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    Default Well, I like them on baby!

    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!

    Last edited by MMAB; 03-13-2005 at 02:01 PM. Reason: spelling correction

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