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Originally Posted by shilala
It sure is a diversion from their "protect the mystique" philosophy. It hasn't been long since I'd grab every Opus I could find for the guys here. (I no like.) Now they're everywhere, even online. I never saw one of those 3 cigar tins till this year, I bought up a whole rack, then played hell getting rid of them. I'm still stuck with 3 tins. They'll make nice gifts, I suppose. 
There must be a new captain at the helm with some different ideas? |
I dunno. I have no idea how the decision power is divided between Carlos and Carlito.
There is a bit of resurgence in cigars going on, in my talks with a number of manufacturers & makers, they all seem to believe that we're heading into an expansion, almost a mini-boom, but without a repeat of a lot of the garbage (caused in part by crop shortages) from the early 90's.
Besides that, I see a few other possibilities such as the upswing in HTF & LE interest and sales over the last few years so maybe they upped production, good crops 3-5 years ago so there is more tobacco for them to use and I believe that Fuente has been expanding their capacity over the last few years (actually, I can't think of many manufacturers who haven't expanded in the last few years) because they seemed to be having a hard time meeting demands, but were still adding new accounts, now, all of a sudden, all the accounts seem to be getting more cigars. And, lastly, maybe with all the other NC HTFs out there top chose from, could Fuente product be moving a bit slower in any one location, yet better across the board due to increased availability. Couple that with more product in the distribution and you have a recipe for stuff being easy to find.
Probably a combination of many things.