So I was in Jamaica for my honeymoon and, naturally, picked up a few cuban sticks from the resorts's shop. One of the sticks was a Cohiba that had a two-toned wrapper (looked like a candy cane with the light and dark wrappers). Does anybody have any idea what these are? It was an average smoke, but I am just trying to find out what in the hell it was. LOL.

It was definately a counterfit Cuban cigar, all of the resorts in Jamaica sell them.

Fake fake fake... Cohiba doesn't make things like Arturo Fuente's Between the Lines...

It amazes me that they go to so much trouble to "barber pole" a wrapper when such a cigar from Cuba doesn't even exist. But I guess if tourists keep buying them, they'll keep making them.

Hope you didn't pay too much.

Sounds like you got one of these sans the 40th Anniversary bands. A barber pole fauxhiba.

Hope you didn't pay too much, and congrats on the wedding. A lot of us here have been taken for a ride, so don't sweat it.

Had same or very similar cigar (band was much more like regular cohiba), Nassau, Bahamas, early May. Bought in "duty free shop", thinking this would improve chances it's genuine. Knew chances were only 50/50 that anything in there was eally cuban. But $10, what the heck. Was actually a good cigar (to me anyways), tasted a lot like a pre-embargo cuban I got in a sampler (no band - also fake?), especially the finish, which I've never found in any other cigar.

Probably wouldn't pay $10 for it again, but if I could find them for $5, I'd be all over 'em.

Pre-Embargo in a sampler??
Yep, Big time fake!!

Another day, another sucker... sorry.