Are there vintage years and lesser years for tobacco, just as with wines?
Yes indeed. Plantations may have to cope with unusually bad weather conditions, which naturally take their toll. The consequences are often minimal for the filler, which is a blend of tobaccos from various plantations and various countries, the consequences are often slight, but this is not the case with the very expensive wrapper leaf. When the climate has revealed its most unpleasant side, serious cigar-makers are confronted with a huge task in finding enough wrapper-leaf of outstanding quality. In these years the demand is many times greater than the supply. The fact that a year with a poor crop has hardly any effect on the cigar you enjoy is thanks to the inventiveness and expertise of the cigar-maker who has moved heaven and earth to procure the best raw materials for his product.
