I have the hardest time aging cigars because I have no patience. I will buy a box and smoke 1 or 2 a day until the box is gone. I keep telling my wife that when we have our first child I will buy a box of cigars and smoke 1 every year on the kid's birthday, but that will be hard for me.
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Posts: 456 | Location: Cleveland | Registered: January 03, 2003
Cleveland Mike, what you have to do for the first year is buy about a box a week. Then after a year of this you will have so many cigars around that you won't know WHAT you have. That is what I did (heck I still do some months.) Now I am sitting on about 1000 cigars. The bad news is you have to come up with the $$$ initially. The good news is now all I have to do is smoke one a day, buy about a box a month and I will always have aged smokes. It is tough to get to that point, I know, but the good news is once you start ordering by the box it gets addictive. You no longer say, "I want to try them, let me get one." Now you say "I want to try them, let me get a box." It took me two years to get to the 1000 mark. My only regret is that I wish I had saved up a bit more and bought a Vigilant or other large humidor to hold everything.
Mike, I'm in the same boat as you. I'm getting a bonus in my paycheck soon though, and so I'm taking the plunge and going to start buying boxes. Up until now I didn't know what I liked or would want to spend the $ on ...
I've also decided to build my own large-sized custom humidor -- basically the maximum cubic footage that a cigar oasis can humidify. Hopefully I'll be able to post some photos of the construction ... if I can get my web-page crap fixed ...
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Posts: 267 | Location: Denver, Colorado, USA | Registered: June 08, 2004
Another problem with aging that I ran across today:
I purchased several boxes of fine "Imported" cigars back in 2003 and put them in the back of the Aristocrat to settle and age.
As I will be going away for a few days, I decided to look for something special. I found a box of RyJ 2003 EL Robustos that I didn't even remember buying. I lit one up this afternoon and I am taking a few with me on vacation.
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Posts: 9615 | Location: New York City | Registered: May 02, 2002
Yeah those are the aging problems I like. I found a Opus xXx in a box of Fuente Flor Fina Candelas last week. The box was from 2002, but I probably put the Opus in 6 months later once I had smoked the FF's down. Now I am looking at an Opus with 2 years age on it...damn, now what could I possibly do with that?
The longest I can keep a box around the house is about 2 years max. I found the best way to save 'em for aging is to buy a box and let my buddy keep it in one of his coolerdors. Out of sight, out of mind.
Posts: 2339 | Location: North Carolina,CSA | Registered: June 28, 2002
