Is the Drew Estate Larutan a relabeled Natural?

[Boudie]

I'm looking over the cigars offered at the Louisiana Barn Smoke and the Larutan NDB and the Larutan Dirt Torpedo are included in the cigar list. I can find no reviews on these cigars. Has the Natural been relabeled? The descriptions are very similar for the Natural Dirt and Larutan Dirt Torpedo. I can find no information on the NDB, just size (7x44) on the DE website.

Is it just some rebranding?

 

[aaron72]

Exact same cigar. They were no longer allowed to use the Natural name, so they just reversed it. Everything else is the same.

 

[Boudie]

Kick myself in the butt for not catching this. Thanks for clearing this up but now I feel like a goob.

 

[aaron72]

Kick myself in the butt for not catching this. Thanks for clearing this up but now I feel like a goob.

Don't even worry about it, it's simple to not see the correlation with the naming.

 

[zyxwvutsr]

They were no longer allowed to use the Natural name...

Not allowed by whom?

 

[aaron72]

Not allowed by whom?

I believe it was to be compliant with FDA regulation where you can't use things like Natural or Light in the names of cigars.

 

[Boudie]

The same people that said you can't use a smiley face sucking on a cigar as a logo? Possibly?

 

[zyxwvutsr]

I believe it was to be compliant with FDA regulation where you can't use things like Natural or Light in the names of cigars.

Is there anything unnatural about it?

 

[Boudie]

Today's food marketers have successfully equated the term "Natural" with "Healthy". Correct or incorrect that's what the labels have evolved to mean.

 

[drewestatejoe]

The above is correct, we changed the name from Natural to Larutan(Natural Backwards!) Same cigar and nothing has changed.