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Can anyone help with that?
Thanks, Bonneville
Thanks, Bonneville
A recent American tragedy is the story of Judges Cave cigars, from F.D. Grave & Sons (makers of Muniemaker cigars). Judges Cave used to be pure CT seedleaf and broadleaf. They were true American-style cigars. They tasted and smelled like American-style cigars. Unfortunately, in order to chase a perception that all cigar smokers want Caribbean-style cigars, F.D. Grave moved their production to the Dominican Republic, and eventually replaced all the American tobacco with (much cheaper to grow) Dominican tobacco.
I think I have never tried American cigars, but if I understand DeluxeStogie, I should be able to make my own if I grow the right seeds (I will grow Little Dutch and PA Red this year), so I should be able to taste it
I hope I will have sucess with my grow this year !! So many things to try !!!
I smoked cigars from Cuba (my favorites), Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Italy, and maybe others ? And what I like the most is that every country offers something different, there are very enjoyable tobacco from everywhere (and there is also crap everywhere).
F.D. Grave used to offer a Perfecto frontmark that was machine made, but with long filler. It was their last CT cigar still made with long filler. Do you know if FX Smiths Sons made the F.D. Grave CT Perfecto, and if so, do they still offer it under some other guise?
EDIT: The cigar magazines abjured American style cigars. The Aficionado crowd only rated Caribbean-style cigars with encouraging rating numbers. So it's not surprising that American style cigar sales plummeted in the late 1990s. They also managed to do the same with Te Amo (Mexican) cigars, which had booming sales until the month when Cigar Aficionado panned them. When the handful of "expert" tasters for a slick magazine with expensive advertising proceeded to rate all cigars according to their own parochial tastes, a practice which drove the disastrous "cigar boom," many unique, regional cigar types from across the globe dropped of the cliff. Although some of those on the losing end of the pseudo-objective rating process deserved oblivion, the loss of many others is a real pity.
I appreciate the offer, but I've already taken you up on an identical offer several years ago. Thanks again for the tasty FX perfectos.No I don't, Bob. I'll ask. They called it the Connecticut Perfecto then? Never heard of a machine made long filler. Tought to understand how a machine would handle that.
Shoot me your addy and let me send you some FX fectos.
No I don't, Bob. I'll ask. They called it the Connecticut Perfecto then?
I wonder what all those gazillion old cigar rolling machines are doing these days. There must be (or once have been) tens of thousands of them left over from closed factories in the US. I can picture a spare bedroom with a machine buncher, a machine roller and a lot of well-filled shelves of cigars.
Bob
Do you know if FX Smiths Sons made the F.D. Grave CT Perfecto, and if so, do they still offer it under some other guise?