Fake Dominican Cohiba?

asolomon

My dad got some Cohibas a couple of months ago in the DR and gave me a few. I haven't tried them yet (I just got them Saturday) but I noticed they're not the red dot kind - the band says Cohiba in gold shiny lettering on a white background, and then below that in an orange background it says Republica Dominicana. I'm not sure if this is a different type of Cohiba manufactured for sale in the DR or if this is a counterfeit - any thoughts??

j0z3r

Garen B

j0z3r

Nice Garen...mind posting a link so I can see what these look like?

asolomon

Garen, I tried Googling them and failed, can you post some links? Edit: Actually, mine don't look like that. There's no black dots, and the Cohiba writing is in gold. Still probably a fake though?

Garen B

Diamondog

asolomon

So CCOM says the Red Dot is the Dominican Cohiba made for sale in the US. Is there possibly a different Dominican Cohiba made for sale somewhere else?

Diamondog

asolomon:

So CCOM says the Red Dot is the Dominican Cohiba made for sale in the US. Is there possibly a different Dominican Cohiba made for sale somewhere else?

Actually I just remembered there are 2 companies in DR that produce Cohiba....General Cigar and I cannot remember the name of the other but I actually have some at home....I will post name and pic tonight, these are very obscure though, they are actually not bad...I have some churchills and torpedos

poypoyking

Diamondog

asolomon

poypoyking

asolomon

Oh God. So I decided to light one up today (I'm congested due to a cold, so if it tastes terrible I figure I'd notice it less lol). It felt really spongy and was already coming apart at the foot. Punched it with the punch on my Bugatti B-1 and the thing just fell apart. I opened it up because hey, might as well, and sure enough, a ton of short filler with some stems and boy did it smell gross. Glad I didn't smoke it! Had a Romeo y Julieta Habana Reserve instead, it was a little dried out since it spent a month or so outside a humidor (I got it over break and my humi was at school) but after a few months in the humi it smoked pretty damn well

Garen B

It fell apart after just punching it? Jeez man, you might just want to burn the rest for warmth or use it to light your bbq. Hope you get over that cold soon, nothing sucks worse than having great smoking weather and being too sick to enjoy a stogie.

Diamondog