I'll be honest - the idea has occured to me. But I decided it was a flawed business plan, because I'd be in there smoking up the profits. That and people generally aren't all that willing to pay a premium for aged domestics. If you could lay in some premium Habanos, maybe.

Also, I read somewhere that a good portfolio can double itself (grow 100%) in like 9 years. Suppose you buy a box of Cuban premiums for $300. Can you sell them for $600 when they're nine years old? Probably. But who knows? Maybe Cubans are legal by then and after the initial rush, production meets demand and the prices aren't what they used to be?

You might be able to pull this off. Problem is, you'll need to lay down some serious capital to start up with if you hope to make any appreciable profits down the road. You'll face dangers from gov't seizures (if they're Cubans, which they'd almost have to be), beetle dangers (you'll HAVE to freeze), and all sorts of other things that can go wrong.

Just a lot of negatives. Better to buy a box, tell yourself you're going to age it for 5 years, then smoke everything after 18 months. That's what I do.