Cigar Order

[Roham]

"The cedar holds more moisture than most woods, it will help you maintain your humidity. Second, the cedar aroma will impart itself on your cigars if you age them long enough. That is also why some cigars are wrapped in cedar planks when you buy them"......


i'm told that mahogany also works.....many companies are cutting back on the use of spanish cedar...two reasons...scarcity and very high prices....

many cigar stores are using spanish cedar for the walls of their humidors...but are using mahogany for the shelves.....this cuts down on the cost of the humidor......other cedars cannot be used because of the too strong cedar aroma......

But Zino is not worried about cutting costs Their humi's are already outrageously priced. They have a humidifier that they claim will keep the humidity at a constant 70%, so they don't even offer a hygrometer with their humi's and they aren't worried about the absorption qualities of the wood. And if your cigars are coming in a cedar box or are wrapped in a cedar sleeve there is even less reason to have your humidor lined with cedar........

Again, I prefer cedar in my humidors, I was just being a devils advocate

[TheSilentChamber]

Its really more of a tradition now than for fuctionality. Cedar was orgionally used to retain the moisture... before they had humidifiers (or decent working ones). Now that technology has advanced there is no reason to use it unless except solely for flavor purposes.