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(Talking Tobacco) There haven’t been new types of tobaccos on the pipe side of the business for a while. I don’t mean that there haven’t been new blends. I’m referring to types of leaf that go into the blends. The last one that comes to mind was the development of the main component of McClelland’s Royal Cajun series which is a fire-cured Virginia that is fermented the same way Perique is. So just about every strain or process we use in making pipe blends have been around for some time. The hub of new strain development has been on the premium cigar side of the business.
One of the tobaccos that has been around for a long time has found a new life in recent years – dark-fired Kentucky. This is a very interesting type of tobacco that’s used mostly in snuff and chew, but is also used in pipe tobacco, cigarettes and cigars. There’s some confusion about this leaf, for a couple of reasons. First, it is Burley or not? Continued
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