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Il est difficile d'avancer une raison à ces nombreuses marques abandonnées après la fin des années 60, alors qu'elles incluaient des mélanges particulièrement prisés des fumeurs. La réponse cependant réside probablement pour l'essentiel dans un changement global  de l'environnement du blend  et, de façon également importante, des efforts de Dunhill pour rationaliser ses propres affaires.  
Il est difficile d'avancer une raison à ces nombreuses marques abandonnées après la fin des années 60, alors qu'elles incluaient des mélanges particulièrement prisés des fumeurs. La réponse cependant réside probablement pour l'essentiel dans un changement global  de l'environnement du blend  et, de façon également importante, des efforts de Dunhill pour rationaliser ses propres affaires.  


Beginning in the 1960s there were major, adverse, developments in the supply of Oriental tobaccos. The complexities of some of Dunhill’s blends depended upon being able to  source individual Oriental sub-varieties, but beginning in the 1960’s there was an increasing tendency for leaf from various localities to be bulked and sold together. Better known, the Syrian government banned production of Latakia in that country in order to preserve what remained of its forests (the production of Syrian Latakia involves large log fires). As a consequence  blenders were forced to turn to Cypriot and Turkish Latakia which has distinctly different characteristics and results in a different tasting blend.   
Le début des années 60 connut des développements négatifs d'importance dans la fourniture des tabacs orientaux. La complexité de certains mélanges Dunhill reposait sur la capacité à se procurer des sous- variétés spécifiques de tabacs orientaux, mais au début des années 60, on eut une tendance croissante à vendre ensemble en lots des feuilles de tabac provenant de diverses localités. On sait davantage que le gouvernement syrien interdit la production de Latakia dans ce pays pour conserver ce qui restait de ses forêts (la production de Latakia syrien nécessite de brûler beaucoup de bois). En conséquence les blenders furent forcés de se tourner vers les latakias chypriotes et turcs qui ont un caractère nettement différent et donnent des assemblages au goût différent.   


The effect on Dunhill blends was not immediate as Dunhill had significant supplies of Oriental on hand in various stages of its aging process, but ultimately there was no avoiding the more generalized Oriental leaf and the disappearance of Syrian Latakia.  In order to postpone those effects Dunhill may have had to consolidate, cut some ‘name’ blends in order preserve leaf for other blends.  And in time, lacking the proper leaf it may have abandoned some blends altogether, rather then change blend characteristics through substitution.  I suspect that such may have been the case with the “Durbar” blend, which was dropped from the line in the late 1960s and then in short order replaced, at least on American store shelves, with “My Mixture 1066” with the explanation that it was ‘Durbar’.  While this may have just been an attempt to placate customers upset over the loss of “Durbar” it is also possible that a lack of the correct leaf meant that Dunhill either had to drop or change the blend, and that this was their answer.  One acquaintance who has smoked both “1066” from the 1970s and “Durbar” datable to a few years before believes that in fact the blends differed.
The effect on Dunhill blends was not immediate as Dunhill had significant supplies of Oriental on hand in various stages of its aging process, but ultimately there was no avoiding the more generalized Oriental leaf and the disappearance of Syrian Latakia.  In order to postpone those effects Dunhill may have had to consolidate, cut some ‘name’ blends in order preserve leaf for other blends.  And in time, lacking the proper leaf it may have abandoned some blends altogether, rather then change blend characteristics through substitution.  I suspect that such may have been the case with the “Durbar” blend, which was dropped from the line in the late 1960s and then in short order replaced, at least on American store shelves, with “My Mixture 1066” with the explanation that it was ‘Durbar’.  While this may have just been an attempt to placate customers upset over the loss of “Durbar” it is also possible that a lack of the correct leaf meant that Dunhill either had to drop or change the blend, and that this was their answer.  One acquaintance who has smoked both “1066” from the 1970s and “Durbar” datable to a few years before believes that in fact the blends differed.