Cuban Embargo

[Kass]

It is coming - when is the question... Prices will no doubt jump (at least initially) and product will become scarcer.

What I'm wondering, though - will cigar manufacturers (as I suspect) start blending other tobacco's with Cuban tobacco? It would seem to me that would be the logical thing to do - at least in some cases. And I'd be really interested to test the final product. Especially with how well the quality of NC has improved over the last several years.

Can you imagine a special blend Opus X and Cuban tobacco? Or an Anejo/Cuban hybrid? Even better yet - age the blends with Cuban tobacco like some of the special editions that have come out in recent years (i.e. LE05). Maybe SE Cuban blend Davidoff's? Or LE versions of Padron 26's and '64's? Maybe Ashton VSG/Cubans?

I was actually thinking about this the other day... Why has this not happened yet, or has it? There must be a big enough market outside the states for cigars like this to sell.

[drew_goring]

I was actually thinking about this the other day... Why has this not happened yet, or has it? There must be a big enough market outside the states for cigars like this to sell.

Which is why I don't think we are going to see much going on for cuban/non-cuban blends when (if) the embargo is lifted.

I can't see Davidoff just strutting in with a Cuban blend...not after the way they left Cuba.

[prophetic_joe]

They actually started talking about this on the Dogwatch the other day. The consensus there was that since all cuban cigars are actually owned by the cuban government they don't believe they will actually sell just tobacco anywhere. I would thing this is actually a pretty good reason considering the lower amount of quality control that cuba has as far as their smokes go. I wouldn't doubt that if Fuente got there hands on some cuban tobacco and started creating blends with it that it would take away some of the sales from Cuban Puros, the cuban government most likely doesn't ig that idea a whole bunch.

[ggiese]

They actually started talking about this on the Dogwatch the other day. The consensus there was that since all cuban cigars are actually owned by the cuban government they don't believe they will actually sell just tobacco anywhere. I would thing this is actually a pretty good reason considering the lower amount of quality control that cuba has as far as their smokes go. I wouldn't doubt that if Fuente got there hands on some cuban tobacco and started creating blends with it that it would take away some of the sales from Cuban Puros, the cuban government most likely doesn't ig that idea a whole bunch.

Yeah - but not all of the cuban tobacco is put into cigars rolled in Cuba. There is still a certain portion that is shipped out at raw tobacco.

And I think, given a significant monetary incentive, the Cuban government will do whatever the big companies want to do...



BTW - Ya buncha goofy Canucks - when is someone going to tell me what the $2 coin is called??? Inquiring minds wanna know!!!

[Kass]

Hahah...it's called a toonie.

[rsanz]

They actually started talking about this on the Dogwatch the other day. The consensus there was that since all cuban cigars are actually owned by the cuban government they don't believe they will actually sell just tobacco anywhere. I would thing this is actually a pretty good reason considering the lower amount of quality control that cuba has as far as their smokes go. I wouldn't doubt that if Fuente got there hands on some cuban tobacco and started creating blends with it that it would take away some of the sales from Cuban Puros, the cuban government most likely doesn't ig that idea a whole bunch.

You can get Cuban/Honduran blended cigars and loose cuban leaf (for your own blends I guess) from. Oops, no discussion of sources. Lets just say www.dong...










...abriel.net

It's in their home blend.