Very good article

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[url=http://thecigarauthority.com/editorial-daves-trip-to-cuba-legally-the-conclusion/]http://thecigarauthority.com/editorial-daves-trip-to-cuba-legally-the-conclusion/[/url]

[JeremyU]

I'm sorry but I don't buy this...I didn't when it first came out and I still don't..I am no CC expert, but I can tell the brands apart when I'm smoking them..A SLR regios never tastes like a Connie#1 to me...To believe this article is to believe we have all been scammed...Possible? Of course...Probable? Not so much...

[UBB]

This has been debunked a long time ago already. The author is an idiot

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i just thought it was a good read.... :bla: :bla:

[Pole Lock]

Yeah, this guy's a fucking moron.  Another one of those "blog=expert" guys.

[Johnny-O!]

If you smoke 50 cigars in 6 days your taste buds are shot and cigars will taste the same. Class dismissed :beer:

[habana mike]

Guy couldn't even get the names of the places he went right.

La Favorito = La Floridita
Conda Filla Nue = Conde de Villanueva
La Guarda = La Guarida
some restaurant = El Ajibe

"I know the name Vueltabajo, it is a cigar brand out of the Dominican Republic that is very good and moderately priced."

Vuelta Abajo is a region in the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba and arguably the most famous terroir in the world for growing tobacco. This is like saying he knows the name Bordeaux as a line of clothing......

Quite the attention to detail and knowledge of Cuba!

"They handed me a pyramid shaped cigar that I immediately recognized as a Montecristo #2" - how so if, as he states they're all the same, couldn't have it been just as easily an Upmann, Diplomatico, VR Unicos or any other Piramides?

Love his closing comment: "To my friends in the cigar business, the ones who own and operate cigar factories, to my colleagues, that sell non-Cuban cigars… here’s the good news; Stop Worrying when the embargo ends… it will end someday and you’ll be fine. When the forbidden fruit, “Cuban Cigars” are NOT forbidden anymore, they will not only not sell well due to losing their mystique to Americans, but the rest of the world will open their eyes. Cuba will have to get with the times and improve or grow something else."

Rest of the world can smoke whatever they want and guess what, Habanos outsell everything else combined outside the US so why will that change once "Cuban cigars" are no longer forbidden in the US?????

Total tool.....

[the1and0nly]

Sounds like his guide took him on a tour of a good sized counterfeit operation.

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[quote author=Johnny-O! link=topic=37100.msg156978#msg156978 date=1455674379]
If you smoke 50 cigars in 6 days your taste buds are shot and cigars will taste the same. Class dismissed :beer:
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.......this

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[quote author=the1and0nly link=topic=37100.msg156989#msg156989 date=1455717666]
Sounds like his guide took him on a tour of a good sized counterfeit operation.

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How apt if true.  Actually, if this buttclown is as... charming... in person as in the article, I'd wager this is EXACTLY what happened.

"Si, senor, mi hermosa trabaja en El Laguito en his basement."