Cohiba supply rumours?

[oliverdst]

I did a bit of research in our own supply here in MTL and:

Most of my línea clasica stock is 2013 except all Espys are FEB 2015, Plenty of Nov 14 siglo I and DIC 14 siglo IV.

Also just got some FEB 2015 SIGLO II this week as well

What about quality?

[Strada]

What about quality?

late 14 and 15 are on par with what I have seen in the last months. Great boxes and mieh boxes. Rarely anything in between.

[oliverdst]

late 14 and 15 are on par with what I have seen in the last months. Great boxes and mieh boxes. Rarely anything in between.

Not bad. I am not a Cohiba buyer but it seems good.

[TomF]

I bought a 25ct SLB of Siglo III's in April (MUL DIC13). I began smoking them right away, which may have been a mistake. I've smoked about 10 of them and the flavor has been spot on, but of those 10 at least 6 were either very tight or totally plugged. Very disappointing. I'm going to let the rest sit for another few months and try again, and I won't be buying any more Cohibas again anytime soon. There are too many other stellar smokes out there to put up with that crap.

[oliverdst]

So many plugged is concerning.

[CanuckSARTech]

Here is what I have in recent months. All rumour mill. Nothing definitive.

Shortage of leaf

Leaf being sold abroad for making cigarettes

El laguito being renovated in anticipation of 50th anniversario

Cohibas are being stockpiled in Cuba in anticipation of US visitors and will likely mean a significant price increase.

I heard similar to this back in Feb/Mar, aside from the leaf-to-cigarettes thing.

The renovation thing - same as Andy quoted earlier, and same source/locale.

BHK - next to no medio tempo of quality available. Huge backlog there - similar to what Frank mentioned, I heard no BHK until near the end of this year, after production kicks back in around this time / summer time.