At least once a week a customer will walk into my brick and mortar retail shop and complain that they had 2-3 cigars in their latest box purchase that had “burn issues”. As a tobacconist and avid cigar smoker of many different kinds, sizes, and brands I take for granted that not every cigar burns perfectly. Less expensive cigars tend to have more burn issues then more expensive ones but at some point regardless of what you are smoking you will come across a cigar or two that burn uneven.
I’m just coming down off the high of the IPCPR Cigar Trade Show in Orlando Florida. This week long parade of new cigars and accessories literally had my head spinning. As a buyer for one of, if not the largest selling shops in the world, can you just imagine what I go through? Everyone is excited about their new brands and new items and so am I, but when you take thousands of new products and put them all together and are force fed them by some of the best salesman in the country one after one, day after day, something gets lost. Ten cigars in by noon on day one will make what seems to be paradise into brutally obnoxious. And some great new cigars are wasted on me…