St. James Perique Tobacco
Price range: $19.99 through $37.99
Perique is a rare, slow burning tobacco. With high nicotine content, we suggest blending it with other tobaccos. Perique is often used as a condiment tobacco and lends a fruity/spice flavor to the blend.
Description
Perique is a rare, slow burning tobacco grown and processed in St. James Parish, Louisiana. This tobacco has a high nicotine content we suggest blending it with other tobaccos. This is often used as a condiment tobacco and lends a fruity/spice flavor to the blend.
Whole Leaf Tobacco purchases these damp leaves packed into a barrel. We vacuum seal this tobacco to preserve freshness and prevent oxidation and mold growth.
DeluxeStogie @ FairTradeTobacco –
The new Perique (“Grand Point Perique”) comes, like all Perique, as soggy, whole leaves packed into a barrel. Both this new Perique as well as the currently offered Perique are authentic St. James Parish Perique. The current one is from a much larger scale operation that sources its leaf from multiple regional growers.
It is my understanding that Grand Point Perique produces only 3 or 4 barrels of Perique per year. So this is special stuff. It is artisanal St. James Parish Perique.
The leaf is both stretchy and springy, so it was a challenge to measure. The somewhat spread leaves below are the same leaves shown in the first Perique photo.
The Perique is not suitable for a solo run, I made up one of my favorite blends to sample them together- the Pearl of Sharma:
WLT Lemon VA: 5 parts
New WLT Stacked Basma: 4 parts
New WLT 2017 Latakia: 4 parts
New WLT Perique: 3 parts
I can’t say that the new Perique is “better” than the other WLT Perique. The apparent nicotine content seems similar. It’s alkalinity seems the same, or maybe a touch more alkaline. The pouch aroma of the new Perique may be slightly fruitier (compared directly). The smoking aromas (also compared directly) seem similar.
tullius –
Received a small sample with a recent WLT order. This perique is outstanding: stretched out the moist leaves, stacked it with various other tobacco leaves (mainly virginias), rolled into a rope, tightly bound it, left for a month and then sliced into thin coins and aged another month. Dead ringer for unaged Escudo tins. Highly recommended.
freedompiper (verified buyers) –
The best, freshest genuine perique available. No mold problems. Great price.
Tobaccofieldsforever –
Genuine st. James parish perique. You will not find St. James perique of this quality for this price anywhere else!! The owner of whole leaf (Don) and staff are also all incredibly helpful and courteous. Any questions or issues (I have yet to have any!) will be happily handled and customers will be satisfied! I will not go anywhere else for my tobacco needs now that I have found whole leaf!!
Gabriel Taylor (verified buyers) –
I love this tobacco. Occasionally I do enjoy it straight, albeit not for the faint of heart. My favorite aspect from blending, aside from its flavor, is it’s ability to remove tongue bite from any other tobacco.
Brian Levey (verified buyers) –
This is my second batch, and it’s by far the best I’ve ever had. Raisin poop would be the best way to describe the smell, very fruity and a bit fermented. I’m mixing it about 5-10% with anything lighter which is about everything, from lemon to broadleaf, red, and a touch of m609, which is a great mixing tobacco, thin, high nic, light mild taste which fills in nice with the perique.
By far this is the best batch I’ve gotten from WLT, and as always it’s top notch, shipped fast and high quality.