Enlighten me on C&D and GLP

[swilford]

A few other interesting things that are more recent - they have a proprietary red VA cavendish and proprietary Perique grown on farms owned by Laudisi, C&Ds parent company.

Just chiming in here quickly to say that we don't own the Perique farm (31 Farms); it's owned by the Roussel family, who have been growing perique in St James Parish for generations. We have had a very close relationship with the Roussels since the farm's resurrection over the past few years, helping in various ways, both on the product side (Jeremy Reeves works very closely with them, of course) and on the business and tobacco regulatory side. We've been buying the farm's entire output, so, yes, it's proprietary, but in the looser sense that the output is a shared endeavor between C&D and 31 Farms and used exclusively in C&D's products.

So, while we're involved with them as close partners with a shared vision for making perique the right way, Laudisi does not own the farm.

And thanks everyone for loving on C&D in this thread!

Sykes

 

[jguss]

…there are also smaller blenders…

So I’m not sure what’s considered appropriate nowadays, but smaller, being a comparative adjective, feels a bit dismissive to me. A quick google yielded a variety of more sensitive descriptions. Some are so obscure or elliptical as to verge on the arcane, which in today’s world may be a very good thing. Many are new to me and I look forward to road testing a few when I’m at the Chicago Show.

 

[ofafeather]

Just chiming in here quickly to say that we don't own the Perique farm (31 Farms); it's owned by the Roussel family, who have been growing perique in St James Parish for generations. We have had a very close relationship with the Roussels since the farm's resurrection over the past few years, helping in various ways, both on the product side (Jeremy Reeves works very closely with them, of course) and on the business and tobacco regulatory side. We've been buying the farm's entire output, so, yes, it's proprietary, but in the looser sense that the output is a shared endeavor between C&D and 31 Farms and used exclusively in C&D's products.

So, while we're involved with them as close partners with a shared vision for making perique the right way, Laudisi does not own the farm.

And thanks everyone for loving on C&D in this thread!

Sykes

Thanks Sykes. I appreciate the clarification and all that you do to keep pipe smoking alive!

 

[bullet08]

Both are reputable. C&D does GLP per GLP's instructions.

 

[ChubbyOldHiker]

Just chiming in here quickly to say that we don't own the Perique farm (31 Farms); it's owned by the Roussel family, who have been growing perique in St James Parish for generations.

And we locals appreciate that C&D is keeping the Perique business whole. Throwing a rock in St James or St John and missing a member of the Roussel family takes some doing lol. A Roussel worked for me for like 8 years, though I don’t believe he was directly related to the perique farmers.

I also really appreciate when folks in the business post here. Thanks for all the great blends and the information.

 

[ThermionicScott]

Great video, I learned that molasses is added to the Burley in Old Joe Krantz. Never knew.

I love when Jeremy just casually tosses out little nuggets like that.

 

[anotherbob]

they're the one blender I could live with just their offerings and be happy. They're kind of the tobacco nerds pipe tobacco in a way. And they cover a lot of room with their styles. I smoke more CD then anything else.

 

[Zamora]

So I’m not sure what’s considered appropriate nowadays, but smaller, being a comparative adjective, feels a bit dismissive to me. A quick google yielded a variety of more sensitive descriptions. Some are so obscure or elliptical as to verge on the arcane, which in today’s world may be a very good thing. Many are new to me and I look forward to road testing a few when I’m at the Chicago Show.

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"Pygmy" always makes me think of that line in the Sopranos about "that pygmy thing in Jersey"