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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,201 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:

    Your thoughts?

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  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like them, but unless the price comes way down, when my 10-pack is done I don't see going back for more. I was on a Zoom call w/ Tim Ozgener, whose 'person' and story impressed me, so I wanted to try them. I'll call it a solid "B-" and think everyone should have it on their to-try list.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2022

    Was that Bosporus made at Tabacalera Pichardo or Tabacalera La Alianza, the factory owned by E.P. Carrillo? The production of this cigar has moved and the blend will be changed including changing from an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper to a Ecuadorian Habana 2000 wrapper. I'd be interested to hear if you smoked the old one or the new one, if you know. The old blend may still be on shelves, as far as I know.

    https://halfwheel.com/ozgener-moves-production-of-bosphorus-to-tabacalera-la-alianza/415550/

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  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    These were purchased long before the Pichardo/CH dust-up, so they have to be the original. I haven't seen the new ones and wonder if they changed the bands on them.

    Along those lines, the bands on the CH La Patissier changed from that foot band to a regular white-ish band, and it makes me wonder if CH changed the blend when they moved to another factory.

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  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,039 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The packaging on the La Patissier was changed before the split so they’ll be the same for awhile. After those sell through the blend will be different.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This article talks about the move of the Le Patissier and even shows the new bands. The article says that the blend and tobaccos will not change, but the change in factories may change processing methods and lots of tobacco which could result in a difference in taste.

    https://halfwheel.com/crowned-heads-moving-le-patissier-production-to-nasca/414826/

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  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,039 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The tobaccos have to change. They’re from different farms. I guess we’ll have to get some of each and try them side by side.

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