re: "The best tobacco you never heard of comes from St. James Parish"

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grower in St. James Parish. He said the same, that most of the unique flavor came from the handling or fermenting of the product and not any unique soil or strain of tobacco.

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That might be true but there still is a difference between the St. James red burley and the Kentucky green river burley processed which is supposedly processed and fermented the same way. I'd go with real perique over green river.

I used to blend my own VA-Perique pipe tobacco and the real perique made a difference but I was heavy handed with the Perique.

Pro-Tip - smoking a bowl of straight perique is a good cure for constipation.