Quote Originally Posted by hed View Post
I wish I had known that before buying a Padron Sampler a couple of months ago. As far as I'm concerned, it's not much of a sampler if the only diff is the shape.
Depends on the cigar. Some cigars are blended slightly differently by vitolla so that the brand taste is the same regardless of vitolla. Other cigars use the same blend, and thus, the taste changes as the size changes, as, for example, the proportion of wrapper to filler changes as the cigar ring changes.

Of course, the differences will generally not be as great as the differences between brands, but it is still a sampler.

AFAIK, Padron doesn't change the blend. For example, among the thousand series (2000 to 7000), I find the 4000 to be clearly my favourite. I have no opinion on the four different 1926's which you refer to; I haven't smoked enough of each different vitolla to have an opinion.