Which Perique Blending Tobacco is Your Favorite?

[johnnyflake]

I've decided to try adding Perique Blending Tobacco to a few blends of other tobaccos that I enjoy to see if I can come up with something I will like. Any thoughts on what's available and what you have come up with will be appreciated! Which is your favorite?

 

[sablebrush52]

Pure St. James Perique? :: Pipe Tobacco Discussion

Is there pure St James Perique sold retail for blending? And while we’re talking St James Perique, do any of the producers let folks visit the facility? I’d love to do that, even if I’ve yet to haul my ass to Louisiana. Something for my bucket list though!

pipesmagazine.com

 

[kcghost]

Just about every major seller of tobacco has perique on hand. Several even sell the stuff. You'll have to decide whether or not you will try blend something other than St. James Perique.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

It really is hard to know exactly what your getting when you get perique.

After reading what Mark Ryan says about it, it's clear as mud.

https://pipesmagazine.com/blog/put-that-in-your-pipe/the-mystique-of-perique/

Seems like the stuff labled St. James is made from all locally grown tobacco which causes a lot of inconsistences. Mark says that's the "pure" preique. Then they make Acadian Perique and it's made with kentucky burley.. not fire cured just burley from Kentucky. Mark says that's makes up 90% of what they sell.

My bet is that you get the acadian if you buy blending perique.

It's good whichever it is.

 

[craig61a]

I have a number of Perique tobaccos stashed away.

Stokkebye PS311, McClelland Perique, Sutliff Perique, C&D Granulated Perique, and Whole Leaf Tobacco St. James Perique.

They’re all similar.

My preferred Perique is WLT St. James Perique. Is it really St. James Perique? I can’t say for certain. But of all the ones I have, the WLT has the best flavor to me.

I just opened a bag I had from 2019.



A nice VaPer blend I like to whip up is:
65% Three Sails
25% WLT SJP
10% Sutliff Stoved Virginia

 

[proteus]

The raw whole leaf. I use this in a lot of my own blends. This is St James perique.

 

[Gerald Boone]

It really is hard to know exactly what your getting when you get perique.

After reading what Mark Ryan says about it, it's clear as mud.

https://pipesmagazine.com/blog/put-that-in-your-pipe/the-mystique-of-perique/

Seems like the stuff labled St. James is made from all locally grown tobacco which causes a lot of inconsistences. Mark says that's the "pure" preique. Then they make Acadian Perique and it's made with kentucky burley.. not fire cured just burley from Kentucky. Mark says that's makes up 90% of what they sell.

My bet is that you get the acadian if you buy blending perique.

It's good whichever it is.

While being rather new to this I do notice that perique does differ. I definitely have a superior and inferior bag of perique. They both smell and taste the same but one has much more of the flavor I like than the other which to me is watered down. This could be because of something as simple as age and oxidation.

 

[Sigmund]

If in the EU I suggest the Torben Dansk. I have serious doubts about it being real SJ perique but it does make a blend taste like it has more Peique. The other EU choice is McConnell. For me it was pretty flat and didnt add much flavor.