What do you guys think about this?

Interesting!!! Sounds like a sales pitch to me.

try some man, let us know.

yea its a scam, "pre-castro cuban seeds?" that is a pile of steaming BS, almost all the NC cigars on the market use cuban seeded tobacco. This isn't something new, just another company that makes dog rockets trying to find a way to sell their crap to people who don't know any better. Don't bite the bait.

Well, post-embargo Cuban seeds planted outside of Cuba produce tobacco that tastes far different than that which is produced from the same seeds in Cuban soil. So I don't see why pre-embargo seeds would give you any hint of what Havana cigars were like back then, especially since there's no way to reproduce the soil conditions that existed then, even if you were in Cuba. Nice marketing but I would pass.

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Originally posted by Fedor Skywalker:
Interesting!!! Sounds like a sales pitch to me.

try some man, let us know.

No way! YOU try some!

Almost as bad as this.

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Originally posted by appa69:

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Originally posted by Fedor Skywalker:
Interesting!!! Sounds like a sales pitch to me.

try some man, let us know.

No way! YOU try some!

lol!

Go for some singles and let us know. But they are even more expensive than real Cuban cigars.

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Originally posted by appa69:
Almost as bad as this.

In a word "A CROCK". Ok that's 2 words.

Yeah I've seen that site. Interesting, but at those prices you can get the real thing.

I agree its interesting. Personally I would not go as far as to call it a scam. Course I also would not buy them so . . .

Yeah I'd say both are scams. I'd rather spend my money on a good bundled cigar.

Methinks you'd be better off spending your money on an airline to ticket to Mexico City, give me a call & I'll take you to LCDH & buy the real thing. Then we'll go to the San Ángel Inn restaurant & have wonderful drinks & dinner & end the evening with more drinks & with a few REAL Habanos.

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Originally posted by appa69:
Almost as bad as this.

And I'm not really sure "E.R." is a good name for a cigar brand... Especially if they call their vitolas names like the "ECG", the "DOA" or the "IV".

Where do you guys find this stuff?

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Originally posted by PaulMx:
Methinks you'd be better off spending your money on an airline to ticket to Mexico City, give me a call & I'll take you to LCDH & buy the real thing. Then we'll go to the San Ángel Inn restaurant & have wonderful drinks & dinner & end the evening with more drinks & with a few REAL Habanos.

I'm in.

The main thing is, the flavor is not in the Cuban seed or the leaf that is grown with Cuban seed. The flavor is in the mineral, nutrient rich soil of Cuba.
Read the latest issue of JR's catalog with the description of the Bering cigar being tested.
It came up with a 90% probability of Cuban origin.
Bering taste nothing like a true Habano that's for sure. But the Cuban seed can be traced back to it's roots in Cuba. It has the same DNA if you will.
These are just great sales pitches. Scam? no. Just a selling point.
Heck they may even be great NC cigars. Lower the price and they may have something there.

"Incomparable flavor...unmatched quality..." You see these phrases on a lot of cigar makers' websites. Pre-embargo this, pre-embargo that, old-world taste, flavors of old Havana, you've never smoked anything like this...

Expensive stuff from both of those sites! It's interesting the cigars from the first link come from Costa Rica. Now we know where those Costa Rican fake CC websites get their stuff from. Oh wait, or is it the other way around since the fake CCs are cheaper?

Lets ask if they are willing to give out a few to us so we can tell them what we think, on a public forum.

Heres another like this: http://www.hatueycigars.com/hatuey/en/semilla.htm