Rock on! You won't be sorry.

I love aging. It's "Current You" giving a gift to "Future You". When "Future You" gets the gift years from now, he's really really happy that "Current You" was nice enough to put it aside and thus give it to him.

"Future You" is a great guy, you should spend some money now and give him some much-improved gifts.

Also, it's one of the very few ways that you can make time YOUR bitch, rather than the usual situation where you are its bitch. Usually time makes you older, breaks down your health, kills your loved ones, and generally screws you over. Aging fine cigars and stouts (and doing stuff like low-expense ETF investing with DRIP compounding) is a way to harness time and make it HELP you.

"DAMN YOU, passage of time! You've taken Aunt Edna and Grandpa from me, and you've given me the gout! But haha, at least I forced you to make my cigars and stouts better, you SOB!"

It's very satisfying on a philosophical level... and you end up with friggin' DELICIOUS stuff that nobody else around you knows how to, or has the patience to, obtain.


DPG stuff ages well. I speak from long experience here. But I think AJ stuff, most of it anyway, ages the best of almost anything.
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What's the go to short Noob smoke?
I'm thinking around 30-40 mind maybe less.

My first fave shorties were the J Fuego Origen Originals, 5x44, a good inexpensive smoke, then the Fuente Hemingway Short Story, MUWAT Baitfish, LaFlor Dominicana Reserva Especial El Jocko (I prefer the natural over the maduro with this one). Latest fave shorty is the Tatuaje Reserva Petit Cazadores.

Those do age well. Try one now and if you like it fresh, chances are the aged ones will hit that spot better. If you like it, pick up a couple more 5 packs and put those away for a year, or two, or three. Not all cigars that are great fresh will age well, so this is kinda trial and error and word of mouth from a BOTL who has been there and done that. Other DPG smokes that seem to improve with a year or more of rest are the My Father, MF Le Bijou, Jaime Garcia and San Cristobal.

RRMFLY...I got that fiver shipped today, enjoy!

delta1... Yes, the Le Bijou is great at a year (I'm burning one now that is 14 months) and I plan to try a few at two years. I have a fiver of San Cristobal that has been resting almost a year, gonna try one soon and let a couple of those go two years.

Pudding Mittens...thanks for the advice, here's to making "future me" a happy man!

Thanks mjburn.
I'm out of town for a week but I can't wait to get back to them.