Canadian Flue Cured Virginia “Lemon” 1lb.
$21.99
This Canadian Lemon is hand-harvested and is everything you’ve come to expect from our traditional Lemon. The leaf is in good condition, so stripping and shredding should be fairly easy.
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Description
This is a beautiful hand-harvested mellow Flue Cured Virginia leaf with subtle notes of citrus and dried fruit. This tobacco is traditionally used in Canadian, English and American style cigarette blends.
This tobacco is excellent on its own or paired with others, we recommend the Virginia Red Leaf with a hint of Turkish/Oriental to create a pleasant yet flavorful cigarette blend. Lemon is also common in Pipe Tobacco Blends.
Lemon is harvested “pulled” from the second stalk position and possesses a slightly heavier body than cutters with excellent burn quality and moderate flavor qualities.
Whole Leaf Tobacco has this leaf properly dried to eliminate sugar decomposition and slightly re-hydrated shortly before packaging. Rest assured your tobacco will be delivered ready to shred.
Lemon can also be prepared for Shisha/Hookah production with minimal effort. Follow these instructions for Hookah preparation. The result of using Virginia Lemon for Shisha/Hookah will give you a traditional hookah tobacco that offers a medium tobacco flavor.
Reviews (18)
18 reviews for Canadian Flue Cured Virginia “Lemon” 1lb.
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tullius –
I’m surprised this hasn’t been reviewed yet: really beautiful, perfect case right out of the pack. I smell major orange peel, minor lime zest and tea teaming up with classic virginia in the bag. Smokes equally as complex. Highly recommended.
Marc L (verified buyers) –
This is the most popular stand alone leaf in my hood. Blends well too. Highly recommended!
burge105 (verified buyers) –
Light and sweet with a good citrus sweet taste
burge105 (verified buyers) –
II have no qualms in ordering anything from this site as I know it will be good.
Michael Morgason (verified buyers) –
Packaging is excellent with the leaf in great shape and case is good straight from the bag.
If you haven’t tried this canadian leaf you really should. Taste great.
sdaniel79.ca (verified buyers) –
Now these are niiiice!!! Anything from the store is put to shame
warmwater3 (verified buyers) –
Once again another great product that is simply amazing . The leaves are in perfect condition This makes removal of the mid rib very easy with very little work. The size of the leaves are very large in comparison to others. The taste and flavour is unparalleled. Another benchmark leaf from Whole Leaf Tobacco.
Jacques Perron (verified buyers) –
Fantastic quality, perfect case. Amazing fresh Virginia scent as soon as you open the bag. This leaf will be in all my cigarette blends. I have found my new affordable tobacco source, thank you WLT!
stdly2000 (verified buyers) –
I will be using it in a pipe blend. I`m from Canada and live very near where this baccy was grown. This was the cleanest leaf I received big lemony leaves. Makes me proud thanks.
Steve Willard (verified buyers) –
This is a gorgeous ‘blonde’ leaf tobacco worthy of your best cigarette blends.
Leaves come carefully folded and vacuum packed.
Open at the ‘STEM-end’ of the pack with scissors as close to the seal as possible — you want a nice plastic flap to fold back over.
Please don’t try to just rip a few leaves from the bundle. Here is what I do:
* Once opened, gently pull the entire bundle of leaves out.
* These are wonderful long leaves, and the bundle is folded about four inches from the top point.
* Face the bundle on your lap with the point of the bundle pointing AWAY from you — this is the BOTTOM of the leaves.
* Gently pull the top FOLD away from you (now you are looking at the full length of the leaves, stem to your tummy, top leaf point now folded away from you).
* I like to start from the left, but about mid-left. Give a pull and try to draw a small bunch of leaves out of the bundle, pulling again to the left.
* Ya got some! Put these aside, and repeat. Start with a small amount 1/4 – 1/3 of the total bundle.
* With your working batch now pulled out and set aside, gently refold the top point of the bundle. REPLACE it in plastic carrier again with stems sticking out the open portion of the bag. Slide it down, fold over the end, put the bag back in your storage place.
You have your pulled out leaves — now you are ready to work the tobacco — treat it like you are a promising young chef, seeking a great new recipe.
A few more points:
* Take ONE leaf out of your working pile. Fully unfold it, and admire.
To prep:
* Run your fingers up the leaf, following the center spine, toward the tip. There is a point about four inches from the top where the thickness of the spine wanes.
* Now fold the leaf, grab the spine with one hand, the two outer edges with the other hand, gentle pull out the spine. Stop when the leaf starts to split, then re-position hands, and continue to pull out the spine.
* You will now have two very nice leave halves.
(Sorry I talk so much!) Steve
Jeff Tomlinson (verified buyers) –
This is great. Very reminiscent of Export Plain cigarettes up in Canada, which is what I would normally smoke. I’m very pleased for sure. Will buy again.
Stan (verified buyers) –
Steve you make it too complicated. Just pull the stem through between your thumb and index finger. Don’t worry about perfection if you are just going to cut cigarette tobacco. And I’m pretty sure “lemon” is a color reference, don’t expect any citrus notes. By itself this is too light for my taste, you will be tempted to cut the filters off if you make cigs with just the lemon virginia, I mix this with the “Virginia Blend” and the end result is a very nice Canadian like cigarette.
Dragon Smoke (verified buyers) –
Excellent leaf. Just opened, a bag of this “Canadian Flue Cured Virginia “Lemon””. I got it, about 3 months ago. Nice mild aroma, & (as always) perfect case for shredding! WLT is a great place to get, quality tobacco leaf. Found WLT, last year. Haven’t had any complaints! 🙂
fors25 (verified buyers) –
Excellent tobacco.
Matt (verified buyers) –
I have been smoking Canadian since 13 and I have to say this tobacco has all the taste and none of the nasty after taste of commercial tobacco. Great as a stand alone and blends well with almost all tobacco. Mixed with Turkish and/or Burley it adds a lovely accent. Great strength and smooth! Highly recommended🇨🇦👍
jfvincent007 (verified buyers) –
Amazing leaf. Has a nice malt smell. When I opened the bag I was amazed at how good it smelled and the leaves were in almost perfect shape. Was easy to remove the stems, shred and smoke. It’s that good, mixed very well with red Virginia and a dash of burley.
jfvincent007 (verified buyers) –
Here I am just received Lemon Virginia for the second time, it’s a coincidence but exactly one year later after buying it for the first time. Same quality large yellow leaves with a dark mid rib. Easy to strip and burns very well, it’s a good filler for Burley/fire cure heavy blends.
a_fordman09 (verified buyers) –
I’ll be ordering my next pound soon. I use this for pipe smoking. My last batch wasn’t as easy to thresh. The mid ribs were too dry and kept breaking. I recommend watching out for that and hydrate the leaves accordingly. Straight from bag and no casings added, it starts off as sweet hay with a bit of that grassy funk but turns into a almost honey sweetness with a lot of citrus and tea notes. I cook mine in a instant pot to make black stoved virginia. It becomes very similar to Rattrays or McClelland black virginia with alot of tartness. It’s a great leaf to work with.