Cuban tobacco

[Ferrari5180]

I am not a big fan of Cuban tobacco, but they do have some good cigars. You will not see any Cubans in USA until the embargo is lifted. Hopefully it is done soon. However, lifting this embargo could make the already expensive price of a CC skyrocket even more.

[NCRadioMan]

Originally Posted by Ferrari5180

I am not a big fan of Cuban tobacco, but they do have some good cigars. You will not see any Cubans in USA until the embargo is lifted. Hopefully it is done soon. However, lifting this embargo could make the already expensive price of a CC skyrocket even more.

Expensive? That is a, widely held, misconception my friend. On the whole, Cuban cigars are much less expensive than nc's. Much less.

[Parshooter]

Originally Posted by NCRadioMan

Expensive? That is a, widely held, misconception my friend. On the whole, Cuban cigars are much less expensive than nc's. Much less.

He's from Canada. They ARE expensive there.

[NCRadioMan]

Originally Posted by Parshooter

He's from Canada. They ARE expensive there.

True but you don't have to buy in Canada.

[gnbikes]

In speaking with several industry insiders, the Cuban blenders are all ready experimenting with "imported" tobaccos. I did not believe it when I heard this the first time, but having it confirmed by people that "used to be" key people in the Cuban cigar industry, I now believe it. So don't be suprised when you see Cuban cigars that are not puros.
Garry

[shilala]

Originally Posted by gnbikes

In speaking with several industry insiders, the Cuban blenders are all ready experimenting with "imported" tobaccos. I did not believe it when I heard this the first time, but having it confirmed by people that "used to be" key people in the Cuban cigar industry, I now believe it. So don't be suprised when you see Cuban cigars that are not puros.
Garry

They would love to get their hands on Connecticut wrapper. It's tough to grow tobacco in Cuba that isn't chewed full of bug holes.
It certainly wouldn't be but a two minute consideration for them, I'm sure.
Iirc, pre-embargo cc's were nearly all, if not all, made with Connecticut wrappers.

Originally Posted by shilala

They would love to get their hands on Connecticut wrapper. It's tough to grow tobacco in Cuba that isn't chewed full of bug holes.
It certainly wouldn't be but a two minute consideration for them, I'm sure.
Iirc, pre-embargo cc's were nearly all, if not all, made with Connecticut wrappers.

I myself am waiting for Cameroon wrapped.

[M1903A1]

Originally Posted by shilala

Iirc, pre-embargo cc's were nearly all, if not all, made with Connecticut , wrappers.

I've never heard that. I did, however, read a claim once (but only once) that most if not all pre-embargo wrappers were sun-grown instead of shade-grown.

[TheRiddick]

Originally Posted by shilala

Iirc, pre-embargo cc's were nearly all, if not all, made with Connecticut wrappers.

Criollo until about mid '30s. At which point they developed Corojo (derivative of Criollo), which became their staple until the big changeover in late '90s.

[mithrilG60]

Originally Posted by NCRadioMan

True but you don't have to buy in Canada.

You do unless you want to risk VERY expensive tariffs/duties/fines being applied by the friendly customs agent to your shipment of chocolate from Switzerland. Especially considering the Swiss have recently changed their shipping guidelines the odds of packages making it through customs and into Canada unaffected are less and less.

Originally Posted by akumushi

If you're paying $18 for a CAO Brazilia in Canada, it would be more appropriate to simply state that cigars are expensive there, CC or NC. I've spent less than that on a fiver of Brazilia before SCHIP was passed.

Welcome to taxation This is also the reason why no one in Canada thought that SCHIP was a particularly big deal. Even with the increase in taxation resulting from that bill, the taxes applied to tobacco in the US are still just a very small fraction of what we're dinged with up here.

Originally Posted by NCRadioMan

Expensive? That is a, widely held, misconception my friend. On the whole, Cuban cigars are much less expensive than nc's. Much less.

Agreed

[poker]

Originally Posted by Ferrari5180

I am not a big fan of Cuban tobacco, but they do have some good cigars. You will not see any Cubans in USA until the embargo is lifted. Hopefully it is done soon. However, lifting this embargo could make the already expensive price of a CC skyrocket even more.

Thats not actually a very true statement.

[replicant_argent]

Originally Posted by poker

Thats not actually a very true statement.

I think we need to have a chat with Altadis, Kelly.
I believe the card.

Originally Posted by poker

Thats not actually a very true statement.

When I saw that statment I was thinking he clearly hadn't been to Mr Rudo or Mr Chens domicile.