F#%k the LGC Revolution where's my regular production at?

[NSXCIGAR]

I agree with most of what you have said bar the last paragraph.

PCC decided to punp out LGC Revolution, and not HSA. If it works out for them them then good for them.

However, whether it is PCC or HSA or any distributor/retailer/FOH, mistakes will be made. That is the price of being in business and the reality is you need to get 8 things in 10 right. 2 you will screw up. If you only screw up 2 you are doing well and it is not fatal.

Business has always been thus. There is no definitive rulebook.

True, the distributors do specifically request the RE desired. But HSA ostensibly approves, develops and produces it, and they can always veto the request or say no. Production of cigars like the Revolution, LFDC Siboney and Dip Excelencias to me are just an acknowledgement that HSA is and has been focusing away from regular production for a while now.

I actually don't think the Revolution or any of these REs are "mistakes" per se. The REs generally sell out and at a premium, please the distributors and many of the distributors customers. My point was just that HSA chooses to produce a cigar in a marca that's regular production line is arguably being neglected.

HSA really isn't screwing up too many of their individual cigars anymore excluding the Anejados & Maduro lines. As always, I'm happy when they produce anything of high quality, special releases or regular production.

It also seems to me selling aged cigars should be a fairly decentralized sales strategy, meaning the demand for that type of unique product should be assessed at the distributor/retailer level. That's just one more reason I doubt the legitimacy of the Anejados program. It's very difficult to set out to design a cigar for a program like that. Different cigars age differently. There's no record of anything like that being done with Cuban cigars before, and the fact that the quality of the end product is highly questionable makes me think the cigars came first, then the program--not the other way around as it should have been.