new pepin brand?

[Mr. Ed]

Originally Posted by taltos

He's turning into a bigger marketing whore than Rocky Patel.

I have to disagree. While Rocky's only schtick is marketing cigars, Pepin actually blends and works on his product. He is a real cigar guy and stands behind what he makes. All of his cigars are average at worst () and when comparing all of the cigars made by Pepin and distributed by Rocky, I don't think the quality comes close.

Will this new cigar blow anyone's socks off? I don't know, but he's had some really good releases in the past year including the Cubao, LAdC, and My Father.

Originally Posted by Mr. Ed

I have to disagree. While Rocky's only schtick is marketing cigars, Pepin actually blends and works on his product. He is a real cigar guy and stands behind what he makes. All of his cigars are average at worst () and when comparing all of the cigars made by Pepin and distributed by Rocky, I don't think the quality comes close.

Will this new cigar blow anyone's socks off? I don't know, but he's had some really good releases in the past year including the Cubao, LAdC, and My Father.

I was gonna say, compare RP to DPG at every level and see if you come up equal. He might have a lot of brands, but at least at this point, they are all great values for their prices, as well as great smokes. Not to mention is good smokes are GREAT, where as at this point RP's only really GREAT smoke is the Decade (arguably the Sun Grown as well, I would agree), DPG has so freaking many GREAT smokes... My Father, Tatuaje (everthing), San Cristobal, LAdC, the list goes on and on.

[taltos]

See, I'm on the other side where I prefer many of Rocky's smokes to those of Pepin. However, neither of them can hold a candle to Oliva. This is why they market so many brands of cigars.

Originally Posted by taltos

See, I'm on the other side where I prefer many of Rocky's smokes to those of Pepin. However, neither of them can hold a candle to Oliva. This is why they market so many brands of cigars.

I find Oliva to be a much more focused and limited production house than RP and Pepin, and I really like their stuff too.

whats so special about oliva, the ones i've had from them are bland and dry my mouth out. It sounds like these new pepins will be cheap. In cuba they call them peso cigars.

[TomHagen]

Originally Posted by Mr. Ed

I have to disagree. While Rocky's only schtick is marketing cigars, Pepin actually blends and works on his product. He is a real cigar guy and stands behind what he makes. All of his cigars are average at worst () and when comparing all of the cigars made by Pepin and distributed by Rocky, I don't think the quality comes close.

Will this new cigar blow anyone's socks off? I don't know, but he's had some really good releases in the past year including the Cubao, LAdC, and My Father.

Why are me and this 'horse' always on the same page!?!

[Mr. Ed]

Seriously, it's like beating a dead horse!

As far as the La Reloba, as long as it's a "DPG" brand not made for Pete Johnson, chances are it will be good and affordable.