I've posted more than a 1000 vitolas to the database and one thing has bothered me more than anything else. When it comes to identifying leaves, I can only state country of origin in most cases. While that's important, most sophisticated tobacco growing countries are now growing every type of tobacco that will grow well there. Is it enough to know that your cigar's filler comes from Ecuador? Isn't it even more important to know if it's ligero, Olor or Habano? When it comes to Wrappers, if you have to choose, do you want to know if your wrapper comes from Ecuador or that it's Connecticut or Corojo?
You don't always have to choose in our database, but you usually have to. I try to fill in the missing info in the notes below, but you have to click on the specific cigar to see my notes. (I do add wrapper type to the vitola name when feasible). Many other entries are less informative.
What I'm getting at is that if the questionaire we have to fill out to enter a cigar gives us more options, there will be fewer doubts about the cigar's stats. Of course, it will create a two-tiered system where only new entries are well described, and it may give some false impressions about the old entries, (when compared to the new ones) but that's the cost of progress.
What does everyone else think?