The Oldest

[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.

[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.