How Old Do You Prefer Your Cigars

[Herf N Turf]

Pretty simple question, but begs a lot of complicated answers. Watch out, this one's gonna get frisky!

The premise is pretty simple; IN GENERAL, you lik'em fresh and smok'em as soon as you gett'em. One to six months rest, six months to a year of rest, 1-2 years rest, or >4 years? I thought these were pretty sturdy and generally accepted categories. I think it'll be really fun to see how the votes go. We'll no doubt get all the whys and why'fors in the thread.

Have fun with this!

[OnePyroTec]

Loaded question!
IMHO any cigar "I" would buy is ready ROTT. Look in my humidor, and AGED is dominating.

[Joe k]

I like to let mine sit for 12-24 months

[CamoSutra]

How old do I prefer my cigars to be when I smoke them? Most cigars, anywhere from one to five years; I clicked on "four or more".

How old are my cigars when I smoke them? That's a totally different question. I'm stocked up enough that some of them might survive a year or so, provided I buy plenty of others to smoke ROTT.

[droy1958]

Actually, I prefer mine light, but MOST don't make it past a year.....

[T.E.Fox]

I'll always give my cigars a week or two in the humi to rest after shipping. Then they just wait their turn. I care not for the age they have on them as most I wouldn't have an exact clue. What I care about is if it tastes good when I set it on fire

[RocknRoll]

I'll always give my cigars a week or two in the humi to rest after shipping. Then they just wait their turn.

I'm not a "buy to age guy". I'm a "buy to smoke guy". Like Fox said, I try to give mine a few weeks rest to acclimate, then they wait in line. Accounting for the frequency at which I buy and smoke, I guess I'm currently right on the border of 1-6 mths and 8-12 mths by the time a cigars number comes up. Since the time frame has been slowly edging higher since getting serious about this hobby a couple years ago, I voted the 8 -12 months option.

[Tman]

I think at least half the cigars in my humidors have spent over a year in there. I do smoke some cigars ROTT just as an experiment and couple months down the road. I find most cigars benefit greatest with a month of rest. Improvement tapers off after that in increments of 6 months, 1 year, then 3 years. I'll smoke anything that tickles my mood though whether it being 5 years old or ROTT.

[piperdown]

Skipped right over 36 months huh…….

[B daddy]

I only started purchasing in any real volume about 4 years ago. So, I don't have many cigars older than that. Now everything I buy goes into the tupper for about a year or more. Then it moves into one of the desk tops. I smoke from those and they probably take a year or so to turn over. By the time I smoke it, I've had it about 1-2 years.