing this making me any friends
or not.)
Mike Hagley
Mike
"Corneel Vermeulen" <corneel....@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:3d47a57c-2cc9-4735...@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
Charles Potter
>
> Can you guess why I don't post often anymore?
>
> Corneel.
> (As I stated above, my, and your, presence is merely tolerated, so I
> don't really have to worry about my writing this making me any friends
> or not.)
No, No, No, Corneel and Jari. I don't agree with this at all! I'm sure
that many of us Yanks look forward to your input and miss you guys when
you don't post. It is, after all, supposed to be an international group.
I for one remember when you posted on this subject, and was glad to hear
that the Dunhill shortage was really just because of the lack of a
distributor. A major on line tobacco retailer posted much the same
thing. I hope that a new distributor is found soon. There are lots of
new people here all of the time who don't have privy to all of the
information, and there are a few older faces here that either have poor
memories, or are just plain ignorant. Please, don't be discouraged by
this, and post often. ASP needs you, and your opinions most definitely
count!
Charles
Tom Clemons
Here is one ASP participant who hopes you will continue to post on this
forum. I've learned from your posts on other boards. Cheers,
Tom Clemons
ASP Fall 1998
jw
@mid.individual.net:
> Here is one ASP participant who hopes you will continue to post on this
> forum. I've learned from your posts on other boards. Cheers,
And here's another one that doesn't have any idea what he's talking about.
I always enjoyed his posts in the past, but obviously something happened
to drive him away.
--
jw
Dock J.Perry
it's still got two days to go! It's coming folks! Stock up now....
Best,
D.J.