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Originally Posted by pektel
Those engineered seeds sound like criollo. I was reading the CI catalog last night, and they had a blurb about the CAO Criollo.
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With the constant aim at "Cubanesque" qualities, I've often wondered why more NC producers don't run with a criollo filler and Corojo/Habano wrapper blend in at least a line or two. It's a perpetual ponderable to me in the same way it still stuns me that pretty much nobody in the NC world was doing a regular-production triple-cap until what... the late '90's? Sure, it's a little more expensive, but the 'just like the real thing!' bullet-point's gotta be worth it. It seems to me that it wouldn't be that much tougher or more expensive for a lot of NC factories to produce cigars closer in broad flavor to the typical Cuban profile, if not the complexity/subtlety.
