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[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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