Cigars similar in taste to the Fuente Short Story>

[Dan]

Where are you getting this information from? In my research the blend is the same in all the hemingway cigars. To my understanding there is a specific "hemingway" blend of long filler tobacco. The only difference is the amount used for each size.

I found this interview from C.A. with Carlos Fuente Jr. (from 2005)

CA: You mentioned blending. Can you talk about how different sizes in a brand have different flavors?
Carlos Fuente: I don't blend a gran panetela the same way I would blend a double corona. They would be the same tobaccos but in different proportions. With different dimensions and different lengths, you get different cigars. Cigar making is probably the most difficult craft in the world. In the wine industry, you have a crop of grapes, you ferment them, and you mix liquids together and it becomes uniform. With cigars, you're blending solids. That's where it takes not only know-how, but also art. You're blending sometimes as many as five, six, seven different flavors together. I like to refer to them as herbs and spices. The Fuente line is extensive, and that's because it evolved. In Nicaragua, we made a certain type of cigar. Before the Cuban embargo, we made a certain type of cigar. When we moved to the Dominican Republic, a lot of the people wanted them milder. And little by little we toned them down. Around 1982, we started adjusting it back up, and we introduced the Chateau Fuente line.

There you go, just read the text I bolded. I don't know where the article I mentioned is online but I found the piece of paper I wrote the note down on, because it made everything make sense to me about the taste differences. But the interview you posted proves my point. Carlos Fuente says it right there, that he uses "different proportions" in different sized cigars, which therefore gives you a different tasting blend.

All you have to do is take the filler from a short story, and the filler from a Hemingway classic, and smoke them each out of a pipe. That's what I did when I first became confused about the taste differences. I knew the size or outer leaf could effect the taste, so when I was trying to understand why they tasted different, I took them to the pipe. Try it yourself, you'll notice that the tastes are quite different.

Well a robusto is going to be around 50-52 ring guage and the little Special G is probably around 46 at the widest part of the body. Also, I don't care for the Special G maduro, they do not taste like the Short Story at all. Try a natural Special G. At around $2.50 you can't go wrong.

I know, it just was the closest I had come so far, it's just that the minute I taste that smooth leathery taste I think short story. I'll pick up a natural special g the next time I'm at the smoke shop.