Dating Cigars

[CptnBlues63]

I just started getting serious about cigars a year ago June, so I am very much still a newbie to the hobby. Early on I was keeping up with my cigars on a spreadsheet but it didn't last long. It made it feel too much like work for me so I abandoned it.

LOL - I'm the same way. I kept it up for a while but found it too much like work. Mostly I started that sheet to keep track of what I did like, and didn't like but it quickly became moot as I seem to remember what I like quite well.

Having said that. My own experience with aging is simple enough. A couple years back I went to Las Vegas and on the advice of someone on this board, I stopped at the Fuente store at Caesar's Palace casino for a cigar and mohito combination. While there, I bought 4 of the "house" Fuente cigars. I smoked one later that day and thought, "This is ok, not great, but ok" A few months later, I smoked another one and had the exact same reaction. I forgot about them for a while so it was almost two years later I lit another one of the remaining two and was stunned by how good it was.

I hadn't aged that on purpose, I just had been smoking other cigars and the two were buried under a few others and I forgot about them. So aging certainly helped that particular cigar out. I hope the same remains true for the last one which I'm kind of saving for a special occasion.

[kingbeefy]

LOL -

Having said that. My own experience with aging is simple enough. A couple years back I went to Las Vegas and on the advice of someone on this board, I stopped at the Fuente store at Caesar's Palace casino for a cigar and mohito combination. While there, I bought 4 of the "house" Fuente cigars. I smoked one later that day and thought, "This is ok, not great, but ok" A few months later, I smoked another one and had the exact same reaction. I forgot about them for a while so it was almost two years later I lit another one of the remaining two and was stunned by how good it was.

After this post I smoked a Casa Fuente double corona that I bought in February. I thought it was noticeably better than what I had while I was there.