My third:

Peter Stokkebye Peaches & Cream

Thanks to the wonders of PG, this was still very moist after 6 years. I placed mine under a lamp for a couple hours to dry it out a bit. The bag note was what I consider quintessential bulk aromatic…i.e. fruity Cavendish goodness with a bit of “zip” or “twang” to it. I don’t really smell the crème in the pre-light, but the peach is most certainly there. This reminds me of the McClelland Georgia Cream blend. I smoked my first sample in a MM cob with Forever Stem. I wouldn’t go so far as to say this tobacco was “flat”, but it definitely mellowed out a bit. I thought the crème flavor actually had a bit of nuttiness to it, and the peach tasted much less like a chemical concoction, and more like the leaf had really been soaked in peach nectar. The burn was cool, and there was nothing bitey about the blend. The room note is still excellent (in turn, leaving a pleasant “moustache note” as another reviewer put it ) This might be the oldest aro I’ve smoked that I could really compare against itself fresh in my mind. I realize this blend actually has some Virginia in it, and so it might weather better than a pure Cavendish, but I wouldn’t say this gained anything with time. I seems more a matter of losing a bit of sharpness and becoming more homogenized flavor wise. I think it is a tossup as to which one I prefer (old or new).

I actually dug up a thread where I reviewed a fresh batch of this in June:

3. No. 303 Peaches and Crème
Similar to the Highland blend, No. 303 is comprised of Virginias grown exclusively on the African continent, black Cavendish, and some milder Burley. My first pipe of tasty aro was “Mellow Moonshine” from the Gatlinburlier which features a peach brandy topping. As such, this is another somewhat uncommon pipe flavor that I still gravitate to over ten years later. This blend certainly has the scent down- if I close my eyes I can smell the peach juice running down my wrist when I take a whiff of the bag. True to nature, there is also the slightest fruity zing to it that keeps it from being a purely sickening sweet odor. No. 303 quickly declared itself the winner in the “who gets smoked first” contest and was loaded into a Chacom Manet. From the first char, this is the stuff room-note dreams are made of I felt guilty smoking it without anyone around. This seemed moist but stayed lit, though some gurgling did occur towards the end of the bowl. The peach flavor was evident from the first puff, walking a thin line between natural and artificial/chemical but trending towards the former. The sweet crème flavor in the retrohale was pleasant but was played down by the bit of tartness in the fruit topping. I can see this blend biting if puffed too hard. Overall- a reasonable peach aro, but certainly not the best on the market. C+