Quote Originally Posted by gopyerk View Post
Interesting one. I would say that you are correct. Back then it seemed like the selection just was not as broad and there certainly were not as many great cigars around as there are now. The evolution of the Boutique cigar probably has something to do with this. The Perdomo's, Don Pepin's and Miami Cigars of the world were not around then. Seems back then every tobaconist carried the standard Macanudo, Punch, Hoyo and RYJ selections with maybe the ocassional Monte at some of the ones in Chicago where I cut my smoking teeth. The boom was when the most cigars were out there, of course most of them were terrible.
I agree 100%. At least half of today's selection did not exist. Hell, I smoked Henry Clays because I thought they were the best maduro available. H. Upmann was my luxuary stick.