Class A and Class B cigars

[Eins]

A longtime cigar smoking friend told me that Cuba exports the better quality Class A cigars of their brands to Spain, Switzerland and a third country that I forgot, while the rest of the world get the inferior Class B.
Reasons are long and good trade relationships with the first three vs. the others.

Class A are supposedly made with longer aged tobacco (and whatever can improve quality).

What's your take on it?

 

[Kento]

If that's true, I sure hope that third country is somewhere in the Far East. No reason really, just a pointless hope. :whistling:

 

[Eins]

Kento,
It was not and I don't care either way :whistling: :whistling:

 

[sir-smokes-a-lot]

Not as far as I know.
There are two different wrapper clasifications given to the cigars.

EMS - English Market Selection. These cigars have the lightest wrappers, as those are the style preffered by the English. So, the cigars in the UK should have, in gen., lighter wrappers than elsewhere.

SMS - Spanish Market Selection. Same as above, but with the darkest shade of wrappers

 

[cigarsarge]

I've heard that was true. A pretty reliable source told me.

 

[Eins]

The third country is Canada, after Spain and Switzerland.