Wrapper On or Off

[cockyhoskins]

MMAB,

Well said. I keep the skins on. I don't want pollonation (spelling)....mixing of flavors.

This made me think of Austin Powers:

"So I started to work my mojo, to counter their mojo...we got cross-mojination and their heads started to explode!"

[tk325]

What about the aluminum humitubes - I have a RyJ I brought from Canada in 03 that I am trying to 'bring back to life' and wonder if I should place it back in the tube and then in the humidor?

Thanks!

[MMAB]

Supposedly, in a perfect world, a tubed cigar is supposed to be fine on it's own in any normal environment. That's "in a perfect world"......

Chances are that the tube has been opened once or twice or thrice or.........

If you know for 100% sure that the tube has never been opened and is sealed tight and hasn't been left on the dashboard top in the sun or on top of anything hot, it should be perfectly fine as is.

But since that is difficult to be sure on that, I would put it back in your humidor opened for a month or two, if not longer.

But if the cigar has dried out, sorry, it's hopeless. The flavor is gone and no amount of time in a humidor will bring it back.

Tubed cigars are great for travel, etc when you can't bring along your humidor. The industry claims as long as the tube remains tightly sealed, unopened, the cigar will stay fresh for a long, long time on it's own.

[tk325]

Well, it has dried out to some extent, but I have seen much worse.

We can always hope, can't we?

Thanks for your insight.

[Corona Gigante]

Until recently, I've been taking the cello off. I just liked the way the cigars looked in the humidor better that way. But recently I've started to keep to better cigars a bit longer than before and I'm starting to worry about the dreaded tobacco beetle. Presumably, leaving the cigars in the cello wrapper will reduce the risk of an infestation, right? And like the man said, cigars in my humi have very little chance of remaning in there more than--say--a year max, so aging is not really an issue. I'm thinking I'll be leaving the cellophane on in future.

[Kenyth]

Weevils chew right through cellophane. The holes in the plastic do help you see them better though.