Where is the complexity?

[polarbear]

Personally I find complexity to be less of a concern to me

I have never considered myself to be an aficionado of Cuban to tobacco having spent most of my formative cigar smoking years smoking NCs but I've always looked at complexity from this point of view:

If I am smoking a cigar that displays the 'trademark' flavors of that Marca, why would I want those flavors to change throughout the cigars?

I mean, Montecristos will always represent coffee and cream to me, so when I am feeling like that kind of profile why wish for it to change after the first third of the cigar? I do enjoy when underlying flavors change throughout the cigar but the basis of the profile should always remain. I don't mind when my coffee has hints of chocolate and then morphes into toasted tobacco but if the coffee disappears completely throughout the cigar then the reason I reached for it also goes

[Smallclub]

If I am smoking a cigar that displays the 'trademark' flavors of that Marca, why would I want those flavors to change throughout the cigars?

I mean, Montecristos will always represent coffee and cream to me, so when I am feeling like that kind of profile why wish for it to change after the first third of the cigar?

Maybe because that's good cigars are supposed to do, but "change" doesn't mean "loosing its unique character".

There is a reason the cubans or the spanish created the concept of "Foin/Divin/Purin" for the 3 thirds, and there is a reason good torcedores know how to adjust the rise in strenght/intensity with pieces of leaves…

[mikek]

I think it comes down to many reasons,that show A big varience in the wrapper! The reason a lot of the long skinnies have been DC'd.