My two cents: It's not WHO you buy from, so much as THE BATCH they have on hand. As an example, I bought a quarter pound of Nic wrapper from LO; then two three weeks later a pound of the same. Different size, color, texture, thinness, flavor. I have scored four different batches of Hab 2k from WLT. The first was superb, but none of the last three were useful. I scored a batch of absolutely ginormously perfect CT shade from FXSS; then, a year and a half later, he warned me I wouldn't like 'em, and he was right. Too small and fragile for much use. I was going to mail some to Bliss, but I would be embarrassed to send them.
Suppliers are as subject to the vagaries of annual crops as we are. Plus, they are buying a bale at a time from fellows they don't know in foreign countries who speak a different language and who are used to selling two freight cars at a time to their good drinking buddies and close cousins.
It's a crap shoot.
Best wrapper I have now is Ec seco shade from LO, Mata from LO, and PA broad from Butcher. Have no decent H2k or CT. Next year might be the other way round. I'm getting the impression I need to stockpile more wrapper than filler. When I find a decent leaf, stash it away.
