opelmanta1900 wrote:Smoking a Sumatra right now... The years have been kind.... I was never that impressed with them before, but as I sit here in the courthouse park - sunny, cold, and windy - this thing is smoking great...
Buy and hold, folks. With mild cigars aging tends to do nothing, but I've rarely smoked a stronger well-aged cigar that didn't improve quite a bit from when it was new.
Buy early and cheap, and reap the benefits later. Let's say it's 2023. Would you rather light up a cigar you just bought the same day for $12 that's "pretty good", or that same make/model of cigar that's now "wow, excellent" that you got in 2019 for $7.50 or $8, and that now due to natural human psychology "feels" like it's free?
(That's not even taking into consideration that that cigar might be banned before 2023 and all that's available are bland, weak, low-nicotine, FDA-approved blends for $18 and up due to punishing new cigar taxes).
These ARE the "good old days" you'll yearn for in the future. Act accordingly.
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