Virginia - SOLO 10+20mL

Virginia

Definitely the best known and oldest tobacco. Sir Walter Raleigh gave his name to this tobacco grown for the first time in the homonymous English colony whose name was chosen in honor of Queen Elizabeth II: the Virgin Queen. It arrived in Italy only later thanks to the fashion launched by Prince Amedeo of Savoy, so much is his effigy portrayed on cigar boxes.

Virginia has a wide range of cultivars, often referring to the cultivation area, but the treatments of the leaf also differentiate it. In general it is very aromatic and sweetish with light green or yellowish leaves when ready for harvest. It is unquestionably one of the most used tobaccos in the production of cigarettes and fundamental in many pipe blends.

It has aromatic characteristics, even complex in the most valuable cultivars, it does not have a demanding taste and for this reason its aroma is considered among the classic "all day" for those who use the electronic cigarette.

This aroma is extracted from a Virginia FCV, let's find out what is meant by this acronym whose meaning is Flue Cured Virginia whose classification is regulated in Europe by the EXPLANATORY NOTES OF THE COMBINED NOMENCLATURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (2015/ C 076/01) of 03/04/2015:
“flue-cured tobacco of the Virginia type, tobacco that has been dried with hot air in artificial atmospheric conditions through a process of regulating the heating and ventilation, so that the smoke does not come into contact with the tobacco leaves; the color of dried tobacco normally varies from lemon yellow to very dark orange or red. Other colors and color combinations often result from different degrees of maturity or from cultivation or drying techniques”