Mac Baren HH Acadian Perique pipe tobacco first impression and review

Perique Tobacco - Ag Minute

A Closer Look at Perique

(smokingpipes.com) Perique is an incredibly versatile blending component and one of the most interesting and complex types of tobacco. It's used to create numerous mixtures, often serving as a condimental tobacco to add nuance or complexity to a blend. Perique is steeped in tradition, having endured for centuries, its curing process passed down for generations, and it continues to play a prominent role in pipe tobacco manufacturing. Continued

Smoking Chacom No.4 pipe tobacco

Trying Straight Perique!

Happy New Year. Thoughts on Samuel Gawith Bothy Flake and Johnnie Walker Blue Label.

An interview with Mark Ryan “Mr. Perique"

How do they make Perique tobacco and what’s that got to do with Pappy?

Tie up to London Dock

Aging perique (Library of Congress)

(Pappy's Tobacco Reviews) First off, the label reads: “An aromatic blend with sensuous flavor notes of rum, cherry and vanilla. Premium Double Toasted Barley, Flue Cured Virginias, and naturally sweet Orientals marry exquisitely with a touch of spicy Louisiana Perique.” Continued

Empire Perique ... at abandoned factory site [video]

Opening a Perique Barrel [video]

Smoking Tobacco Review: Mac Baren Acadian Perique

 

(Confessions of a Pipe Smoker) ... With a company as prolific and demanding as Mac Baren, it is a chore to create a tobacco blend that stands out and amasses its own attention built on flavor alone.  Henrik Halberg (the inspiration for the HH series) has stepped up to the plate and found a way to bring even more life to Mac Baren without compromising any of their high standards; raising them in fact, if you ask me. Continued

Another Perique Pilgrimage

 

(Pipes Magazine) ... There is something innately attractive about tobacco in process: hogsheads oozing tar between the boards, the horsecarts piled with russet bundles of leaf, burros of it stacked waist-high on the stripping room floor, the air laced with the filigree of Perique, so pungent that it stains the wooden beams a deep treacly brown. Like staring into a campfire, it connects deeply to the animal brain. Continued

A Custodian of Tradition: Mark Ryan

 

(Smokingpipes.com) When an opportunity came up to sit down with Mark Ryan during a visit to our offices, we jumped at the chance. After all, he's a key figure in pipe tobacco in the US, and possibly the world. Still, I wasn't sure what to expect. Every first-hand account had the man as being intelligent and genial, yet he's such a controversial figure that one can't help but to be a little uncertain as to who exactly it is you'll be meeting.
Fact is, he's a bit of both: a polite, unassuming businessman, with a quick, warm humour and a passion for his craft that still burns brightly after 23 years in the tobacco industry. Continued

St. James Perique Factory Tour Part 1 [video]

The King of Perique Visits SPC

 

(Smokingpipes.com) ... "You can tell I'm passionate as hell about this stuff. I preserved the history, the tradition and culture of an entire community. It was extinct. The whole world's inventory was a legacy inventory. Right after I bought [the L.A. Poche Perique Tobacco company] I went down two blocks to buy some Po' Boys for my employees and the girl didn't know what Perique was. That same year I was in Dortmund Germany and mentioned Perique and six Germans that didn't speak any English pointed at me and said 'St James Parish.' Cherished around the world and we totally lost the history and culture." Continued

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Very Virginia (Lane Ltd 125th Anniversary)

 

(Smoking Jacket) ... The Perique in this blend is subtle, very subtle; the tobacco is almost overwhelmed with Virginias.  Those sweet, grassy Virginias hit you right off, like a cigarette, but then, almost as a surprise, you get a burst of spice from the understated Perique. Continued

Perique – A Lot of Work, But Worth It

 

(Talking Tobacco) I’ve been a big fan of Perique since I started smoking a pipe 40 years ago. I was fascinated by the dark, sweet aroma of it in a jar, and enjoyed what it did to a blend even more. I’ve made well over 100 blends in those 40 years, and probably 30 or more have contained the Louisiana leaf. In the past, I’ve talked about Latakia and Cavendish, usually prefacing my remarks by saying that they aren’t tobaccos, they’re processes. Perique is different, though. It’s a tobacco and a process, and it’s a rather involved process, at that. Continued

Geeks Freak on Perique

 

(Talking Tobacco) ... Every year when they process Perique, they bring in tobacco from four different sections of the “Golden Triangle” in St. James Parish and they mix the leaf together before putting it into barrels. Mark had the idea a few years ago to make barrels of Perique using tobacco from the individual regions, rather than mixing it, just to see what the differences were. He told me that he was surprised at how different the tobacco smelled and tasted, even though the amount of land that Perique is grown on is rather small and close together. Continued