Cuban Cigar Questions...

[Toxie]

#1- Nowadays, are Cuban cigars really that great? I have heard that cigars made in the DR and other places are just as good, if not better..

#2- What tobacco do they use when making counterfeit Cubans? Just wondering..

Thanks..

[cls515]

#1 some may say that DR and the like are just as good, but I am convinced that, no, they aren't. Cubans are better. They smell better, they taste better. Hands down. My least favorite Cuban is still one I prefer to my favorite non-Cuban.
#2 I heard that some fakes are still made with Cuban tobacco so they are still Cubans, just not the authentic brand.

[drew_goring]

#2- What tobacco do they use when making counterfeit Cubans? Just wondering..

Thanks..

Fakes are made of just about anything. From decent tobacco which will smoke nicely, to banana leaves and shredded newspaper.

[mauied1101]

Fakes are made of just about anything. From decent tobacco which will smoke nicely, to banana leaves and shredded newspaper.

Personally, I'm a fan of the banana leaves - leaves a nice nutty, full texture that has me craving banana bread. Once in a while you'll get lucky and have one wrapped with passion fruit skin... but those are hard to come by...

[Evillepaintball]

I have never had a cuban, but my brother tells me DR's are better than cubans. He got his when he went to germany, and they were the real thing. One question though, what is an ISOM?

[Stryprod]

I have never had a cuban, but my brother tells me DR's are better than cubans. He got his when he went to germany, and they were the real thing. One question though, what is an ISOM?

ISOM = Island South of Miami

[kubano]

cls515 is right. when i was in cuba last, i asked someone the difference between fake cuban cigars and real cuban cigars.

they told me that fake cuban cigars (generally) are just not authentic. They are not made in the factories with the factory labels. Most times they are the left over waste that local cubans sneak out of the factory (one of many ways to get the leaves) and they make it into cigars.

Sometimes, they go the extra step and get some of their friends to go and get the labels from workers in a factory and combine them.

The end result,... some pretty good fakes. Sometimes its just as good, sometimes the first puff tells you right away.

You really should trust your cigar dealer.

side point to remember (nothing to do with what kind of tobacco in cubans) ... if you work up a relationship with a cigar dealer, and every once in while he sells fakes (labels run when you smoke em) ... more than likely your supplier is selling good fakes and bad fakes and i would suggest finding a different supplier.


enjoy smoking...!

[FunkyCold5]

Nothing can every compare to a perfectly rolled ISOM. No matter how hard I try to smoke really good DRs..........it just doesn't have the same consistency and flavor and smell as any ISOM I've ever had.

[Desert Rat]

#1 Cubans are different than non-cubans, not better or worse. My tastes have gravitated towards Cuban cigars, but I still enjoy plenty of other cigars as well.

#2- What tobacco do they use when making counterfeit Cubans? Just wondering..

Are you asking what kind of methods, materials, and procedures counterfeiters use when they are illegally producing cigars?

To my knowledge, I have not sampled many counterfeits. My commen sense tells me, someone unscrupulous enough to "counterfeit" a product would use the most inexpensive means available to produce a counterfeit and make the greatest profit-i.e. the cheapest chit around.

"Farm Rolled Cigars" referrred to above are another story and not sold as counterfeits.

[Roham]

Well, chances are if you buy a cuban somewhere other then cuba and not from a reputable shop it is fake and probably not even cuban tobbacco. Don't bother. But if you are in Cuba and buy some cigars on the street, they are fake also, but chances are they are rolled with cuban tobbacco. My two cents...