Any suggestions on which one to go for if I'm wanting to add more of the fig notes than spice?
Blending Perique that is More Figgy than Peppery?
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I'm not sure that there are separate periques for those specific tin notes. I think it is the ration used and the other leaf used. I think that using less perqiue brings out the subtle figgyness of certain Virginias, but as to exact specifics, I am not 100% sure.
In my experiece , aged blends of perique loose some of the pepper and gain in dried fruits.
Sorry, no I didn’t want to turn Perique into Cavendish. I just was thinking about adding some cavendish to round it off to compliment the Pliny character.
I was not responding to you, just thinking out loud. I wonder what would happen to perique if it went through the cavendish process.
Interesting… Sutliff Perique seems cavendished too me, it’s so uniform compared to C&D. It is an interesting thought though.
Maybe. Personally, I get a lot of the figgyness from St James Flake, and my understanding is that it is fairly heavy on the perique.
I'm just going on what I've read Russ post on here. I have no personal experience blending with perique. But, if you think of it like working with cinnamon on foods. A little adds sweetness and savoriness, but a lot of it adds peppery spice. Also, your reds and darker Virginias tend to get that figginess, even without perique, more often than the lighter Virginias.
Yep, the guys on this forum will cavendish anything! Cooking Perique into Cavendish, for a New Pipe-Blending Ingredient - https://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/cooking-perique-into-cavendish-for-a-new-pipe-blending-ingredient.11450/
Absolutely! D&R Blender's Bench 10 year matured Perique. Also Percy Martin Jewel Of St James Perique tobacco. Both are in the hard to find category as they're no longer made and long sold out, but it's out there if you look hard and wide enough.
I haven't tried the Torben Dansk, but neither of the aforementioned blending Periques available to the public at retail are going to give you anything close to what the D&R or Percy Martin give you in terms of fruitiness.
Aging whatever blending Perique you can find may increase the fruitiness.
Whole Lead Tobacco perique. You have to process it yourself, but it was well worth it in my opinion. Behind that, I use the Sutliff. Wasn't as big on C&D perique
I’ve been smoking some blends with a high percentage of Perique but I didn’t get the more Perique the more peppery it gets experience. The high percentage Perique could be fruity as well.
I think Sutliff uses a proprietary casing formula on a lot of things to make their product more uniform, to my tastes it adds sweetness as well. It is especially noticable in their dark fired, where it even is listed as such in the description:
Now that makes sense. Thanks, I thought I detected a uniformity to the Sutliff perique. Once I had about an ounce of C&D in a jar for a while with a lot of air space and it took on a distinctive cherry note. It was fantastic, that’s why I prefer C&D long cut now.