Latakia Blends - Do They Age Well?

[Mister Moo]

Originally Posted by RevSmoke

...What I mean is, the tobacco crops weren't the same, and there is good possibility that the constituent tobaccos making up each blend are different. If the latter is true, they'd be very different at the same age, side by side. If the former is true, they'd be slightly different at the same age.

That's what I'm wondering about. I'll never know what 1989 Balkan Sobranie tasted like in 1989 so, knowing what it tasted like in 2009 doesn't tell me anything about how it aged. We need some pipe-fossils to comment here.