Yeah, absolutely, and it took me doing the "internet thing" with the right crowd to find out about the "white ash" thing, too. Turns out the "white ash" is nothing more than cosmetic surgery. Heyyyy, no wonder those 51 year old Hollywood/rock star chicks look so effable, well, same thing with the "white ash."
I was miseducated for the first two or three years of my cigar smoking experience by the catalog from "the 'T' word." They push the idea that the white ash is "highly coveted." Turns out that "highly coveted" crap got back to the growers, or perhaps they figured out FIRST that "white ash" would be highly coveted, because it's so attractive. Either way, gullible Americans, spurred on by "The Cigar Boom" of the 1992-97 period came to view the "white ash" as "highly coveted."
Pure, 100%, uncut Brahma Bullcrap. A white ash means they threw a lot of magnesium into the soil to make you go ooooohhhhhh!!!!!
As for black ash, I've never heard about that. I'd like to know more about that cigar, because I first started smoking The Griffins back in about '97, the one with the light Connecticut shade wrapper, and always loved them. I forget the name they gave the size, but it was 7 1/2 x 50.
This sounds like it might be one of the different releases of The Griffins line, which is in fact, put out by Davidoff.
Last, but not least, since black is my favorite color, I'd love a cigar with a pure black ash. It's been years since I've had The Griffin's, maybe it's time to . . .
taste it again, for the very first time.