Choosing a new cigar
MickeyD_1
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We all have a country, region, wrapper, or vitola we enjoy, perhaps as a favorite.
When browsing for something new to try, do you find the cigar’s band design attracts your curiosity or has an influence to your choice of a cigar?
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I look at how strong it might be. I do have some milder ones for the morning, but I usually like the fuller cigars.
I browse the what ya smoking threads. Pretty sure no one but @VegasFrank is a paid shill.
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To answer the OP's question... I like cigar bands; sometimes it's the beautiful art, sometimes it's the band's simplicity that attracts. But the band never has input into the buying decision.
I know what tobacco's I enjoy, and I know which factories I enjoy the work from. Bands and art work great to catch the eye, but it ultimately comes down to what's in it, and where is it from.
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Wouldn't that be considered Central Idaho?
Kind of actually in Montana.
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Oh yeah, the question.
Construction and wrapper.
Visually, I like a cigar that looks right.
Not all mucked up, like some crappy cheap cigars.
There are certain tobaccos I know I like and certain ones that I can tolerate in the filler of binder, but not the wrapper.
More often than not, I buy a couple, to see how they are. If they suck, I don't buy them again.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Some cigar bands are indeed pretty bad @ss but wouldn't affect buying choice(s).
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I tried the Ave Maria and manowar partly due to the bands. Also because of the reviews. Generally I go by wrapper and then binder/filler.
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I don't know what you're talking about.
I go brand not band. Padron? Yes. AJ? Yes. Then I go country. Nicaragua. Then I go wrapper. Connecticut? Probably not. Then I go strength. Light? Medium? Probably not.
When all else fails, I go recommendations. Did @EgoBoundary recommend it? I'm buying it. Is @rsherman24 smoking it? Pass.
Then I go foot band. As that fart smeller @peter4jc once said, I've never had a bad cigar that had an orange foot band.
Done.
Bands play little into my buying decision, but I hate cigars that have huge bands so I tend to avoid them.
Price, filler, wrapper, binder, and availability.
Manufacturer/blender, wrapper, binder, and then filler. Bands/boxes has zero impact on buying, although I don't particularly care for goofy, corny or gimmicky bands.
just bought some cigars based solely on the band, it has a crow on it and they have a special spot in my heart, as do rats and mice. Someone should make a cigar with mice on it, I'd buy a box.
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