Camacho Triple Maduro (Old Label)

[Sticky B]

This is always something of a curiosity to me. Is it just that a different band makes people change what they think?

Now it's been said that the company has released a statement that it's not a re-blend, but people are still swearing it's different. It could be because of the yearly tobacco changes, etc. but then wouldn't that mean that people might have noticed some small change from year to year without a band change? Seems odd that all of the sudden there's a non-cigar change (band design) and now suddenly everyone can taste some type of difference, when technically the blend was always "slightly changing" based on yearly crops since it came out, right?

Placebo effect?

Or could it just be that everyone who smoked the old one has smoked some well-rested cigars, while the new ones haven't been sitting in B&Ms for a year or more before consumer purchase?

Who knows

[StogieNinja]

This is always something of a curiosity to me. Is it just that a different band makes people change what they think?

Now it's been said that the company has released a statement that it's not a re-blend, but people are still swearing it's different. It could be because of the yearly tobacco changes, etc. but then wouldn't that mean that people might have noticed some small change from year to year without a band change? Seems odd that all of the sudden there's a non-cigar change (band design) and now suddenly everyone can taste some type of difference, when technically the blend was always "slightly changing" based on yearly crops since it came out, right?

Placebo effect?

Or could it just be that everyone who smoked the old one has smoked some well-rested cigars, while the new ones haven't been sitting in B&Ms for a year or more before consumer purchase?

Who knows

This was widely debated back when the branding changed, and I'll grant you that it could easily have been placebo effect, but I just don't think so. Something changed, at least to my palate, and I was smoking a LOT of maduros back then. A number of FOGs who had been in love with the cigar agreed something had changed, regardless of what the makers said.

It also makes sense that as the new owners reblended all their other cigars and likely were sourcing a lot of new raw material, that the "blend" for the Triple Maddy didn't change, but the quality of the ingredients shifted quite a bit. For example, take a chocolate cake recipe that calls for 1lb of baking chocolate. The difference between Sharffenberger chocolate and Hersheys chocolate is going to be huge, and it's going to taste entirely different, even though in both cases you'd be adding "1lb of baking chocolate" just as the recipe called for.

To have that sort of change happen at the same time all the other cigars were completely re-blended and the ownership changed hands seems to be the most-likely scenario, at least in my opinion.