If the cigar started out with decent tobacco, it will age nicely; otherwise you just have an older cheap cigar. When I first started bidding on Cigarbid, I won a pack of Xquisitos by Torano, I think it was. I smoked one and kicked the dog. Digging through one of my Rubberdors last night, I found the other four. I almost tossed them but decided to head out to the back yard (my smoking kingdom) and give it another try. In the light, I could see that these cigars had a tremendous amount of bloom crystals all over them. In the light they sparkled all over the cigar; lit it and it gave me tons of smoke and really nice spicy medium bodied flavor. These were almost a year and a half old. I have three left and I didn't kick the dog after lighting it up...but I did smoke it till it burned my fingers and yes, ate the rest. So don't bid on ANY Xquisitos...