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Romeo y Julieta : Petit Royales Box of 25 / 47 ring gauge x 95mm length / LAT AGO 19 This is my first review on FOH or on any forum to be frank. Well I posted a power tool set once on craigslist and that turned into a sh&t show. I had people asking to trade everything from a Walmart gift card to a old prosthetic hook. Anyways, enough of my blabbering not like anyone is actually going to read this (Please read this, I want some free cigars and early access). The box came from Spain with a date of Aug 2019 & a factory code "LAT", placing the box in Sancti Spiritus province and the factory of Taguasco. The cigars all have a nice oily shine and deep red hue, the smell coming from the box is your classic Cuban barnyard hay & tobacco. I don't have a foot fetish, well depends on the foot or feet more like. But the smell was a coco, hay, spice. Cigar was nicely rolled dense with a firm give. The cigar has a solid 4 years of age. The cigar opened with a woody cedar, light pepper, and sweet dark chocolate chip. I did toast this cigar and the burn line was great no issues, smoke production was good with a nice body. Good medium draw. First Third The end of the first third was filled with cedar, the spice toned completely down, and the sweet dark chocolate turned into a cherry liqueur chocolate. Ash fell off after the first third but that's partly my fault I was rewatching The Shield and the streaming service on my iPad kept freezing up and of course, I was impatient and kept trying to refresh until my iPad, my drink, and the ash all fell. Strength at this point remains Mild. Second Third In the second half; the cherry liqueur chocolate remains and turns a bitter dark chocolate with the wood notes turning into a charred oak/cedar. There is an almond/walnut nut note in the second half but it lays behind the wood and chocolate, it usually shows for me during the retro-hale. At this point, the cigar is at Mild-Medium. Final Third The burn line needed some touch-ups in the final third, the weather cools down and gets a little dewy, I live on the coast so this happens often while I'm smoking. Also, a mouse decided to make an appearance during this time so I spent a couple minutes throwing rocks to keep it away from my blueberry bushes. Anyhow cigar stayed about the same, notes of oak/cedar, bitter chocolate, and a coffee note are introduced with some pepper coming back into the picture. Cigar in the final third ends at a medium. Overall this was a good mild-medium cigar, smoke time was just under 1hr. I think this cigar will be prime at 5 years of age, there is still a vegetal green note to it that I think will be gone at 5 years and help the main notes shine. Overall I would rate this cigar a 3.5 out of 5 Thanks for listening to my TED talk. Cheers and Happy New Year. -Hobo_Lobo

And of course the US embargo is to be blamed for all misfortunes .... What a tired bad sad joke 😞 --------------------- The Habanos company is doing well while Cuban tobacco producers are broke The company obtained last year 507 million dollars of benefits Luz Escobar, Havana | May 05, 2021 https://www.14ymedio.com/cuba/empresa-Habanos-productores-cubanos-tabaco_0_3088491128.html The Spanish-Cuban company Habanos obtained last year 507 million dollars in profits, 4% less than in 2019. The figure was given by the company itself this Tuesday, at the inauguration of the virtual event Habanos World Days, which replaces the Festival del Habano, whose twenty-third edition was canceled due to the covid pandemic, and with which the official press has turned. For state media, the company "consolidated its international leadership of premium cigars (made entirely by hand)" and the 2020 revenues are quite an achievement "despite the circumstances of the pandemic and the ban on selling its products in the US by the laws of the economic blockade ". It is not the first time that the authorities use the United States embargo as the cause of the decline in production. They already did it a few days ago, at a time when dire forecasts are looming for the 2020-2021 tobacco campaign, which began last October. José Liván Font Bravo, first vice president of the Tabacuba Business Group, assured then that a part of the plantations will not receive fertilizer "due to the brakes imposed by the fence", in clear reference to the embargo. However, far from the foci of the propaganda provided by the festival, in which the state media assure that more than 5,000 companies from more than 120 countries around the world participate, and the justifications of the authorities, the peasants are clear that the main problems of tobacco production are rather the consequence of economic "mismanagement" and the implementation of the so-called Ordering Task. So thinks Nestor Pérez, from the La Isleña farm, founded at the end of the 19th century in San Juan y Martínez, in Vueltabajo (Pinar del Río). In conversation with 14ymedio, Pérez explains that in his territory they have not had problems with fertilizer, and that the doses they have bought have allowed them and many producers to "develop the campaign." But in addition, the producer, who is 37 years old and has been working in the fields since he was 15, specifies: "The United States is not the supplier of fertilizers." On his farm, for example, they use fertilizers from other countries, such as China or the Netherlands. The producer concedes that the covid and the weather had "adverse effects" on the campaign. "In Río Seco, which is part of the tobacco massif that was in quarantine for a long time," he says, "entire plantations were lost." Also, in November, "there was high rainfall" when the seeds were planted. However, they were not the primary pitfalls. "In Vueltabajo there is a growing number of cooperatives that have been contracting, due to their mismanagement or due to company demands, debts from past eras, something that affects the management of the same cooperatives with resources and supplies," he explains to this diary. Added to the debts, he says, "the bad management of the seedbeds by the State", a task that although they have been assuming "the producers is still in the hands of the State for the most part." In those, he continues, the Ordering Task arrived, for him, "the most important point": "For the peasants, the so-called Day Zero was not Day Zero; we had not prepared a price, and a price was decreed without having the token cost "(the model where the data necessary to calculate the planned unit cost of a product or service provision is collected). Pérez says that they were assured that prices would be established in about two months, but January and February, when the harvest peak occurs, they were thrown at them "without a cost token, without a credit extension." The main consequence was that the producers could not pay the workers "because they did not have the credit extension until the beginning of April." When they had the cost card, they saw that the credits were increased, but that the prices of dry tobacco doubled, from 2,560 to 5,700 per quintal. The generalized increase in prices from the Ordering Task, he assures him, had a great impact on the peasants. "There are the inputs, which increased 10 and 15 times their value, that cost was like a shock for the producer. They said they were going to make a new price proposal, but still nothing, it continues the same as they put at the beginning of the year" , the Mint. "In my opinion and that of many in this area", he summarizes, the Ordering Task has been "disastrous" and "catastrophic", since "it has led us to face the peak of the campaign with credit based on a previous price and deficient in 70% ". "It left people without money," he concludes, "that is the biggest obstacle, it is not the blockade."

Just wondering if there is a pattern or theory on why certain countries get special edition cigars, boxes, jars, editions....etc And would love to see a picture of what you've acquired! http://www.habanos.com/en/el-mundo-del-habano/producciones-especiales/?age-verified=f03c57e6fd