The Oldest

[Carlos]

Do you guys mark or segregate sticks by purchase date?

Wouldn't there be a lot of variation in "aging" before you bought it? Or should we assume most cigars get sold before there is significant age?

[ashauler]

Do you guys mark or segregate sticks by purchase date?

I mark my boxes with purchase date, not so much singles and 5 'ers unless they were gifts or trades which all get marked.

Wouldn't there be a lot of variation in "aging" before you bought it? Or should we assume most cigars get sold before there is significant age?

The short anwer is yes, there is significant variation. Some cigars are aged several months after they are rolled, some are shipped with little to no additional aging after rolling. Some retailers turn stock over pretty fast, some don't.

[EGQ]

My approach has always been to let things sit until they are to my liking -- however, very little makes it past 2-3 years in my humi.

That being said, I have a box of Macanudo Jades that is about 15 years old -- they tasted like shit back then, they taste like shit now, and I'm fairly confident in predicting that they will taste like shit 20 years from now. Thankfully, they were included with a purchase (I wonder why...) -- but occassionally someone posts a candela wrapped anything on their wish list, so they have some marginal utility. Be careful what you wish for...

This wasn't intended as a Macadoodle bash -- I think most candela wrapped smokes taste like ass -- these just happen to be Macs.

[DeeDubya]

My approach has always been to let things sit until they are to my liking -- however, very little makes it past 2-3 years in my humi.

That being said, I have a box of Macanudo Jades that is about 15 years old -- they tasted like shit back then, they taste like shit now, and I'm fairly confident in predicting that they will taste like shit 20 years from now. Thankfully, they were included with a purchase (I wonder why...) -- but occassionally someone posts a candela wrapped anything on their wish list, so they have some marginal utility. Be careful what you wish for...

This wasn't intended as a Macadoodle bash -- I think most candela wrapped smokes taste like ass -- these just happen to be Macs.

I've got some Olor Paco's that aren't too bad. Kind of strong actually but still have that grassy taste. I believe you said assy taste.

[kevin7]

I have a Uppman from approx 1937. Came in a crystal jar and was in a basement out in the midwest in a basement of a friends grandfather who passed away

[Eville]

The Longest any have aged once they have arrived in my humidor is about 1 year. That happens to be a CAO America I was saving for the 4th this year. I may have ruined it though. My 4th plans fell through so I didnt smoke it. That night I was carrying stuff in from my car, ran out of hands, and put it in my pocket. Before I made it into the house, My brothers friend backed into our ditch and I had to go push him out. It got a little tore up in the process, We will have to see if it still smokes well.

[BunkyX]

If you age a group of different cigars together in a humidor for any lenght of time they will all begin to marry plus take on the subtle taste of the cedar inside the humidor. With prolonged aging you could end up with cigars that taste like every other cigar in the humidor with only minor flavor nuances due to the actual type of tobacco in the stick itself. By putting them in the tubes and sealing it, after it has rested in the humidor for a week or so to stablized, you prevent this from happening. Then the leaves in the stick marry only what it is rolled with. No crossing of cigar flavors. Sometimes this mellows the smoke, sometimes not.
I do age some of the harsher or too green cigars in their cello but that is because I want them to aquire the cedar nuance to perk them up, or I want them to lose some ammonia to take out some of the harshness.

Gene