Quick Answers:
- Undercrown FPs were made exclusively for Holland - we have a great retailer over there who is a personal friend of the JD and the company and because we have been unable to ship them the past LP Flying Pig releases due to extremely limited supplies these were made at their request.
- Our goal with Undercrown is to keep the brand in that $7 - $9 price point, but as soon as you make it into a FP formatted vitola it becomes a $12 minimum smoke, so releasing the same in the US changes the desired MSRP dramatically. I can already hear the screams of gouging...
- We have a very limited number of pairs capable of rolling the Flying Pig format correctly. Rolling a few boxes for a friend overseas is one thing, but making the 3,500+ boxes needed even for a very limited release in the US market would require us to stop making LP Feral Flying Pigs altogether.
Doesn't mean it won't happen, but it isn't as simple as some people wish it were (including people here at DE) and it has a real impact on production and cost.
The bottom line is it is a very high quality, handmade product and we are forced to make choices constantly of what to do with limited production resources. It is not just a matter of flipping a switch.
Fwiw, we held back a little of this batch production with the intent of sharing it with people during the 2013 Cigar Safaris. That is assuming JD doesn't smoke them all before then...
BR,
Steve Saka
President, Drew Estate
