Joya de Nicaragua Fuerte?

Originally Posted by T.G

What's probably making things confusing is that Joya de Nicaragua is the name of the company, but has sort of been adopted as the name of the cigars too.

Keep in mind that this cigar is the "Fuerte" by Joya de Nicaragua. Fuerte means "strong", but there is no baseline for what "strong" is, it could mean "strong cigar" or "stronger than this other cigar we make" both of which are very subjective.

This is a strong cigar and it also happens to actually be stronger than the "regular" JdN (round band, gold trim). The JdN Antanio, which you might be thinking of, is a different cigar. The JdN Fuerte does use the same Criollo wrapper leaf as the JdNA though.

These are the cigars in the JdN lineup (in no particular order):
The original unnamed cigar from JdN, which has become known as the "JdN", Fuerte, Celebracion, Antanio, Antanio Dark Corojo (not yet available).

There used to be a Serie C, with a Connecticut shade wrapper, but that was discontinued about two years ago.

FWIW, Jonathan wanted to call these "Cheap and Strongs" but I guess someone at CI changed the name to "Fuerte" Sounds fancier (raises pinky)

Hopefully that helps some.

Good info here and now raises my curiosity about them. I am fan of JDN and have smoked the consul for many years and then converted to the Antano. Have been seeing the "fuerte" and was wondering if it was hype or the real thing. Guess I need to get a 5 pak and see for myself.

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Lower grade tobac .... A tad on the Harsh side, Decent strong tobbaco flavor
An Antano ...Nope not even close.
But they aint bad for a cheap smoke
BUT ...REMEMBER , This is coming from the old cowpoke who'll smoke a tree branch