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[jrfoxx]

Am curious of others practices, and gauging a majority response through posts sucks, so here's a poll.

Thanks to all those who participate

[Ciro]

Will really depend on the cigar and if I want to see if time makes a difference.

[jrfoxx]

Will really depend on the cigar and if I want to see if time makes a difference.

What are your criteria for wanting to see if time makes a difference?

Very curious how you decide between right away, and over an extended period.

Would be a good learning experience for me

[Ciro]

What are your criteria for wanting to see if time makes a difference?

Very curious how you decide between right away, and over an extended period.

Would be a good learning experience for me

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.

[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.

Thanks for the input

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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[dinoa2]

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

[Nature]

Depends upon the cigar and where I got it from. Sometimes immediately. Otherwise, anything is game after a few weeks.

[jrfoxx]

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.

[josh lucky 13]

Anywhere from a couple weeks to a decade

[jrfoxx]

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.

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