Dan, certain cigars are made to age, others won't get much better, and there are even some that get worse with age.
ISOMs are best aged, hands down. A mild cigar like an AVO will be great from the store, great with a year on them, great with 2 years on them. But, know what aging does, it smoothes out a cigar's edges. An Opus from the current year will have a great spiciness to it that will last as long as the cigar, but the spice will have mellowed and become a little smoother with age. It is great to age cigars, if you buy a box, put some away for aging and find out whether the age makes a difference.
I certainly have 2 boxes set aside for aging when I get more than one type of a cigar I know I already enjoy.
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." -C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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