Craig, elaborate. Do you mean that the term "blended" refers to a cigar made from tobaccos from different farms, but still within the borders of one country? If so, then a cigar may very well be "blended" and still retain "puro" denotation, right?
If you mean that all cigars are made from tobaccos that are grown in more than one country, then what about at least Cuban cigars?
Thanks
ETA: Also, if there is an expression of nationalism amongst manufacturers, then it's lost on me, as well as any associated snobbery. Since most manufacturers are involved in some way in lines that use multi-country blends, besides any "puros" they put out, to do this would be shooting themselves in the foot. Now, I think catalogs do it all the time, but they are playing to the fickleness of consumerism; that some ad somehow will strike a chord with a buyer long enough to click the "buy now" tab, and who the hell knows what chord the buyer will hear . . . nationalism, nostalgia, exotic geography, exotic physique (a pretty popular chord in advertising), or what?
For me, I find myself going back to Nicaraguan "puros". Those cigars marketed under this banner are the ones I like the most, followed by Dominican. Multi-country blends? I've had enough awful shit from CAO to turn me away probably as a result of experience and psychologically for sure. There are cigars made from tobacco originating from more than one country that I really enjoy though, just not as many.
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