I agree. Dominican tobacco is excellent and IMHO rivals most Cuban's I've smoked. I have read before that Cuban tobacco has been getting worse and worse. Before the Cigar boom of the 90's a lot of the Cuban tobacco fields had been converted to sugarcane and other "cash crops" and were converted back to tobacco to help demand. The soil conditions in those fields where destroyed bybad farming practices. You might be getting realCuban's the tobacco used to produce them just sucks.