j0z3r:I agree Vince, I'm not looking forward to any Cuban cigars that come after the embargo is lifted, if it is indeed lifted. I've heard estimates that it would take 5 years of garbage before Cuban tobacco was near good quality if the embargo were to be lifted. It's a double edged sword at best, the lifting of the embargo makes for readily available Cuban cigars, but the downside is a cigar nobody, save for the people brought in by the stigma of smoking a Cuban, would want. I guess if this gets closer to being lifted, I'll just have to stock up while the cigars are still decent.
j0z3r:Well Gene, from the info I've read, the condition of soil in Cuba is not so great as it is now, the government just doesn't allow enough fertilizer to keep the soil viable. So even without the embargo being lifted, the condition of the soil will just continue to deteriorate. I know what you meant, but I think it would be a case of too little, too late...sooner or later they'll exhaust the growing regions, embargo or no embargo.
Rob1110:Trying to look on the bright side, a friend of mine mentioned this: the lift on the embargo may actually drive down the price of good cigars from outside of cuba because cubans would be in such high demand, at least for the first few years until people got it out of their systems and the mystique was gone.
