Best Selling Cigar?

bobarian · 08-10-2009, 04:38 PM

I have a difficult time believing Tatuaje is anywhere close to the sales of Macanudo as they limit the number of retailers and the amount of cigars allocated to each. Pepin and Fuente are also limited distribution.

Macanudo's are probably the one cigar you could recommend to a non-smoker that they would smoke. Milder than most of us would smoke, but certainly not totally devoid of flavor.

Just a generation ago, names like White Owl, Roi-Tan and Muriel were dominant in the US market. Before the Boom years, tobacco from the Dominican Republic was all that you could buy and those brands still dominate. Its only quite recently that tobacco from Central America has come to the forefront of cigar production.

NCRadioMan · 08-10-2009, 04:41 PM

They typically are. Macanudo's are advertised heavily in many different magazines so the casual smoker see those adds and buys them. The internet cigar community is very, very small when compared to the masses that do smoke cigars.

Machine made cigars still outsell handmades 10 to 1.

rizzle · 08-11-2009, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by NCRadioMan

They typically are. Macanudo's are advertised heavily in many different magazines so the casual smoker see those adds and buys them. The internet cigar community is very, very small when compared to the masses that do smoke cigars.

Machine made cigars still outsell handmades 10 to 1.

For reals?

08-10-2009, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by bobarian

I have a difficult time believing Tatuaje is anywhere close to the sales of Macanudo as they limit the number of retailers and the amount of cigars allocated to each. Pepin and Fuente are also limited distribution.

In the article they said they polled 46 retailers, so it was based on that, not sales everywhere in America.

itsme_timd · 08-10-2009, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bobarian

I have a difficult time believing Tatuaje is anywhere close to the sales of Macanudo as they limit the number of retailers and the amount of cigars allocated to each. Pepin and Fuente are also limited distribution.

The CA article didn't mention sales, it said 'most requested'. Top spot in most requested and most sales are total different beasts all together.

Mark · 08-10-2009, 05:05 PM

For what its worth, at the shop where I work we sell more Macanudos and Acids than any other single cigar brand. They may not be tasty, but a LOT of people smoke them! Even people who would call themselves "cigar smokers" smoke Acids and Macanudos. We are a VERY homogenous group here at CA in terms of our cigar preferences, and those preferences are FAR from what the general public prefers.

That having been said, I like our choices better

The Poet · 08-10-2009, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Mark

That having been said, I like our choices better

Me too. Mmmmmmm, Phillies.

08-10-2009, 04:38 PM	#1
bobarian Cranky Habanophile Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Wine Country Posts: 8,869 Trading: (51)	Re: Best Selling Cigar? I have a difficult time believing Tatuaje is anywhere close to the sales of Macanudo as they limit the number of retailers and the amount of cigars allocated to each. Pepin and Fuente are also limited distribution. Macanudo's are probably the one cigar you could recommend to a non-smoker that they would smoke. Milder than most of us would smoke, but certainly not totally devoid of flavor. Just a generation ago, names like White Owl, Roi-Tan and Muriel were dominant in the US market. Before the Boom years, tobacco from the Dominican Republic was all that you could buy and those brands still dominate. Its only quite recently that tobacco from Central America has come to the forefront of cigar production.

08-10-2009, 04:41 PM	#2
NCRadioMan Chutney Lovebusciut Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Chutney Location: On the shores of Loch Shiel Posts: 4,291 Trading: (67)	Re: Best Selling Cigar? They typically are. Macanudo's are advertised heavily in many different magazines so the casual smoker see those adds and buys them. The internet cigar community is very, very small when compared to the masses that do smoke cigars. Machine made cigars still outsell handmades 10 to 1. __________________ That's when I got it. - Tristan (Shack XX)

08-10-2009, 05:05 PM	#6
Mark Tarheel. Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Mark Location: Chapel Hill, NC Posts: 407 Trading: (1)	Re: Best Selling Cigar? For what its worth, at the shop where I work we sell more Macanudos and Acids than any other single cigar brand. They may not be tasty, but a LOT of people smoke them! Even people who would call themselves "cigar smokers" smoke Acids and Macanudos. We are a VERY homogenous group here at CA in terms of our cigar preferences, and those preferences are FAR from what the general public prefers. That having been said, I like our choices better