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gmill880

When I first found this site I had been smoking cigars for around two or three years but did not change up what I smoked much and bought my cigars monthly. One thing that amazed me was people talking about aging cigars for 6 months , a year , 18 months and more !!! I wondered " how in the world can you keep a cigar that long and not smoke it " ??? And the variety !?!? Well today after 9 straight days of work I had a day off and was rooting through all three of my humi's just seeing what was where and looking for something good to relax on the deck with an adult beverage and noticed something. After being on the CCOM forums for about 16 months and having been involved in many games, bombings and just interacting with the great BOTL here I made an interesting discovery. I have cigars that have over 18 months of age on them and quite a few with between 8 and 10 months on them and several with over 2 years on them !!! I now understand that as your palette(sp) develops and with expanding your tastes and so many deals here and with friends it is really quite easy to have cigars with that kind of age even if your intention was not to age them. Damn I love this hobby !!! And oh yeah My choice for today was a forum blend Sumatra ...excellent smoke .

jsnake

Great BOTL here and the cigar hobby is the best thing I ever found. I have been blessed with good trades, a few bombs, but most importantly some great friends. Have several sticks guys were nice enough to date and have some age.

SaVas

Its really one of the best aspects of cigar smoking...the other people you meet that enjoy them as well. Be it people on the forums, or people at your local B&Ms. There is nothing like relaxing with some great sticks with others that enjoy the same. My biggest problem which isn't a problem really, is I have far too many 'special occasion' cigars now. The kind of cigar you have one or two left of that have become hard to come by, or are now reblended/no longer made. Lately, though, I've been dipping into those and enjoying some fantastic cigars with friends that have come over.

phobicsquirrel

gmill880:

When I first found this site I had been smoking cigars for around two or three years but did not change up what I smoked much and bought my cigars monthly. One thing that amazed me was people talking about aging cigars for 6 months , a year , 18 months and more !!! I wondered " how in the world can you keep a cigar that long and not smoke it " ??? And the variety !?!? Well today after 9 straight days of work I had a day off and was rooting through all three of my humi's just seeing what was where and looking for something good to relax on the deck with an adult beverage and noticed something. After being on the CCOM forums for about 16 months and having been involved in many games, bombings and just interacting with the great BOTL here I made an interesting discovery. I have cigars that have over 18 months of age on them and quite a few with between 8 and 10 months on them and several with over 2 years on them !!! I now understand that as your palette(sp) develops and with expanding your tastes and so many deals here and with friends it is really quite easy to have cigars with that kind of age even if your intention was not to age them. Damn I love this hobby !!! And oh yeah My choice for today was a forum blend Sumatra ...excellent smoke .

lol, yeah I'm in there with ya. We joined up here around the same time, though You have more years than me on cigars, I only smoked them off an on for about a year before I joined, then these jokers got me into it wayyyyyy toooo much.. hehe.

gmill880

alienmisprint

I wondered the same thing, about how you could let cigars sit for so long when I first started the hobby. Of course, I joined the forums about a month after I got into it, so no real gap there. I learned pretty quickly that as your collection expands and diversifies, alot of the sticks get aged pretty much without thinking about it. I have cigars now that are close to a year that I didn't really intend to age, lol. And yeah, it is an awesome hobby.

kuzi16

alienmisprint:

I learned pretty quickly that as your collection expands and diversifies, alot of the sticks get aged pretty much without thinking about it. I have cigars now that are close to a year that I didn't really intend to age

i have a few that are from 06 that i wasnt intending to age.

Cooper33

I can't wait to have some aged sticks. Right now my oldest are right at a month, as I restarted the hobby from scratch right at the start of December. Keep this in mind if you get a package from me :P.

nightmaremike31

When I first started enjoying cigars, in my very "newbious" days, I kep my cigars in a safe in my closet. I was cleaning out the closet this weekend and there are still cigars in there. Quite a few too, about 20 CCOM Nicaraguan Primeros, some Punch and some Pepin's. They still smell really nice, but I'm pretty sure by how brittle they are, that they might not be very good. But they've definitely aged... like an old man stuffed in a safe in the closet.

sightunseen

I've also gotten to the point where I am "unintentionally" aging cigars due to how many I have. It's pretty awesome when I rifle through my stash and find one I had forgotten about. Kind of like the feeling of finding random money in your pockets.

Fourtotheflush

I have sticks from my 1st ccom order aging that I had no intention of letting them sit for more than a month or so 18-19 monthw later. Cant wait to fire them up in the spring!

gmill880

Fourtotheflush

Lasabar

I like to keep track of everything on my Spreadsheet to a "T" but keep the humi a little disheveled to accidentally age some good sticks

clearlysuspect

gmill880

notveryfar

I have a few ageing. They are already 4 months old. I bought a bunch of daily smokes and a humidor and the others I keep in a different Humi that I set aside for when I'm back in the states that are a little higher quality.

RobRutkowski

j0z3r

RobRutkowski:

I think the idea of cigars getting better with age is fiction.

For a lot of cigars I'd agree. I've had cigars that tasted downright nasty when I got them fresh so I put them away for a while and when I smoked one some time later it was an entirely different cigar. Aging and the effect on cigars is not a myth, but I do think it's a little overstated. Chances are pretty good that if a cigar is not good fresh then aging won't do much for it, and by the same token a good cigar can become quite mediocre when aged, it all comes down to the particular cigar and how it will respond.

kaspera79

Hey Rob, I have smoked two Davidoffs and was underwhelmed on both. The ones I had were fresh since I got them from a friend who made a box purchase. I found them mild, very well constructed and consistant in their flavor profile. To compare them, they were very Avo/Griffin like. Both of which I found found far more enjoyable because of the lower price. I have had many five dollar(ish) cigars that are among my favorites. with Davidoff, you are paying for that name. Most of my cigars age due to abundance, but I can say for certain, some brands do improve, at least to me, with age. Nording, Bauza, Opus, and Camacho, to name a few.

RobRutkowski

TatuajeVI

My cigar hobby jumped like crazy this summer. I went from an occasional smoker to an avid collector. Partly because my wife and I are in a much better position financially this year, and partly due to this forum/ccom. This forum has introduced me to many cigars I would have never tried thanks to reviews/trades from other members, and Jeff Jackson from ccom is a complete jerk for always giving me way better prices than I expect to pay. (pssst! if you don't call in your orders, you are missing out!)