Wrapper On or Off

[QuietC]

Does leaving the wrapper on in your humidor make any difference?

[cockyhoskins]

Personally, I take them off. Plastic is on there to keep the humidity in during transport, storage, etc. I think once they make it to your humidor, the cello has no use. However, depending on the size of your humidor, you may want to keep them on the flavored cigars, etc.

[CoventryCat86]

Personally, I take them off. Plastic is on there to keep the humidity in during transport, storage, etc. I think once they make it to your humidor, the cello has no use. However, depending on the size of your humidor, you may want to keep them on the flavored cigars, etc.

I KNEW there was a reason why this guy was one of the biggest waste of bandwidth this site had ever seen. What a freakin' DORK.

This is the type of cigar MISinformation this place does not need.

Anyone see how the University of South Carolina football team is doing so far this year?


BUNCHA FUGGEN LOSERS

There IS such a thing as the "Chicken Curse" and Clemson will kick your sorry asses all over Columbia this year.

GO TIGERS !!!

[QuietC]

cool, my thread is coming back

GO OHIO STATE

anyways, i keep the cello on most of mine now, accept for a few that I'll be smoking soon.

[CoventryCat86]

LOL!!

Sorry QuietC but being a PennState fan, I have to respectfully disagree with you. BIG game this weekend for the Nittany Lions againt OSU

Now this next statement is really gonna get ya:

When PennState is out of the running in the BigTen (which has happened A LOT in the past few years) I then root for

MICHIGAN



BUT if Michigan is also out of the running for a National Championship or if Ohio State goes to the Rose Bowl THEN I pull for OSU. I guess I mean whoever wins the Michigan/OSU game I then pull for because I like the both of them. I root against all other BigTen teams when they play PSU, OSU or Michigan.

Sorry, will you ever speak to me again?

Oh yeah, cello ON because it PROTECTS the cigars from damage. The fancy Padrons and all the Havanas I smoke don't come with cello so I rarely have to deal with the cello on/cello off dilema anyway

[QuietC]

LOL!!

Sorry QuietC but being a PennState fan, I have to respectfully disagree with you. BIG game this weekend for the Nittany Lions againt OSU

Now this next statement is really gonna get ya:

When PennState is out of the running in the BigTen (which has happened A LOT in the past few years) I then root for

MICHIGAN



BUT if Michigan is also out of the running for a National Championship or if Ohio State goes to the Rose Bowl THEN I pull for OSU. I guess I mean whoever wins the Michigan/OSU game I then pull for because I like the both of them. I root against all other BigTen teams when they play PSU, OSU or Michigan.

Sorry, will you ever speak to me again?

Oh yeah, cello ON because it PROTECTS the cigars from damage. The fancy Padrons and all the Havanas I smoke don't come with cello so I rarely have to deal with the cello on/cello off dilema anyway

OMG, DON'T EVER PM ME AGAIN haha
However, I did root for Michigan when they were playing Michigan State only because M.S. was better ranked.

So if Ohio State isn't playing, I always root for the underdog.

[superman78]

LOL!!

Sorry QuietC but being a PennState fan, I have to respectfully disagree with you. BIG game this weekend for the Nittany Lions againt OSU

Now this next statement is really gonna get ya:

When PennState is out of the running in the BigTen (which has happened A LOT in the past few years) I then root for

MICHIGAN



BUT if Michigan is also out of the running for a National Championship or if Ohio State goes to the Rose Bowl THEN I pull for OSU. I guess I mean whoever wins the Michigan/OSU game I then pull for because I like the both of them. I root against all other BigTen teams when they play PSU, OSU or Michigan.

Sorry, will you ever speak to me again?

Oh yeah, cello ON because it PROTECTS the cigars from damage. The fancy Padrons and all the Havanas I smoke don't come with cello so I rarely have to deal with the cello on/cello off dilema anyway

There is no way you can root for OSU and UM .Sounds like who ever is good you just root for.You like a bad baseball team ,just pick a team and stick with them

[hex1848]

Yeah, I usually take most the cello's off. Sometimes I'll leave a couple of cigars in the humidor with the cello's just in case I need to travel with a couple, or give them as gifts.

[WayneSMT]

Off - I just like the way they look and I think it is easier for the cigars to age with the cellos off. But that is just me.

[Cigar Jack]

I love mine one. That way my cigars don't get STD's... errr wait wrong topic.



Actually I do keep it on, because I don't know when I might be sending
out a cigar bomb or be digging around a bit too roughly in the humidor
so it offers some added protection.

[labmonkey]

i always remove mine. i agree with cocky, it's my understanding it's only for protection during shipping and transport. in your humidor you want it off.

[Roham]

I have read thus far that(prefrence of course) it may be best to leave the plastic on so the taste from your expensive cigars won't mix with your cheap ones. Even though I am so new my opinion doesn't have any real weight, I would leave them on, to insure that when I smoke it, it tastes the way the maker intended it to taste. On the other hand, if you have some cheap cigars, taking the wrapper off and keeping them in a humidor with some pricier cigars might add to their flavour.

[MMAB]

This always seems to be a hotly debated topic on cigars.

The cello wrapper while for one is used to protect the cigar wrapper leaf from damage during shipping, is also there to help stabilize the cigar during storage and to keep the essential oils in the cigar. A cigar will still age with it's wrapper on, albeit a little bit slower than it would with it taken off.

BUT, storing a cigar with the wrapper off for extended periods requires very stable temp and humidity control. This is next to impossible when using humidors that most of us have. Every time you open your humidor, particularly in the winter months when ambient rh is an average of 40%, you are exposing it to a radically different environment than exists inside of it. I believe most of us open our humidors at least once a day and sometimes more making them just a bit unstable.

The cello wrapper protects the cigar from sudden changes in rh% and helps keep in flavor.

Keep in mind also that most of us don't really age cigars anyway. We smoke them! I have a moderate sized cabinet humidor. I'll be damned if any cigar has a chance of lasting more than eight months in my humidor before its smoked anyway!

Also, alot of cigars aren't meant for aging. I understand that any Dominican cigar should be smoked within the first two years of it's life. Going much more beyond that, the cigar begins to mellow too much and loses flavor.

I once bought a couple of boxes of El Rey del Mundo Reserva Saladas. Beautiful sun grown wrappers. A nice toro sized cigar. Sweet, spicy. I went through a box and thought I'd hold on to the other for a couple of years to see what happens. The ERdM's came in cabinet boxes, bundled with a ribbon. The cigars had no cello. Just the cabinet cedar box. Two years later, I lit one up and they were flat and boring having lost all of their original spiciness.

From then on, any cigar I buy that has no cello gets smoked right away. Even one of my local dealers agreed with me stating he felt that the cigars that sit in his humi-rooms for a long time with no cello lose flavor.

I am also aware that some manufacturers ship "green" cigars. Cigars that haven't had the chance to rest up properly before being smoked. A cigar can "rest up" in the box with the cello on with no trouble.

It's your choice and this was my two cents!

[hex1848]

very well written, thank you MMAB.