Aromatic Fire-cured

This type of tobacco is used for pipe blends. It is grown in the United States in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It’s a rich tobacco that contains notes of floral and adds good aroma and body to the blends its with. One type of fire-cured tobacco is Latakia which has a smokey aroma and a very pronounced flavor. It is usually mixed with English and Balkan-style pipe tobacco. Latakia is made by curing the tobacco leaves and then smoked over aromatic shrubs in Syria, Cyprus, or even local hardwoods.

Brazilian Mata Fina

Used for cigars and is a cousin of Apriparaca. It embodies flavors of sweet, rich, wood. Usually used in higher end cigars.

Brightleaf 

This type of tobacco was  accidentally made around 1839 by a slave of Captain Abisha Slade in Caswell Country, North Carolina.  This type of tobacco is also known as Virginia tobacco too. Brightleaf is ready for harvest when it becomes yellow-green and is most commonly used in blending pipe tobacco.

Burley

Burley is also a very popular tobacco used for blending pipe tobacco. It was created in 1864 by a Mr. Webb near Higginsport, Ohio. Burley absorbs flavors pretty good so it is mainly used in aromatic blends and also much dryer and full aroma than Brightleaf tobacco. This type of tobacco also produces a nice cool smoke that burns slowly.

Cavendish

More or less Cavendish is more a process of cutting and curing a type of tobacco instead of being a type of tobacco on its own. It is usually produced out either Kentucky, Burley, or Virginia and used for cigars or pipe tobacco. Making Cavendish helps bring out a sweet and mild tasting tobacco. The processing of making Cavendish starts with pressing tobacco leaves into a small cake around an inch thick and then after the tobacco is allowed to ferment from either steam or heat from a fire. After, the cake is then broken apart by rubbing in a circular motion. Also artificial flavor maybe sometimes added before the tobacco is pressed into a cake.

Connecticut Broadleaf

Usually used as Maduro wrapper for cigars but, sometimes also used for the binder or filler. Thicker and more earthy tobacco than Connecticut Shade.

Connecticut Shade

Used for milder cigars and is grown mainly in the Connecticut Valley. Produces good amounts of flavor and is a light-colored delicate leaf that is more on the expensive side.

Corojo

Originally a Cuban strain of tobacco that is highly sought after for it’s smooth to creamy to very spicy flavor. It is primarily used for cigar wrappers and was developed in Vuelta Abajo region of Cuba by a man named Diego Rodriguez. The name Corojo comes from the name of Deigo’s farm, Santa Ines del Corojo.

Costa Rican Maron

Criollo

Oriental Tobacco

Also known as Turkish tobacco and is used in pipe tobacco. It is sun-cured and known for being highly aromatic. Grown mainly in Greece, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Lebanon, and of course Turkey.

Perique

Known for having a very strong flavor and is used in blending with Virginian pipe tobacco. Perique came from Saint James Parish, Louisiana and was created by Pierre Chenet in 1824.

Olor, Piloto Cubano, and San Vincente

These 3 are used for cigar fillers and can vary widely. Usually heard in describing the name of a cigar. Also in describing a cigar and determining it’s strength are 3 other main types of fillers: Volado, Seco, and Ligero.

San Andres

Sumatra

Used in the making of cigar wrappers and has a sweet flavor to it. Can vary from country to country of origin though.