Your Cuban Cigar Industry Darwin Award Nominations for 2016

[El Presidente]

Let's define the "Darwin Award" as "own goals" or "shooting themselves in the foot" moments of 2016.  Tongue in cheek...of course 

 

There are a couple of clangers that come immediately to mind but my favourite was the Montecristo 80th release by Habanos. 

• 30,000 boxes announced 
• Two years late in arriving
• Estimated less than 1000 boxes produced so far.....and no timeline if anymore will see the light of day 

When I raised this in Havana last month the answer was " Oh, but we have released them". 

The smartest thing Habanos did was not numbering them 

 

[MPS]

I haven't seen the RyJ Gran Reserva at all. Shouldn't the Hoyo Epi 2 Reserva be released already by now as well? Looks like they should just skip a year in order to catch up. 

[JohnS]

Yes, did it take Habanos S.A two whole years to number and release 2000 boxes of Diplomáticos Bushidos? (Great cigar though!) 

[Nino]

My very special Cuban cigar industry Darwin Award goes to whoever had the brilliant idea of charging 6 CUC to be able to enter the Casa del Tabaco at La Cabaña fortress starting Nov. 1st. this year by claiming the shop is "part of the fortress".

Now the place is empty, hardly no sales whatsoever, staff happy to drink cafecito and watch tv doing nothing and Cueto and other staff cursing the idea of charging an entrance fee but not able to change anything as the people in charge of the fortress won't realize their foolish idea hurts their cigar business.

It would be easy to charge entrance to the fortress 10 foot further inside or use common sense that people are only going to the Casa del Tabaco and not into the fortress - but no, let's charge an entry ticket it as it has been ordered from "above"...

One hand collecting some cookies ( and seriously pissing off cigar buyers ) - the other hand losing thousands in sales.

Darwin, throw some brain down into the fortress administration ... it might help.

[Fuzz]

2 hours ago, nino said:

My very special Cuban cigar industry Darwin Award goes to whoever had the brilliant idea of charging 6 CUC to be able to enter the Casa del Tabaco at La Cabaña fortress starting Nov. 1st. this year by claiming the shop is "part of the fortress".

Now the place is empty, hardly no sales whatsoever, staff happy to drink cafecito and watch tv doing nothing and Cueto and other staff cursing the idea of charging an entrance fee but not able to change anything as the people in charge of the fortress won't realize their foolish idea hurts their cigar business.

It would be easy to charge entrance to the fortress 10 foot further inside or use common sense that people are only going to the Casa del Tabaco and not into the fortress - but no, let's charge an entry ticket it as it has been ordered from "above"...

One hand collecting some cookies ( and seriously pissing off cigar buyers ) - the other hand losing thousands in sales.

Darwin, throw some brain down into the fortress administration ... it might help.

If they haven't sold that box of Monte 80th by now, I guess they won't ever after the entrance fee is applied.

[oliverdst]

The whole launch schedule (in the last five years).

[kuma]

The demise of the Behike's!

[NSXCIGAR]

Let's see...

RA Phonecio 35s that are officially claimed to be all exclusively rolled at El Laguito but have TOS codes

Hoyo Anejados (and the entire Anejados prorgam)

Party Capitols--??

JLP Petit Cetros that are consistently as good or better than the majority of the premium sticks I smoke

MdO#2 MIA for 2 years

Dip 2 being the only cigar in the lineup

[Smallclub]

RyJ Club Kings (proposed 2015 release, not yet available) as if the world needed one more mareva in the RyJ line…

[TheMonk]

1 hour ago, Smallclub said:

RyJ Club Kings (proposed 2015 release, not yet available) as if the world needed one more mareva in the RyJ line…

Very true, the RyJ line really is a bit of a mess nowadays... Too many similar offerings, and not enough distinctive flavours, IMO.

[Bohn007]

On 12/15/2016 at 2:38 AM, NSXCIGAR said:

Let's see...

RA Phonecio 35s that are officially claimed to be all exclusively rolled at El Laguito but have TOS codes

I haven't seen TOS but I have two boxes that are SOM. 

[El Presidente]

2 hours ago, Bohn007 said:

I haven't seen TOS but I have two boxes that are SOM. 

Interesting indeed 

[ayepatz]

Gobstoppers. I know that many folks on here are size queens, but equally as many are not. Please, for the love of God, Habanos, can we have some early 40s ring gauges back?

[NSXCIGAR]

On 12/18/2016 at 11:46 PM, Bohn007 said:

I haven't seen TOS but I have two boxes that are SOM. 

Indeed, I misspoke--SOM. I am not aware of TOS on the Phonecios and was in fact citing your thread:

My post will be edited to reflect SOM, not TOS