I smoked a Joya De Nicaragua Antano today. I brought them 4+ years go in Nicaragua, they've been sitting in my humidor and really haven't smoked them. The cigar was fine, burn was excellent, drawl was good. Flavors were good, pepper, leather, spice, earth tones. Probably rate it a 7.5/10. Construction was excellent. When I went to remove the band, it was held with a piece of tape. Is this common? I checked the rest in the box of 20, all have tape. Any ideas?
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There was a small batch of JDNs that were mispacked long ago and JDN sent a girl to Miami to unpack, reband and repack all the boxes - she may have use the tape then.
OR...
It is not uncommon for a maker to use tape if the rings are slightly too small and they fear the glue alone will not hold the ring on the cigar... for example lets say you need to band a bunch of 56 ring gauge cigars but just ran out of 3.5" rings, you can use the 3" ones, but they don't have enough surface area for the to glue to always hold so you add tape - a maker will often do this rather than delay an import of cigars needed due to a temporary ring shortage.
Just a couple of educated guesses...
BR,
Steve Saka
CEO, DE
OR...
It is not uncommon for a maker to use tape if the rings are slightly too small and they fear the glue alone will not hold the ring on the cigar... for example lets say you need to band a bunch of 56 ring gauge cigars but just ran out of 3.5" rings, you can use the 3" ones, but they don't have enough surface area for the to glue to always hold so you add tape - a maker will often do this rather than delay an import of cigars needed due to a temporary ring shortage.
Just a couple of educated guesses...
BR,
Steve Saka
CEO, DE
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Doubtful - I do not believe they do this as they have other lesser local brands to utilize segundos.
JDN has a HUGE counterfeit problem in Nicaragua - it is the national cigar and there are knockoffs all over the place. I believe it is actually far more counterfeited than Padrons...
If you want to purchase JDN in Nicaragua you gotta be careful. Duty Free is safe - none of the other stores in the airport. Joya has their own retail location in Managua, the BEST hotels have real product, the BEST restaurants have real product, etc. etc - you really gotta pay attention as many of the fakes look pretty good.
Amazing how an answer can change when you get one more little piece of info... tape in the US on JDN = X or Y, but in Nica = Z.
BR,
STS
JDN has a HUGE counterfeit problem in Nicaragua - it is the national cigar and there are knockoffs all over the place. I believe it is actually far more counterfeited than Padrons...
If you want to purchase JDN in Nicaragua you gotta be careful. Duty Free is safe - none of the other stores in the airport. Joya has their own retail location in Managua, the BEST hotels have real product, the BEST restaurants have real product, etc. etc - you really gotta pay attention as many of the fakes look pretty good.
Amazing how an answer can change when you get one more little piece of info... tape in the US on JDN = X or Y, but in Nica = Z.
BR,
STS