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