Types of Pipe Tobacco
For a purely Virginia blend, Mac Baren Virginia #1-- is the only Mac Baren blend that is 100% Virginia leaf. I have recently sampled, and taken a real liking to Altadis' Bulk - Virginia Slices 507C, which is an economical generic Danish style Va. flake.
Burley Light without a bite, a breakthrough in pipe tobaccos. Here`s a Burley blend without Burley`s traditional bite and with Lane Limited`s fabulous aroma. This unique blend is not for the Cavendish smoker, but the person who likes Burley.
Cavendish Tobacco refers to tobacco that has been heat treated with fire or steam and then subjected to heavy pressure in order to produce a sweet taste with a moist texture.
Dark Fired tobacco is a variety of tobacco just like Dark Air, Burley, Flue Cured etc. I think Burley is a type of tobacco leaf, whereas Dark Fired and Flue Cured are processes. Don't know off hand what "Dark Air" means.
The only tobacco I can think of that is only grown and processed in only one country (other than certain strains of cigar leaf) is Perique, which is grown in Louisiana (St. James Perique) and Tennessee (Acadian Perique) and processed strictly in St. James Parish, Louisiana.
Turkish tobacco, or Oriental tobacco, is a highly aromatic, small-leafed variety of tobacco which is sun-cured. Historically, it was cultivated primarily in Thrace and Macedonia, now divided among Bulgaria, Greece, the Republic of Macedonia and Turkey, but it is now also grown on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, in Egypt, in South Africa and elsewhere.