What Is Lane Up To?

[skraps]

Anyone noticed the 3 most recent blends that Lane has released? Cohiba, Macanudo and Wild Hare. If you read the descriptions... they all pretty much sound the same. Seems a bit strange to me. Any thoughts?
I think it's a conspiracy.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipe-tobacco/lane/Cohiba-1.75oz/product_id/218789
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipe-tobacco/lane/Macanudo-1.75oz/product_id/219573
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipe-tobacco/lane/Wild-Hare-1.75oz/product_id/219613

 

[iamn8]

Gotta love licensing... not really, but still.

 

[mso489]

Those names, and no cigar leaf? Preposterous.

 

[aldecaker]

Reading the descriptions, they all sound like tinned versions of Captain Black to me.

 

[pagan]

I got some Wild Hare just for the tin art, it turns out to be a good smoke

 

[aldecaker]

Is it anything like Captain Black?

 

[judcole]

They are similar,but if you carefully read the descriptions they have differences.
Wild Hare

Light and dark Cavendishes combined with Burley

Macanudo

selected Virginias and Cavendish

Cohiba

Burley, Cavendish and Virginia based

The cigar guys wanna leverage their brand into pipe tobacco. Lane's part of STG; who owns Cohiba and Macundo?

 

[skraps]

The cigar guys wanna leverage their brand into pipe tobacco.

Ah, the same cigar guys that haven't really done squat to protect pipe tobacco while protecting their own business interests? They want to leverage their brand into pipe tobacco, eh?
I'm not sure whether that should make me laugh or cry, lol.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Three vanilla aromatic blends with cigar branding? I was kind of hoping that Lane was going to be branching out into some non-aromatic pipe tobacco. I am curious whether they feel that they've just don't connect with non-aromatic smokers? Or, that it just isn't their market?

 

[jazz]

Lane's part of STG; who owns Cohiba and Macundo?

Cohiba is owned by the Cuban state. I went to one of the factories whilst I was there in 2008.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

If Cohiba is owned by the Cuban state, we wouldn't be able to access them in the US through normal stores. And, Cohibas are everywhere. Maybe, STG bought the name?

 

[fitzy]

Cohiba is owned by Cuba. There had been an ongoing lawsuit for aboutt 10 years over General Cigar's use of the name which was settled in Cubatobaco's favor last year. At one point the Dominican Cohiba's even had labels that looked almost identical to the Cubans but they eventually switched to the red dot label. I think they switched because of the litigation and when they lost their initial case in court they were selling the Dominican Cohiba's with the old ban for dirt cheap and I bought a ton for pennies on the dollar.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/02/23/high-court-hands-win-to-cuban-firm-over-use-cohiba-brand-name-in-us/

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Whether Cuban or not, the few Cohibas I've had were pretty dang good. I like the small tins of Cohibas they sell.

However, I do not associate any cigar with a vanilla flavored tobacco. What is up at the Lane R&R department?

 

[fitzy]

What is up at the Lane R&R department?

Bugs Bunny is running the place?

 

[michaelmirza]

These all came out this summer, in attempt to introduce new blends before the supposed FDA cutoff date in August. Initially P&C was the only site carrying the new stuff. Seems like the other vendors are now catching up. When they were first released I picked up Andullo, Wild Hare, and Foundry. Have only tried Andullo so far but it's excellent!