I'm planning on aging a cigar or two for my graduations from college and **hopefully** culinary school. That should be in 2 and 4 yrs, respectively. What would be the best one to age for these occasions? I'm looking at medium bodied premium's, prefer chocolately notes over toasty.

Thanks.

-Josh

Non ISOM:

-Padron#2000-5000 maduro

-ANY TORANO

-Bucanero Salsa and Full Sail

-CAO Brazilia

-Bahia....they age really well.

-Fuente Cuban Beli SunGrown

ISOM:

-Just about any of them

JMO

Dave

well everyone knows that the one and only best cigar to age is the Professor Sila. 1 month on them they taste like Sir Turnberry's thong, but after 5 years - wow, what a smoke!

*** for those of you who missed it - note to readers: all of al'Thor's comments should be considered dripping with sarcasm and for the sole purpose of winning the affection of others through humor....

Ok, the point is - no one can say that. But here are some cigars that I happen to like that I have had good experiences with as they age: PAM, Ashton VSG, AF Hemingways, Many isoms. A lot depends on what YOU like - what are some of your favorites and maybe someone has an experience on how it aged...

In my opinion, the best cigars to age are those with deep character to begin with. Aging impacts the flavor by removing some bitterness (if any), and allowing the flavors to develop further.

So, pick a cigar that has great deep flavor now, and it will get better with age. Don't bother aging any flavored cigars. 🙂

I'll second smelly, with an Exclamation point on the Full Sail.

Some of my favorites are on the milder side right now. I like 5 vegas when Im in the mod, Cu-avana's are my *goto*, the CAO cammie and mx2 are great.

I do have some Cohiba ISOM's Esp.'s that I am trying to revive for a coworker. They are in pretty rough shape but Im doing my best. I think I et to keep 1 or 2 for my babysitting so those will age. Right now I have them in their original box with a moist paper towel and the box is wrapped in plastic wrap. At the end of the week I will put them in my regular humi.

Thanks

-Josh

Young ones

whoa - what's this about a moist paper towel and cohibas??? Where's the moist paper towel - in the box with the sticks? or outside the box? Anyway, what RK said - those MX2's are powerhouses - would prob. do well w/ age. I'd say any good maduro would do well - but here's the thing. As MRN said - bad cigars don't age. Only good cigars will age well - so get something good,rich and oily like the above suggestions

LGC R #(4 or 5 or 6 or 7) maduro....those age well...very well...

RasDas

Joe

I just had an amazing 3 YO ERDM Rectagulare.... Sweet!

Turnberry's thong??? I know Turnberry. I know I don't want to know anything about his thong. He's a great guy but... please no thong..

DB

PS you wouldn't want mine either...

Sounds good guys. Yeah, those cohibas were bone dry. I let them sit in my humi for bout a week and a half. Then I took their original box and wiped it with distilled and let it sit for a day

Then I put them back in their box with a small paper towel soaked with dist. water. The paper towel was folded and covered in plastic wrap so it didnt touch the gars. Then I wrapped the box in plastic wrap b/c it wasn't exacty air tight. i took them out and they at least have a lil give to them so I put them in my humi. How long should they take to revive? Will they signif. lower my RH in my humi?

Thanks

-josh

If I were thinking of putting some serious age on a non-ISOM cigar two come to mind real quick:

AF 858 maddie

AF Hemmingway Signature maddie (more pricey and rare)

And ignore anything Ethan says about sheep and sheep thongs. Never owned one of either and have no inclinations to lower myself to such a degraded status as other known deviates around here:-)

if bad cigars don't age, then how's come a newish montague tastes like wet cat hair dipped in mud, but with a couple years on them they're actually decent?

Joya De Nic Ant. 1970

Personally anything with Padron on the box. Preferably Maddies.

Others,

CAO

C.Torano anything with that name, will make you happy, with age.

As far as aging ISOMs, all of them get better with about 3 years on them. If I was going to pick a cigar to age for such an event, it would be a Partagas Lusi. I smoked one the other day, from 98, that was my favorite ISOM experience to date.

Later

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

Agree with Homie - wait till you try a Trinidad from 98.

Always be extremely patient when reviving "bone dry" cigars. It usually takes months to avoid the wrapper splitting. The first month of restoration shouldn't exceed 62%RH, then gradually increase the RH by one to two percent increments in successive months. There will be flavor loss. It's unavoidable if the cigars have lost all moisture. This can be accomplished successsfully.

Several years ago a shipment of my favorite cigars arrived at La Casa Steve*R from a favored vendor. My wife neglected to mention the delivery, and set the shipping box in an area where I often put corrugated boxes that I use for shipping. It was right around Christmas, when many vendors are running specials, and I'd purchased enough cigars that I'd forgotten about this order. A couple of years passed before I discovered the unopened shipping carton. The uncelloed belicosos were dry, but undamaged. I gradually, over the course of a year, rehydrated them, until they had been restored. I'm quite certain they'd lost some of their power, but considering their remaining strength, I was pleased that they'd toned down.

Padron X000's should turn into a PAM with a few more years on them right? Same cigar except aged longer before made into a PAM. So by em cheap and age them and you'll have dynamite smokes. Just my 2 cents.

ajeroth

I just cracked open my dog-rocket humi. Everything in there has about 3yrs age on 'em. I'll tell you I had a Thomas Hinds that really impressed me. It was mild but flawless and tasty. Couple of others were quite decent too. If you have the space picking up a box or two of inexpensive smokes could pay off a few years later.

Hey, they don't make it into the dog rocket box unless they are sub-par when first sampled. Now I'm enjoying these sticks.