boutiquie brands & limited edition cigars

jship079

Do you think limited edition and boutiquie brands do these just to make a more expensive cigar or do you think the tabacco and quility rollers are really that rare ?

stephen_hannibal

A bit of both....

docbp87

There are definitely some brands that are about marketing and what not, but there are also plenty of limited edition and boutique brands who legitimately are making cigars with higher quality tobacco, rolled by more experienced rollers, and ultimately making better cigars. Pepin comes to mind. I have never smoked something he has done that didn't seem worth the price or hype.

kuzi16

jship079:

Do you think limited edition and boutiquie brands do these just to make a more expensive cigar or do you think the tabacco and quility rollers are really that rare ?

many "boutique" lines are made by brands that are far from "boutique"

Gurkha and Rocky Patel come to mind.

those are not boutique brands.

however, some of the limited editions out there are worth it and are priced correctly. the real test comes from you though. if you feel that it is the right price for that cigar, then its worth it.

Fourtotheflush

I think it definately has to do with quality control and they cannot get the same tobacco year to year. they are buying from farms and or resellers and as the market fluctuates and the quality of the tobacco fluctuates it determines the blends. Im thinking that the big houses have locked in their tobacco contracts for X bails of Y Tobacco and the smaller 'boutique' blends and limited editions releases are using whatever is not absorbed by the standard lines. etc. Not sure if this explains it correctly or not.

Also, many of the limited edition blends are using quality aged tobacco, that they age some aspect or all of the wrapper/binder/filler and use that as their marketing for the limited edition release.