Counterfeit Cohiba Red Dot

The Cohiba Red Dot I got from a friend was actually a counterfeit. Well, its not really noticable upon visual inspection, unless you really look. On visual inspection, the cigar came in a cello wrapper, a little veiny and it spot the box effect. It somehow reminds me of the cheap european cigars available at supermarkets (Villiger, Willhem etc.). That's one suspicion.

Another was the band. It was fixed rather shoddily and a check with cigar aficionado confirms it was a fake.

The original band would look like this:

My counterfeit:

Here's a link from Cigar Aficionado on another counterfeit red dot.

However, i tried the cigar out of curiosity. Upon lighting the taste was bland. The draw was not without effort in fact it was rather difficult to draw a suffient volume of smoke. After about one-third, tar deposit start to build up and the taste by now was rather acidy and harsh. It was at this point i decided to part with the poser and threw it into the BBQ pit.

Comments

[Sharizal Shaarani]

Damnn...

[Aizuddin Danian]

Where did you get it from?

[KaZ]

A friend gave it to me a couple of months back... Dude was so happy, "Hey I got some Cohibas's... you want one?" I said, "yeah, want the heck".
If I can remember correctly, his friend got it from Hong Kong.

[Aizuddin Danian]

Received this clarification email over the issue from a well-known cigar site:

"I checked with our buyer on this and what he told is that we have the newest
band for the Cohiba. The cigars are made by General Cigars and they have
been making changes to the label. Cigar Aficionado even mentions that
General is changing the label."

[KaZ]

But this one is a sure poser.
Taste like one of those cheap european cigars, and the tar deposit is enough to pave an airstrip.... OK im exaggerating, but really... good cigars shouldn't have tarry deposit.
BTW the band look cheap too...