'Great idea, judging a cigar by it's band. No one cares when the Brazilia and Italia lines are released, but release an America line and you've obviously got an agenda!! And by a foreign company? Good god... I hope you're staying away from those foreigners in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Honduras, too!!'
I'm unaware of any cigars coming out of the countries you listed capitalizing on our flag. I do not hail from Italy, nor from Brazil, therefore if a cigar company were to capitalize on their flag, while I might not respect it, I wouldn't feel offended by it the way that I do the America. And this from a company that goes far beyond the level of marketing hype normally put forth by cigar companies. Maybe they'll put them in a nice little neon humidor for you JHolmes. Bet you'd love that! I am not 'judging this cigar by it's [sic] band'. I am pointing out that this marks a new low for a company that stands far below others in terms of marketing schemes. My 'agenda', as you so antagonizingly put it, was to point this out, nothing more. Now I will say that I have not tasted a CAO cigar in the past eight years or so that was worth smoking twice, so I've pretty well distanced myself from their products. Therefore it did not occur to me that they were expanding their, 'Name A Cigar After A Country' line. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. It provides me the opportunity to point out that they are choosing to do this shortly after being acquired by a foreign interest. Perhaps this is merely a coincidence, but I do not believe that it is.