C&D Carolina Red Flake Grade, What Does it Mean?

[swan]

Hello!

I really like the Red Flake from C&D, I think it is a great tobacco with great aging potential.
I was curios about the information on the label, does anyone know what those codes mean?

I am talking about:
"Grade: D1A, D1F, D1H"

I haven't been able to find any information whatsoever, not even in the standard tobacco grading... Can anybody help?

thank you!

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title - Bob

 

[mso489]

I think C&D might share that information. I think but don't know that red denotes leaves picked high on the plant, and Carolina tobacco is mostly Virginia varietals grown in the Carolinas, though I think N.C. grows some burley too. All this is to say, I'll watch this thread to get better educated. Some of the Carolina leaf is rated as very mild; is that your experience of it?

 

[BROBS]

apparently the tobacco is graded by letters and numbers from where it comes on the plant and how it's cured:
Tobacco, Grades of | Agricultural Marketing Service - https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-and-standards/tobacco

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Hello!

I really like the Red Flake from C&D, I think it is a great tobacco with great aging potential.
I was curios about the information on the label, does anyone know what those codes mean?

I am talking about:
"Grade: D1A, D1F, D1H"

I haven't been able to find any information whatsoever, not even in the standard tobacco grading... Can anybody help?

thank you!

Here's a link to a YouTube video of Cornell & Diehl's head blender talking about Carolina Red Flake and the special crop of red Virginia that went into it. IIrc I don't think he explained what the letters and numbers meant but it's worth a look if the blend interests you.

Chris.

 

[BROBS]

you have to watch out for red virginas...

 

[sandollars]

Based on that Youtube video, it looks like this is the end of Carolina Red flake as we have known it. Next year will be something different because they are out of this batch

 

[swan]

apparently the tobacco is graded by letters and numbers from where it comes on the plant and how it's cured:
Tobacco, Grades of | Agricultural Marketing Service - https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-and-standards/tobacco

Thank you. I had checked this link but still, I cannot find anything similar to the grades specified by C&D, there is no "D" grade.

Also, on the youtube video the explanation was not very clear to me, seemed more of a sort of "internal" grading system.

I will ask C&D at this point...

 

[BROBS]

I'm assuming that link can't have all the grades.. there have to be the other "letters".
probably outlined in some foot-thick FDA "booklet".

see this type for example:
Flue-Cured Tobacco U.S. Types 11, 12, 13, 14, & Foreign Type 92 Cutters C Group Grades and Standards | Agricultural Marketing Service - https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/flue-cured-tobacco-us-types-11-12-13-14-foreign-type-92-cutters-c-group-grades-and

 

[swan]

I'm assuming that link can't have all the grades.. there have to be the other "letters".
probably outlined in some foot-thick FDA "booklet".

see this type for example:
Flue-Cured Tobacco U.S. Types 11, 12, 13, 14, & Foreign Type 92 Cutters C Group Grades and Standards | Agricultural Marketing Service - https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/flue-cured-tobacco-us-types-11-12-13-14-foreign-type-92-cutters-c-group-grades-and

Yup I searched the entire website but I was not able to find any D grade.
It is a Gov website so all the info should be there, nothing should be missing. Still, D1A and the others are missing.

 

[BROBS]

It is a Gov website so all the info should be there, nothing should be missing.

ROFL