Am curious of others practices, and gauging a majority response through posts sucks, so here's a poll.
Thanks to all those who participate
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Am curious of others practices, and gauging a majority response through posts sucks, so here's a poll.
Thanks to all those who participate
Will really depend on the cigar and if I want to see if time makes a difference.
I voted for a month but didn't show in poll results. Probably 2 weeks if something new I want to check it out. Forgot to hit the vote now button
Depends upon the cigar and where I got it from. Sometimes immediately. Otherwise, anything is game after a few weeks.
Should probably say how i voted, lol.
I voted 1 week as an average if I can resist, but its not uncommon to smoke a particular one after only a few days.
Really, everything has been just fine immediately when I couldn't resist the temptation.
Have only ever had one cigar that was just terrible tasting even after about a week, but after sitting 3 months was like an entirely new cigar and I enjoy them now. Not sure what was going on with them. Draw, burn and construction were perfect so i don't think the rh was too high from the vendor, as others from the same order were fine. Weird
Fwiw, it was the DE Factory Smokes Sungrowns that I'm referring to.
What are your criteria for wanting to see if time makes a difference?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ciro
Very curious how you decide between right away, and over an extended period.
Would be a good learning experience for me
Anywhere from a couple weeks to a decade
Lol, definitely envy those of you with enough cigars that you can lose/forget about entire boxes for years, and dont really know what all you have.Quote:
Originally Posted by josh lucky 13
Even with my memory damage, and a little help from my inventory app, i know exactly what I have and exactly where it is, as i have 2, 74qt tupperdors and 5 of the larger Sistema tupperdors and 2 of the smaller ones, so without my app i can pretty well remember what I have but wouldnt know quantity or location without the app.
It would drive me nuts not knowing all that. Lol
I friggin love cigars
I know about 80% of what I have. There are a few that get misremembered but not enough it affects me. I most know if I have had it or bought it before. Remembering what I have sent out is harder.Quote:
Originally Posted by jrfoxx
When I first started enjoying cigars I would buy a sampler and smoke them right away. Over time I started saving more cigars then smoking them. As I pulled some of the older ones out I realized that the profile, not on all of them, had changed for both the better and worse. This peaked my interest so I tend to smoke one ROTT (or within a couple of days) and save a few for later to see if there is any difference. Perfect example (in my opinion which is worth less then $.02) are the Liga Privada. They need to be smoked relatively quickly. They tend to lose almost all their profile after 6 months of resting.Quote:
Originally Posted by jrfoxx
Thanks for the inputQuote:
Originally Posted by Ciro
That's basically what I do too. I smoke I of anything i have multiples of within a few days and if anything doesn't act or taste right, particularly any bitterness, then I let them sit.
The Padilla La Terraza fiver i just bought is a perfect example. It had a fair bit of bitterness on the finish, so the remaining 4 will be sitting at least 6 months to hopefully clear it out.
You can taste that its a good cigar since the bitterness is just on the aftertaste, so well worth the wait i think. Just hope 6 months is long enough
Glad you told me about the liga privada as i have some slated for my December order of 7 different Fuentes and 6 different Tatuajes.
I too have learned that some cigars dont age well at all, while others are great sged.
I have been bombed with 2 loads of nc's from the early 2000's, and even a bomb of US made with Cuban tobacco, pre- embargo 50's and early 60's smokes, and as you can see from my reviews of all of them, aging is definitely a hit or miss proposition. Without firsthand experience of a particular aged cigar, you never know if the cigar will improve with a certain amount of age, or if it will turn to crap.
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