Limited Edition Question

[K444HEP]

Morning Everyone,

I stumbled across this on the Cgars website:

Limited Edition cigars are made from specially selected tobacco leaves that have all been aged for a minimum of two years.

Is this the case for all LE sticks? So, if you are smoking a 2014 Boli SC, the tobacco is actually 2012? Or are there exceptions to this? Interested to hear your responses as there does not appear to be a definitive answer online.

[gojira]

Here's the text from the cuban cigar website:

In 2000, Habanos S.A. introduced the Limited Edition ( Edici?n Limitada ) Series for their premium brands. This series comprises cigar vitolas that were not in current production.

Initially, the cigars were manufactured using two year old aged wrappers from the upper level of the plant, to produce a unique darker colour. Since 2007 all of the tobacco (wrapper, binder, & filler) is aged for two years.

The 2001 year cigars were not released until early to mid 2002.

There was also a 2001 Limited Edition Vegas Robaina Prominente gifted to attendees at the 2002 Habano Festival, to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Vegas Robaina brand. Only 800 of these cigars were produced.

In 2002 there were no Limited Edition releases. This was probably due to the late release of the 2001 LE cigars and the lack of suitable two-year old wrapper tobacco, as Habanos SA may have underestimated the success of the Limited Edition concept.

In 2006 (the fifth anniversary of this series) three of the most popular Limited Edition cigars were re-issued.

[Simon Bolivar]

So the next question is: Does the aging of the tobacco for 2yrs before rolling make much difference to the way the cigar smokes in on release (you'd think so) or more importantly in 3-5yrs time, when most will be smoked? I think this is less likely but with the Maduro wrappers giving a different flav, direct comparison with similarly aged sticks of the same brand is difficult.

Of course pre- the late '90's boom, I believe all Cuban tobacco was aged before rolling, as still happens with many NC's.

[K444HEP]

Thanks both for your input; so any LE after 2007 will have definitely been rolled with aged tobacco. Very interesting.