Because it's a flue cured, it's usually used in cigarettes. People laughed at me, but I swear it has a bit of a lemony taste. It lightens up a cigarette blend. Using WLT's flue cured types as a spectrum it would go, from lightest to heaviest, Lower leaf Virginia Bright Leaf (no longer available, it looks like), Lemon Virginia, Flue Cured Virginia Bright Leaf, Red Virginia.Thanks...do you use it in a cigarette blend or just cigars
It is primarily a cigarette tobacco. I just find it ads a nice bit of sweetness to a cigar.Thanks...do you use it in a cigarette blend or just cigars
Because it's a flue cured, it's usually used in cigarettes. People laughed at me, but I swear it has a bit of a lemony taste..
Lemon is light and sweet. Pressing Virginia is done in one of Mark Ryan's new blends which apparently sweetens it even more. To bring out more sugars this leaf when moistened needs to be hand pressed into the bottom of the tobacco can and ferment dried and remoistened. It is even better.I don't know what you get if you try to pressure-process some flue-cured leaf. Might be good. Might not. I was referring to any leaf that is initially pressure-cured (Perique process).
Bob
Lemon is light and sweet. Pressing Virginia is done in one of Mark Ryan's new blends which apparently sweetens it even more. To bring out more sugars this leaf when moistened needs to be hand pressed into the bottom of the tobacco can and ferment dried and remoistened. It is even better.
Bob's advice is : to remove the "sour taste" from your flue cured virginia, blend it with burley or (even better) with perique.
pressing some virginia can bring some sweetness (if just press it to a cake and let it alone a few days/month... with some air)
pressing some virginia in a perique curing style (under enough pressure to let it ferment under anaerobic atmosphere for at leat 3 month) offers something different : I tried last year to make some perique out of some air cured bright leaves (cherry red) and it reduced the acidity of the leaf, and it changed it's flavors too : it became more fruity but I found it has not a lot of taste.
It all depends All Canadian smokes are 100% Virginia. Burley is not one of our things. I like that citrus tang. Virginia blended with other Virginias can be a really tasty smoke from a Canadian perspective.