One of my favorite non-Cuban cigars, so far, is something called "Partagas", I believe. I'm pretty sure that's a Dominican cigar, but can't recall if that's the brand or "model", so to speak :)
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Jason Green wrote: > > > I haven't tried the brick house yet. I'll give those a shot. There's a > > great cigar bar in Lake Forest (OC), I'll have to see if he stocks > > them. > > > > I used to have a great connection for Cubans (I worked in the cigar > > business at the time) but I was never blown away by them. It seemed > > more like a gimmick than anything. > > > > Fuentes makes a great cigar. > > > > > It's not a gimmick. I've talked to enough people older than I to believe > it was a perfect storm of soil, tobacco, the art of rolling cigars, etc. > The problem was the Communists almost completely depleted the soil. Like > a lot of the Russian and Chinese idiots of the same political stripe, > Castro believed that if they just decreed it, it would happen (whatever > "it" was). In the case of cigars, while he immediately alienated the US, > the rest of Europe and the Eastern Block happily bought Cuban cigars. So > they overgrew the crops. > > Now, Cuba is coming back, and in a few more years will be fully integrated > into the community of nations. Mostly we're just waiting for Raoul to > follow his brother into retirement. Even the Albanians don't believe the > Communist cant coming out of Cuba. We'll have Cubans legally in US stores > within ten years. Maybe five. > > But one unintended consequence of the Cuban Revolution was that cigar > makers got better, tobacco crops got better, and some serious money went to > the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Cameroon, and other places that would > have stayed in Cuba otherwise. > > Best,R.E.F. > ---- > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by > stupidity. > > > > > > > >
