White Lightning Maduro

I have been order and smoking these cigars for at least 10 years. Going through around a box a month. As of the last two years I find them a very disappointing smoke. The sweetness has changed. Nowhere as sweet as the used to be. The draw of the smoke has changed as well. Sometimes the batch is difficult to smoke because they are so difficult to draw on. Sometimes they burn quite quickly because the draft is so loose. I miss the sweetness of the taste and consistency of the draw that was present until a few years ago. Wonder what changed?

I've had a few of these sitting in the closet for a few years and decided to pull them out and smoke them, which turned out to be excellent after all those years. The tightness proved to be enough to keep them in excellent shape. Humidified them for a couple of days which proved unneeded, but still best to try. Very tight and the little hole proved insufficient for the draw but clipped a quarter inch off which rectified everything. The Maduro wrapper gave just the right punch to the already adequate strength cigar.

I have been ordering these cigars for almost 20 years. They were $42.50 a box when I began ordering and now they are over $90.00. I wouldn’t mind the price increasing if the flavor and burn time of the cigars was the same but it is NOT. It’s like they have changed how they make them. They are no longer sweet and I can go through one in 40 minutes and they used to burn for almost an hour. Please let me know what you think is going g on. If they have changed something that causes them to not be as sweet, please let me know so I won’t think it’s just me. Thank you. I try to tel all my cigar buddies about Finck.