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Never had the regular Ave Maria in the Morningstar vitola, but I have a bunch of the Ave Maria Argentum variant in that vitola.
They were crap ROTT. They were crap a year later. They were getting better at 2 years. At 3 they're actually pretty good.
But, I got them on a super-ultra-cheapass CI deal. Like $1.25 a stick super-ultra-cheap, if I remember right. They remind me of another AJ stick I got on a super-ultra-cheapass deal, the Diesel coronas that were on the brief (48-ish hours) "10-pack plus $20 CI bucks card" deal CI does twice a year (May and December). Net price (after deducting the value of the gift card) was 75 cents each ($27.50 for 10 with $20 bucks card). They were absolutely horrible ROTT, ammonia bombs, couldn't smoke more than a half-inch before throwing them away. A year later, same. Two years later, same. Three years later, actually quite good.
Moral of the story is that if you see an AJ cigar selling very suspiciously super-cheap on CI, I mean much cheaper than even the normal deal prices, they may be really "green" and it may be a case of "just add several years!" before they're usable.
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