The Oldest

[BunkyX]

Use the search function and find the thread that was active a while back on aging cigars. There have been several of them in last few years. Lots of good knowledge in these. As for selection of a humidor there are a lot of good threads on that also.

As far as aging cigars in a humidor you might consider two humidors. One for smoking from and one to age in. I personally put the cigars I want to age for a long time in a glass tube with tape around the seam between the cap and the tube. This prevents any marrying of the various cigars or the sudden appearance of any devistating organisms. The tube keeps it well isolated from all the others.

Gene

[Carlos]

I was always under the ASSumption that aging required exposure to the air inside the humidor. Your note about the glass tube counters that. So was I just wrong, or is this one of those areas where everyone has a different method?

[JFellows]

The longest I've been able to keep a cigar would be around the 2-3 year mark. I also have a cigar from the 1920s in my humidor...who knows how many humidors that's seen, though.

[Silencei2]

I have a buddy who likes to age his cigars. He treated me to some Partagas cigars from 2000 and 1998 and they were very good. Getting back to the question, I have 2 cigars from each of the first boxes I purchased from August 17th 2007, almost 2 years. I haven't smoked any recently but I'll let you know when I do.

[mrtr33]

I don't have any self control. If a cigar ages in my humi, it's because other cigars in there have been more appealing to smoke.

I've smoked a Punch Gran Cru Vintage 2000 - that's about as old as I've gotten to go. James Suckling has a video of him smoking a really old cigar - I'll look for it and edit this post later if I can find it again.

A search should yield some great results for you. You don't need a fancy humidor to age cigars.

[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.