jespear wrote:Seems pretty stupid to me, BUT . . . I'll risk one of my lower end cigars, (yes, I have a few), to appease my curiosity.
I'm thinking the excess water/moisture will turn to steam, and the cigar will burn HOT. We'll see.
I've tried that water thing years ago when the idea first started propagating around and while my experiences did not rival his levels of success, it didn't hurt them. The amount of improvement I saw with cigars ranging from 6 to 12-15 year old stuff was minor. Having taken wrapper leaves off of cigars before and re-rolling them onto others with the aid of a spray bottle of water, I've found that it's uprising just how little water actually penetrates the capa leaf. It really can't hold that much water either as it is a very thin leaf. the only thing to worry about is tilting the cigar and flooding the foot of the cigar with water. A little moisture there is going to evaporate out when you light it, and if you exhale / blow through the cigar after lighting before taking the first draw, my experiences were that it didn't create an instantly over humidifed cigar. It will not fix a dried out cigar. This is mostly just about keeping the wrapper on a properly humidified cigar from shattering when it's cut and maybe helping the burn.
Something to keep in mind with some of the cigars he's talking about in the video is that they are 25+ years old and have often changed hands many times. They could have been stored improperly for a time and this could create some issues with smoking them. Vintage Cuban cigars that I've seen and smoked, the wrappers are often very thin and fragile. The more recent, last 10 years give or take, production stuff seems to have wrappers ranging from a bit tougher to "damn, you sure this isn't Nicaraguan?".
What it might do for the revived Camachos I can't say, it might actually help them a bit. I recall them having pretty tough wrappers so I wouldn't worry too much about the water damaging them.
