Original House Blends vs Current Cigar Marketing

pinotguy · 09-29-2010, 08:01 PM

Well, I'm not sure these would qualify but I would definitely recommend the House Blends that Pepin does for Cigar King/Phatash. (These are B&M's in the Phoenix, AZ area and the owner became tight with the Garcia family early on.) Anyway, he did seven different blends for them: Cuban Diplomat (OR), Cuban Diplomat Corojo Rosado, Habana Leon, Havana Soul, Hirsh y Garcia, Nacionales W, and Sancti Spiritus. The Cuban Diplomat OR, which used a CT Shade wrapper, is no longer available. Actually all of these except the Habana Leon and Hirsh y Garcia have been discontinued, but both locations have quite a bit of remaining stock of the other blends on hand.

You would be hard-pressed to find a better Pepin smoke than either the Habana Leon or H y G, IMO. Even the various Tat products would have difficult time coming out ahead of these blends.

09-29-2010, 08:01 PM	#16
pinotguy Still Watching My Back Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 200 Trading: (13)	Re: Original House Blends vs Current Cigar Marketing Well, I'm not sure these would qualify but I would definitely recommend the House Blends that Pepin does for Cigar King/Phatash. (These are B&M's in the Phoenix, AZ area and the owner became tight with the Garcia family early on.) Anyway, he did seven different blends for them: Cuban Diplomat (OR), Cuban Diplomat Corojo Rosado, Habana Leon, Havana Soul, Hirsh y Garcia, Nacionales W, and Sancti Spiritus. The Cuban Diplomat OR, which used a CT Shade wrapper, is no longer available. Actually all of these except the Habana Leon and Hirsh y Garcia have been discontinued, but both locations have quite a bit of remaining stock of the other blends on hand. You would be hard-pressed to find a better Pepin smoke than either the Habana Leon or H y G, IMO. Even the various Tat products would have difficult time coming out ahead of these blends.