The Maturing of your Top Rated Cigars
February 21st, 2010
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Some connoisseurs will tell you that the feeling of smoking a superior, aged cigar can compare only to consuming a fine, mature bottle of wine. They’re wrong. A rare aged smoke gives you more. Mature wines and cigars stimulate your senses of taste, sight, smell, and sound, but sense of touch is enjoyed only with cigars. And the right stogie aged the proper way will give you an unparalleled sensual experience that totally expresses the excitement of all five senses.Collectors are essentially enthusiastic about old Cuban cigars although they could also buy the odd mature box from countries like Honduras, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic or the Canary Islands. Older stogies produced before the December 1959 Revolution are typically described as “pre-Castro.” Those made before the announced U.S. Trade embargo against Cuba in Feb 1962 are “pre-embargo.”This does not imply a stogie must be more than three decades old before it’s considered properly matured. Sometimes marsh wheeling cigars develop a fully developed personality after around 8 to ten years of age. That implies that cigars should ideally have five to 7 years of storage once they arrive from the factory because aged tobacco is utilized in the blends of almost all premium hand-rolled cigars.Buying and smoking fine aged cigars may appear good for only the most devoted aficionado, considering the price tag and inconvenience. But once you try a well-matured cigar, you’ve got to have more. It is a bit like an obsession or collecting vintage sports cars. Of course, a fresh-off-the-factory-line Hoyo de Monterrey double corona or a new Porsche 911 each represent superb quality, but there’s something additional, something special, when you’re touching a vintage edition.
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