New Cigar Release Info

[HIM]

It's just way to much stuff coming out, I'm really getting tired of trying to keep up with it all. I'm really feeling burnt out and turned off from it all.

Then you don't want to hear Tatuaje is supposed to have a big year. A lot of special retailer releases and killer blends he's bringing back.

[Joe k]

Then you don't want to hear Tatuaje is supposed to have a big year. A lot of special retailer releases and killer blends he's bringing back.

Yea Pete is opening a store in Maine, they bought a old bank and turned the vault into a humidor. KC gave me the whole run down a few months back when I ran into him at an event. Pete and KC are going to be at Famous tomorrow doing a event

[Schatzman]

Then you don't want to hear Tatuaje is supposed to have a big year. A lot of special retailer releases and killer blends he's bringing back.

When Pete came to our shop we were talking and he said he wants to take a break from special editions. He followed that up by saying the reps would want to kill him.

I think if he took a year off people would be freaking out and amped for the follow up year.

[Demuths1770]

Then you don't want to hear Tatuaje is supposed to have a big year. A lot of special retailer releases and killer blends he's bringing back.

you now have my intrest!!!!

[Browns7213]

It's just way to much stuff coming out, I'm really getting tired of trying to keep up with it all. I'm really feeling burnt out and turned off from it all.

Its the business model for the industry to constantly churn out new stuff to keep their brands relevant. Which makes the proposed FDA regs so damaging, as every new release would have to under go a full review prior to launch. This is similar to the way Rx drugs are approved, the drug maker pays the FDA a $1.6 million "User Fee" to guarantee the drug is reviewed within a year. However, the FDA rarely makes that deadline with reviews dragging on for up to 2-years. And a review does not guarantee approval, they can simply say No to approval. If cigar makers have to pay a user fee, which it will, there will be very few new releases in the future. It could be why we are seeing such a flurry of activity ahead of the FDA decision.

[Dave.73]

Not trying to derail this thread but this is a great thread! Thanks for starting it. Now back to your regularly scheduled smoking....

[HIM]

I can see where it gets tiring for him but you have to do something with all those amazing blends. Why not share them with the world and make some money in the process? Plus a lot of his releases are limited but sort of in rotation the way they come and go, which I like.

[Browns7213]

Take this one for what its worth, but sounds like marketing speak to this brand manager.

Altadis U.S.A. Inc. said it has recently unearthed a small batch of Trinidad cigars that have been neatly tucked away in the depths of its vintage cedar room for nearly a decade. After years of aging, the cigars are being released to the public under the moniker Trinidad Lost Blends.

Two sizes of the exclusive series will be made available: Salomon, 6 inches by 52 ring gauge, and Belicoso, 6 1/8 by 54. The scope of the Lost Blends release is extremely limited, as only 50,000 cigars will be made available to the public.

[HIM]

I have a hard time believing that. Seems like lately everyone is trying to act like they have all these cigars they just happened to forget about for 10 years before magically finding them again.

[Browns7213]

I have a hard time believing that. Seems like lately everyone is trying to act like they have all these cigars they just happened to forget about for 10 years before magically finding them again.

Agreed. There was another one announced last week that the daughters of the Quesada owner, who BTW know nothing about tobacco, stumbled upon some 16-year old stuff sitting in the corner of the warehouse. AND, they were given the reigns to use that tobacco to develop their own blend. Ugh, huh.