Cuban disappointment?

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by Noodles

This is not true. Custom rolled abound.

They do not "abound" in the sense described in this thread (ie. major manufacturers making commercially-marketed blends). There is a very small number of manufacturers who have been granted exception and offer Cuban leaf in a non-Habanos product, commercially identified as such.

Originally Posted by Noodles

I know of at least one non-cuban manufacturer who has bales and bales of cuban tobacco in his warehouse.

We'll talk again when this manufacturer becomes able to acquire new harvest leaf and identify it in the market as Cuban tobacco without facing the legal retaliation of Habanos, SA.