Because we are buying handmade cigars and it is a live product, one that ages, there will always be differences in cigars. I have some quite expensive Cubans that are lovely but the occasional one is plugged or a bad flavour comes into play. No-one can say until the cigar is smoked whether it will be great, plugged etc etc, all they can do is TRY to get consistency. Part of the fun with real ale is that a beer can be fantastic from one barrel and horrible from the next, if you wanted it made exactly the same each time there would never be any lows or highs, no richness of fortitude when you have that really excellent cigar which isn't always the same in the next exact same cigar. In Japan they try and make their whiskies exactly the same but I like my Scotch which can ever so often have a devine minute difference which may be recognised in a single cask whisky. Each leaf of the tobacco plant is different, how can anyone say without smoking it what it will be like. What we can say is i like that cigar most of the time and when at it's best it really is a world beater, but a plugged cigar at $1 or $50 smokes the same, badly