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Originally Posted by neoflex
Thanks for the insight and that is the kind of feedback I was looking for and by no means was I trying to make this a conspiracy theory type thread. Just trying to fill in the blanks in my head.
I know that each manufacturer has their own processes and use certain seeds for similar leaf grown in a region but I was just trying to make sense in my head why they have had such a hard time getting the yields needed when it seems so many others are producing sticks with wrapper from the same region especially since it seems that so many new sticks as of late are sporting Connecticut Broadleaf as a wrapper. I know the Pepins have a very high standard too and I would figure they would be facing the same issue but I guess the difference must be in the seed.
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See, that's just it - new. They can use what is out there now and create something with it. For the Ligas currently on the market, they are committed to a specific blend with specific tobaccos. Changing something isn't an option.
Seed, farm, weather, how it's fermented, all of this plays a part to make a finished leaf different. If the Pepins were using this same tobacco, grown on the same farm, processed the same way as DE, then they would be faced with the same issues, but they aren't using that same tobacco. They are using a tobacco with only, at most, a few things in common, but being from the same original genetic lineage, the same name is used to describe it to the public in the releases.