How GL Pease Source His Tobacco?

[cshubhra]

Since Cornell & Diehl manufactures the GL Pease blends….

1. Does GL Pease source from his own suppliers and send them to C&D Warehouse to be blended?
In other words the base tobacco in C&D and GL Pease blends may be different.

OR

2. GL Pease sends the ratio and C&D blends it from its own stock- As in the base tobaccos in GL Pease and Cornell & Diehl exactly the same?

 

[canucklehead]

I would think it's no. 2, but I don't know. I've always been curious about that myself, good question.

 

[crashthegrey]

What I know of other blenders is that blends like that are sourced by the tobacco house.

 

[AJL67]

@JimInks might have the answer. boogie boogie boogie

 

[kcghost]

You could ask Greg or Jeremy directly if you prefer. Both are members of this board.

 

[proteus]

Going to guess it's like a private label arrangement. Pease picks tobacco from their stock and has them blend in Pease's own ratios and processing style, then CD puts the GLP brand label on the tins. There is probably a fee based or royalty structure. Pease is as much a brand as a blender so CD sells more tobacco in the end. Win win. And full disclosure I own many CD and Pease blends and enjoy them all.

 

[cshubhra]

I re-read a random sample of his blogs. In most places he has mentioned “we” got hold of a certain tobacco (So we may mean C&D)

But quotes like this suggest he had more sources other than C&D

Importantly, what is absolutely certain, at this time, is that there is no Syrian Latakia available to me. (That last qualifier is important.) I know two producers who actually have some of the good stuff, and I have tried, to no avail, to get them to cut loose with a bale or ten. No dice. Can’t say as I blame them. They can’t get any more, either, though only one of them tells the truth about that. Even at double the price, they’re not dealing.

 

[Mrs. Pickles]

If I'm not mistaken, in one of his appearances on the Pipes Magazine Radio show, Brian asked Jeremy Reeves about this exactly and Jeremy confirmed the relationship is the 2nd situation (C & D sources the leaf).

 

[cshubhra]

Thank you everyone for chiming in. Thank you @Mrs. Pickles for an authoritative answer

 

[lestrout]

"Blending" tobaccos is not only just cold blending. A given batch of a tobacco can be stoved, toasted, roasted, pressed, etc. The late Bob Runowski told me at Morley's that the late Craig Tarler complained about how particular Greg was with the temperatures in one of the processing steps. I get the impression that in Craig's era, Pease blends got a whole lot more processing than the run-of-the-mill C&D blends.

 

[Mrs. Pickles]

Source for those interested:

Pipes Magazine Radio Show Episode 515

Welcome to The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Episode 515! Our featured interview tonight is with Jeremy Reeves. Jeremy is the Head Blender at Cornell & Diehl, which is one of […]

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The topic comes up at about the 37 minute mark as an aside to the discussion on how sugar and nicotine levels are profiled in tobacco.

Jeremy says: “The way that Greg is developing his blends is with leaf we have on hand.”