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longest you've aged a cigar?
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Natsmoker Offline
#1 Posted: Mon, Aug 18 2003, 12:26 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2002
Posts: 138
Hey,

Just curious at the longest people have intentionally aged their cigars for. Not talking about the dog rockets that are just sitting in the humi for years on end. What were the result good, bad, still aging?

Thanks
arwings Offline
#2 Posted: Mon, Aug 18 2003, 2:21 PM EST
Joined: 02-09-2003
Posts: 950
About 2 1/2 - 3 years. My belief is that cigars won't necessarily improve indefinitely with age. I think all cigars reach their "peak" at some point and will tend to deteriorate after that. The trick is knowing when is long enough without aging too long. To me it just stands to reason that, although it will take a while, even in a humidified, controlled environment tobacco oils will eventually break down and the cigar will begin to lose some of its flavor. After all, tobacco is an organic product, and like any organic product time will eventually break it down into a less complex substance (don't get me wrong; a cigar can probably be maintained SMOKEABLE almost indefinitely, but I do think that at some point aging becomes a detriment to flavor). Just my thoughts.........
Intel Offline
#3 Posted: Mon, Aug 18 2003, 2:39 PM EST
Joined: 06-24-2002
Posts: 546
8 years. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good
PadronMan Offline
#4 Posted: Mon, Aug 18 2003, 3:29 PM EST
Joined: 05-22-2002
Posts: 68
have some Padron's going on 5 years....mmmmmmmmmmm
jdobson Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Aug 19 2003, 6:52 PM EST
Joined: 08-11-2003
Posts: 241
Right on. Padron's are an entirely different cigar after a year in the humi. They get so smooth while maintaining all the flavor.
JustDanD Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, Aug 20 2003, 1:28 AM EST
Joined: 02-27-2003
Posts: 748
Only been smoking cigars for 6 months so I would have to say that my longest has been 6 months. Made a world of difference to some cigars. I buy my really aged cigars from the local shop and love it.

Dan (JustDanD)
penzt8 Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, Aug 20 2003, 3:13 AM EST
Joined: 06-05-2000
Posts: 1,771
Just this week I started sampling some La Flor Dominicana 1999 vintage cigars with the habana 2000 wrapper. They've been sitting in my cabinet for about three years. They have definitely mellowed with age and are damn fine smokes. There are a couple other boxes in there from about the same period.
Steve*R Offline
#8 Posted: Wed, Aug 20 2003, 11:22 AM EST
Joined: 07-23-2001
Posts: 1,858
I have some Monte Canarios, La Regentas, Don Xaviers, and La Nubias...all rolled in the Canary Islands for the European market that are probably ten years old. Despite the Canary Island manufacturer's claim of growing high quality, indigenous brena tobacco for their cigar industry, it was a crock par excellance. Virtually all Canary Island cigars, not destined for the U.S., were a blend, of which half the blend was generally Cuban leaf. The Canary Islands imported Cuban tobacco long before Castro came to power.

Canary Island cigars, specifically made for the U.S. may have had some local leaf because they were very mild.

Because the boxes said "Made in the Canary Islands" if one desired to import Canary Island cigars from outside the U.S., there was rarely a problem with U.S. Customs.
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