Any of you have any problems with any batch of cigars that you received dried out or stale tasting? Does this read like a problem with storage, rolling, age of cigars, all of the above or something else? I received a batch of seconds (RP Vintage 90's Churchill) that I've bought before (except those were torpedo size) and they were great, but this batch of 15 was very dried out and tasted stale. The normal taste has a lot of nutty flavor and the cigar is typically oily with a hint of sweet after taste. This latest batch did not match up at all. Any thoughts? After I left them in my humidor for 10 days they weren't so dry but it did nothing for the taste. Have any of you had this experience?

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This is something that has been confounding me....for years.........

Let me say up front, I'm not a geometry wiz..........but

That being said....

If the rolling "technique" stays the same....(for instance, 2 layers of wrapper, 2 layers of binder, and the rest filler).....

well then.....

as the ring gauge gets larger, the actual proportion in the amount of tobaccos used (wrapper, binder, filler) shouldn't change.........

as the ring gauge increases, there is more wrapper needed to cover the cigar, more binder needed, etc.............

That's in theory of course.......

what say you experts?

There are all sorts of reasons cigars are sold as seconds. I wouldn't expect any level of consistency in terms of taste, construction, etc. from one batch to the next.

You may have better luck in terms of consistency finding a line of cigars that are normally priced at or near what you are paying for the seconds.

the surface area "wrapper" of this cylinder is 2*pi*r*L

so as the radius "ring gauge" increases, the amount of filler gets squared. which reduces the wrapper to filler ratio... and vice versa for smaller ring gauges

+1.......Tats too.

MH[gonzo]

And this is why so many blends start as a corona sized vitola