I’ve been using my Peterson Natural Silver Mounted Army 15 (above - she’s so pretty I couldn’t resist ?) solely for straight Va’s since I got it. Haven’t entirely broken the pipe in yet as I don’t often smoke straight Va’s. Having said that, it still always smokes hot and wet. Mainly smoke Astley’s No. 44 and Erinmore in it.
Today I decided to try some Stokkebye Luxury Navy in it. It smoked fantastically well - one relight and never got hot or gurgled.
So, does perique typically help tame some otherwise hot Virginia tobaccos? If not perique, then I suppose it could be attributed to different varietals of Virginia, perhaps. I know it’s not because my smoking technique suddenly became that much better...