Tobacco Types and Classifications

Tobacco types:

Virginia: Virginia is undoubtedly the most popular tobacco type nowadays. Virginia represents nearly 60 percent of the American tobacco crop. Virginia is the mildest of all tobaccos and has the highest natural sugar content which generally offers it a mild sweet taste. This type of tobacco is used in practically all blends, is a good burner and helps in lighting.

Pure Virginia tobacco is most widely known from flake types. Dunhill’s Light Flake is a very good instance. It is moderate in strength and rather mild in taste. Marlin Flake being a rather strong part of the family, but still very sweet. The Blue Caledonian of the Danish manufacturer A&C Petersen is moderate in strength and provides pleasant pure taste of Virginia tobacco.

Burley: Burley is the second well-know type of tobacco blending. Burley tobacco consists of almost no sugar, which provides a much dryer and richer taste than Virginia tobacco. It is applied in many aromatic blends as it sops the flavorings. This type of tobacco burns gradually and provides a cool and strong smoke. White Burley offers a pure tobacco taste with a soft characteristics that will never “bite.”

Pure Burley blends are mostly manufactured by U.S. and Danish firms. Blends like Blue Edgeworth, Old English and Half-and-Half are typical instances. Half-and-Half blend contains a little bit of flavorings. Burley tobacco is as well the main component in the majority of the Danish McBaren blends.

Oriental: Oriental is the variety of tobacco that is cultivated in the Balkans, Russia and Turkey. The most widely known types of Oriental tobacco are Bursa, Cavella, Izmir, Samsun and Yenidji. A typical feature of this tobacco is a heavy, dry and sometimes slightly acidulated taste. Some of them are also contained in “exotic” cigarettes from Arab nations.

Tobacco Classifications:

Air-Cured: Air-cured tobacco is dehydrated in a natural way, arranged in huge barns so as tobacco was not exposed to sunlight. The drying is done on the whole tobacco plant or just leaves. Sugar is the by-product of this 90 days drying process.

Fire-Cured: Fire-cured tobacco is similar to dark tobacco. Its natural-way drying is finished by a wood-fired fumigation.

Sun-Cured: Practically all of Oriental Tobaccos are sun-cured. Oriental Tobaccos are cultivated in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Sun-curing represents curing of tobacco in the open air.

Dark Tobaccos: Dark Tobacco is very fully developed tobacco. Tobacco leaves are exposed to a second fermentation process. Dark tobacco leaves are grown to produce cigars.

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