Puro versus blend is a labeling distinction. A puro keeps wrapper, binder, and filler inside one country’s borders. A multi-country blend does not. Cuban cigars sold as Habanos are puros by definition: the island grows what it rolls. Many Nicaraguan houses, Padrón included, also stay in-country. Many Dominican and Honduran lines mix.
Neither side owns flavor. Cuban-seed tobacco grown in Jalapa is not a Cuban cigar. An Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper on Estelí filler is not a fraud; it is a recipe.
Use the words as geography. Then smoke the cigar. More: topics · cuban vs new world.