It is unfortunately the state of the market currently - at least unfortunately from my perspective. I prefer a smaller vitola and a smaller RG - a corona or panatela or lancero - but the American market gravitates towards "bigger is better" which is why we're seeing an abundance of 6x60 and 7x70s, etc hit the market.Funny because anything above a 50 never seems to get too much love here at botl (unless super premium cigar: behike, mfle, etc etc)...but the 50s-60s rg are so popular with the masses right now. I do have to say though that toro is in top 3 sizes in my book
You bring up a valid point, though. Does Antonio want wider appeal or to market to the hardcore smokers who would frequent a forum like this? I can tell you that at my local - one that has Antonio's line featured - the guys sometimes make comments when I smoke my lanceros and coronas while they're fighting over the larger RGs.
Where do you live in NJ? Very abundant in the northern part of the state (north of the Driscoll).Cool, glad you agree with me... I mainly feel that the CG is an important size that has a bigger market for the PL. I've never even had anything from Reinado, so I really can't comment on what I think the blend will be like in these sizes, but a CG would probably sell better than a PL. Also just looked up the size of the original GER, its a 5x55, so I think that a toro or toro gordo wouldn't be terribly diverse from the current size.Pretty much everything I came here to say! Only difference is the PL is probably a bit more intriguing to me than Fnord implies.