Kingantz
Growing too fast.
I bought some La Riqueza Petit Robustos about a week ago and after a few days decided to give one a go. I grab one out the bundle and after punching the cap find the draw is as if there's no tobacco at all, completely open. I smoke about a quarter inch, am not enjoying it at all, so put it down. I come back later and decide to dissect the thing just for kicks, not expecting to find what I did at all. Here is what was in the cigar:
At this point I get to thinking maybe it was just a huge coincidence that the first cigar I picked was full of this crap, or was it? I decide I'm going to go randomly pick another and sure enough the second one feels extremely light and after punching it the draw is like sucking through a straw, completely open. I peel off the wrapper and set it aside, start on the binder, and as soon as I pull back the first part of it pieces of tobacco start falling out. I pull off the first piece of binder and this picture is what was underneath (hard to really see how trashy the tobacco is in the pic)
This is another piece of the binder, check out the stem.
There are pieces of longfiller, and as I'm pulling them apart bits and pieces of tobacco is falling out
Pulling the rest apart, a large amount of powdery like crap just dumps out along with other bits and pieces...
...and a couple huge stems.
This is everything that fell out of the pieces of longfiller...
...and this is the long filler pieces.
I am completely and thoroughly disappointed with what came out of these cigar, and am very concerned all of them are the same as this one. I sent an email this morning to Tatuaje Cigars/Pete basically with all the information listed above and here is Pete's response.
Thanks for the email and I understand how this might be alarming. The loose tobacco you see is normal from the bunching process. The tobacco is compressed in a mold and breakage will happen. Sometimes more or less depending on the humidity of the material at the time of bunching. The veins or stems you found are at the base of all leaves used for the bunch. Some are larger than others depending on the thickness off the leaf. Both things are pretty normal in all cigars.
The under filled part should not be. We do our best to have perfect cigars every time but being a handmade product it's not something we have 100% control of. Unfortunately a few duds slip through the cracks and we are doing our best to avoid this.
I would recommend if you are not satisfied to return the cigars back to the vendor purchased from. I know that he had a huge sale on them which made the cigars extremely affordable and I'm sure he would gladly replace or refund you for the remaining sticks.
Thanks again for the email and mentioning your concerns.
I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but isn't the filler, binder, and wrapper all semi-damp when rolled? And, isn't the cigar compressed while it's still damp? Even boxed while still damp? There's just no way the crap that came out of these two cigars happend while being "compressed in the mold". I want to resply to his response, however wanted to get others thoughts as well.
At this point I get to thinking maybe it was just a huge coincidence that the first cigar I picked was full of this crap, or was it? I decide I'm going to go randomly pick another and sure enough the second one feels extremely light and after punching it the draw is like sucking through a straw, completely open. I peel off the wrapper and set it aside, start on the binder, and as soon as I pull back the first part of it pieces of tobacco start falling out. I pull off the first piece of binder and this picture is what was underneath (hard to really see how trashy the tobacco is in the pic)
This is another piece of the binder, check out the stem.
There are pieces of longfiller, and as I'm pulling them apart bits and pieces of tobacco is falling out
Pulling the rest apart, a large amount of powdery like crap just dumps out along with other bits and pieces...
...and a couple huge stems.
This is everything that fell out of the pieces of longfiller...
...and this is the long filler pieces.
I am completely and thoroughly disappointed with what came out of these cigar, and am very concerned all of them are the same as this one. I sent an email this morning to Tatuaje Cigars/Pete basically with all the information listed above and here is Pete's response.
Thanks for the email and I understand how this might be alarming. The loose tobacco you see is normal from the bunching process. The tobacco is compressed in a mold and breakage will happen. Sometimes more or less depending on the humidity of the material at the time of bunching. The veins or stems you found are at the base of all leaves used for the bunch. Some are larger than others depending on the thickness off the leaf. Both things are pretty normal in all cigars.
The under filled part should not be. We do our best to have perfect cigars every time but being a handmade product it's not something we have 100% control of. Unfortunately a few duds slip through the cracks and we are doing our best to avoid this.
I would recommend if you are not satisfied to return the cigars back to the vendor purchased from. I know that he had a huge sale on them which made the cigars extremely affordable and I'm sure he would gladly replace or refund you for the remaining sticks.
Thanks again for the email and mentioning your concerns.
I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but isn't the filler, binder, and wrapper all semi-damp when rolled? And, isn't the cigar compressed while it's still damp? Even boxed while still damp? There's just no way the crap that came out of these two cigars happend while being "compressed in the mold". I want to resply to his response, however wanted to get others thoughts as well.
