Aging Cigars

Smoke=Fire

What is the accepted timeframe in which a cigar is considered to be "aged"?

cusccrstud21

you can age a cigar anywhere from a few months up to multiple decades...a cigar is aged to find the prime of its smoking ability...so people usually smoke one every 6months to a year in order to compare the smokes and when they think they're in their prime they tend to smoke them more regularly...somebody can correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure this is correct

kuzi16

Smoke=Fire

Thank you for the very informative and thorough post. Damn, I wish they'd get the formatting issue fixed. It is like reading Ancient Roman...all the letters blending into the next word almost.

kuzi16

Smoke=Fire:

Damn, I wish they'd get the formatting issue fixed. It is like reading Ancient Roman...all the letters blending into the next word almost.

if you follow the link to the eotac forum youll see the way it was supposed to be read.

Rathaven

That was very informative, thanks. BTW, to add to your wish list,"I hope some day to have a 20 year old Cuban" there's a 23 year old Korean I've got my eye on.

LarryD

6clicks

We all thought it Larry, you just said it. LOL

jlzimmerman

Smoke=Fire

Sweet! A very nice post JL, and gives a good baseline to work from for a persons own tastes.

kuzi16

pilot711

That was good. I try to age all my sticks a year. 6 months min.

ashmaster

Some very nice reading.....thanks guys!

SeanDamnit

You may find this to be an interesting read: http://cigars.about.com/od/humidors/a/agingcigars_2.htm This guy bought a box of cigars, then did a taste test every week at first, followed by every month, for a full year and gave a rating each time. From everything I've read, it looks like 4-6 weeks is the standard "at least this long" for all cigars, unless you get them from a shop where they have probably already been sitting around for that long. For me, it's "however long it takes me to get it out of the tube"

carmike22

I have had cigars before like the Opus X that comes with a few years of age on them, but on my birthday this year in 2 months I will be able to smoke my first aged cigar. Its a Oliva Serie V Double Toro I bought last year when they came out. So this year I will be able to smoke a new one and then smoke my aged one to see really what age will do to a cigar. I'm very excited to do this. I am expecting good results because I've read that stronger cigars in general age better letting them mellow out and the flavors to fuse more. So I'll back to ya'll when that happens. I can't wait.