I'm just getting into aging cigars (just bought 40 more of my favorite cigar to put away). But I would recommend that if you're not aging box quantities, at least get 3 to 5 so you can try them as they age and see how they change. Otherwise, as Kuzi said, don't stress about it. Just make sure to open the box every week or so to prevent mold (and catch it quickly if it starts), and handle them as little as possible.
I've got my coolerdor set up as an aging box. Nothing in it has much age on it as Its only been up and running for about 45 days, but I don't plan on smoking from it until we hit 2010, then I'm going to see how things are coming along. I've got about 10 boxes and a few bundles in there set up with a Cigar Oasis holding around 64-65%. I'm especially curious to see how the Don Carlos and the Padilla Obsidian do.
Wow, Joe. I thought I had dived off into this hobby in a big way. I'm a rank amateur compared to you.
Well, I have a little bit of an impulse control problem and I love buying things on auction. I've put myself on cigar time-out for the next 2-3 months, absolutely no buying of anything, doesn't matter how good of a deal it is.
Mine isn't the right way to do and my digital cam crapped. Anyways mine is compressor driven so what I do is I have one real humidor and now I'm up to 4 tupperdors that each manage their own RH but the wine fridge keeps them all at a pleasant 65*. The right way to do this is to get a thermo-electic wine fridge and convert the whole thing into one huge humidor.
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