Cuban Embargo

**pub spears** · 05-30-2007, 09:17 PM

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...cle=1&catnum=0 So maybe 1 day the embargo will end, prices will rise, quality will fall, and eventually a correct medium will follow ? Is this the general consensus?

**drew_goring** · 05-30-2007, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by pub spears

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...cle=1&catnum=0 So maybe 1 day the embargo will end, prices will rise, quality will fall, and eventually a correct medium will follow ? Is this the general consensus?

Pretty much. It is going to happen. Maybe not in the near future, but in my lifetime for sure. I am not looking forward to that day. (IMO anyways)

**Newfie** · 05-30-2007, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by drew_goring

Pretty much. It is going to happen. Maybe not in the near future, but in my lifetime for sure. I am not looking forward to that day. (IMO anyways)

Yup, yup, yup and yup

**chefchris** · 05-30-2007, 10:39 PM

i can't wait for the day that i can get my hands on a Cubano.

**ggiese** · 05-30-2007, 10:46 PM

It is coming - when is the question... Prices will no doubt jump (at least initially) and product will become scarcer.

What I'm wondering, though - will cigar manufacturers (as I suspect) start blending other tobacco's with Cuban tobacco? It would seem to me that would be the logical thing to do - at least in some cases. And I'd be really interested to test the final product. Especially with how well the quality of NC has improved over the last several years.

Can you imagine a special blend Opus X and Cuban tobacco? Or an Anejo/Cuban hybrid? Even better yet - age the blends with Cuban tobacco like some of the special editions that have come out in recent years (i.e. LE05). Maybe SE Cuban blend Davidoff's? Or LE versions of Padron 26's and '64's? Maybe Ashton VSG/Cubans?

**Kass** · 05-30-2007, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by ggiese

It is coming - when is the question... Prices will no doubt jump (at least initially) and product will become scarcer.

What I'm wondering, though - will cigar manufacturers (as I suspect) start blending other tobacco's with Cuban tobacco? It would seem to me that would be the logical thing to do - at least in some cases. And I'd be really interested to test the final product. Especially with how well the quality of NC has improved over the last several years.

Can you imagine a special blend Opus X and Cuban tobacco? Or an Anejo/Cuban hybrid? Even better yet - age the blends with Cuban tobacco like some of the special editions that have come out in recent years (i.e. LE05). Maybe SE Cuban blend Davidoff's? Or LE versions of Padron 26's and '64's? Maybe Ashton VSG/Cubans?

I was actually thinking about this the other day... Why has this not happened yet, or has it? There must be a big enough market outside the states for cigars like this to sell.

**drew_goring** · 05-31-2007, 12:00 AM

Originally Posted by Kass

I was actually thinking about this the other day... Why has this not happened yet, or has it? There must be a big enough market outside the states for cigars like this to sell.

Which is why I don't think we are going to see much going on for cuban/non-cuban blends when (if) the embargo is lifted.

I can't see Davidoff just strutting in with a Cuban blend...not after the way they left Cuba.