Black sheep from Holts?

[T.G]

Originally Posted by T.G

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Color enhanced wrappers, which are naturally fermented, are one thing. I don't really know how many manufacturers engage in this practice with their cigars. To me, this isn't such a big deal, and while I'd just as soon do without it, I don't look at it as really any different than treating a wrapper with a bethune, which is a lot more common than you might think with NC cigars. Basically, naturally fermented wrappers can be splotchy, uneven, dissimilar from wrapper to wrapper - what they are doing here is making all the wrappers fairly uniform in appearance with a normally light dye coat. Aesthetics sell. Not a big deal to me, just so long as I don't end up looking like I stole Marlin Manson's lipstick (not all dye rubs/bleeds off - done right or light, it shouldn't, heavy coats are another issue...). *shrug*

crap - realized that some things came across completely different than what I had meant (like the part about how many manufacturers engage in a practice with natural wrappers, I didn't mean the use of natural wrappers, but rather the dying of naturally fermented wrappers...) anyway - tried to substitute the following edit, but ran out of time - please subsitute the following for the above quoted paragraph.

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Color enhanced wrappers, which are naturally fermented, are one thing. I don't really know how many manufacturers engage in the practice of touching up naturally fermented wrappers, but I do know the practice exists. To me, this isn't such a big deal, and while I'd just as soon do without it, I don't look at it as really any different than treating a wrapper with a bethune, which, while maybe not commonplace, does occur more than one might suspect/think with NC cigars. Basically, naturally fermented wrappers can be splotchy, uneven, dissimilar from wrapper to wrapper - what they are doing here is making all the wrappers fairly uniform in appearance with a normally light dye coat. Aesthetics sell. Not a big deal to me, just so long as I don't end up looking like I stole Marlin Manson's lipstick (not all dye rubs/bleeds off - done right or light, it shouldn't, heavy coats are another issue...). *shrug*

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