Castle, I am especially interested in hearing your thoughts on this. I read a great article in the most recent issue of smoke which was an interview with Don Alejandro Robaina. In there they quatoed a statistic that only 10% of leaf grown in cuba is used for habanos and the rest goes to cigarettes.
I found this statistic to be startling. This means that there is a lot of bad leaf grown in Cuba. I know they are maximizing production currently with increasing demand.
Wouldnt Cuba opening and the fall of comunism have its downside for the guys that love the cubans and have access to them now? With such a huge surge in demand you would think the temptation of more $$$ would drive people to start using some the rejected 90% of the crop. Not to mention the prices. For the guys that smoke cubans now, I think they are in pretty good shape. If Cuba traded freely with the US I think it woudl be a bigger problem for the guys that love them now.
What are your thoughts?
I found this statistic to be startling. This means that there is a lot of bad leaf grown in Cuba. I know they are maximizing production currently with increasing demand.
Wouldnt Cuba opening and the fall of comunism have its downside for the guys that love the cubans and have access to them now? With such a huge surge in demand you would think the temptation of more $$$ would drive people to start using some the rejected 90% of the crop. Not to mention the prices. For the guys that smoke cubans now, I think they are in pretty good shape. If Cuba traded freely with the US I think it woudl be a bigger problem for the guys that love them now.
What are your thoughts?