Cuban Cigars

Master T

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 That being said, you guys really seem to know your stuff and I’d still like to ask you guys a question. I’ve been smoking Cigars off and on for almost 20 years now, but mostly they have been Cuban and I started getting into it seriously into them over the last 4 months or so. The collection has grown to two humidors and over 150 cigars and I now I find myself making time to smoke them.

 

Anyway, as I smoke more and more and try different manufacturers and brands I find myself thinking that these Cubans that everyone loves so much are over rated. Although some are excellent, I can’t say that they are better than some others that I have smoked at ½ the price.

 

I’m just wondering how everyone else feels about them.

smbrink

I believe that the general attitude towards this subject is that a good cigar is a good cigar, and a bad cigar is a bad cigar no matter where it comes from. Just because a cigar comes from... oh lets say.....Honduras doesn't mean that it's better than a cigar from Nicaragua.

Lasabar

jlmarta

kuzi16

JZ

There are certainly excellent Cuban cigars as with other orgins in the world. I think part of the popularity lies in the fact that they are illegal in the U.S. It's similiar to our childhoods, if we were told no, we wanted whatever it was even more. I've had some great cubans, and some not so great, but then again its like that with all of the cigars I have smoked. I do crack up when I hear someone raving that all Cubans blow the competition away.

kuzi16

Matt Marvel

Master T

kuzi16

Krieg

Matt Marvel

jsnake

I have had the opportunity to smoke 2 Cubans and for me it was a treat. Had I not been told they were Cubans would they have been so good? I honestly do not know. I think part of it was the knowledge they were Cubans made them already good in my head before lighting one up. Just as in anything we all know there are good Cuban cigars and bad ones too. Not everything from your favorite brand is good for the most part. I personally think every Gurkha I have smoked is a treat while others think they make nothing but turds. Of course your palate and individual taste in cigars will determine this also.

Krieg

jsnake:

I have had the opportunity to smoke 2 Cubans and for me it was a treat. Had I not been told they were Cubans would they have been so good? I honestly do not know. I think part of it was the knowledge they were Cubans made them already good in my head before lighting one up. Just as in anything we all know there are good Cuban cigars and bad ones too. Not everything from your favorite brand is good for the most part. I personally think every Gurkha I have smoked is a treat while others think they make nothing but turds. Of course your palate and individual taste in cigars will determine this also.

Ghurkas give turds a bad name. jk

laker1963

T. Gervais

People who are uneducated in cigars have an automatic misconseption that cuban cigars are the best because that is what they have been told by the media and whatnot, and because of the forbidden fruit factor. If they did their research they would see that most of the tobacco blenders and families that were making the finest cuban cigars before the embargo are now making their cigars elsewhere using the same tobacco seed, the same process and technique, and virtually the same growing conditions. Yet they are coming up with newer and better things, all at less than half the price.

mcadenhead

I agree with the "forbidden fruit" factor. I think it is human nature to want what we can't have. I have had a few cuban cigars and did not think they were any better than some other brands from different regions. That being said, I am looking forward to a carribean cruise next spring and picking up a box of cubans

Luko

Lasabar

ejenne87