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Do not put them in a fridge or a freezer.
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remy_lebeau8
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Out of curiousity why not? I had a few Rocky Patels that sat in my freezer door over a year and smoked fine.
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Makes sense but I've never had that problem.
I smoke a pipe now more then cigars. Got a few rough ones in a row and kind of stepped away from them for a while. Got 30ish pipes now...
LIVINRFANTASIES
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Way back when I worked in a factory an old Italian guy smoked some big fat black stinky cigars. Now and then he gave me one to watch me turn green. I actually got used to them for awhile.
While I am not a smoker I loved smelling my grand dad's pipe. I haven't seen a pipe smoker in 30+ years.
While I am not a smoker I loved smelling my grand dad's pipe. I haven't seen a pipe smoker in 30+ years.
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Casa Del Habanos on Sherbrooke & Rue MacKay. Best cigar emporium in Canuckistan. Even has a smoking lounge with staffed bar.
A lot of Native tobacco shacks on reserves now have Cuban filled humidors. Not Cuba cheap, but dodges a chunk of Provincial tax buying retail.
My everyday, not so special smoke are machine made Cubans, Guantanamera's. They're not Hoyo Double Corona's, but they're pretty damn good for $0.95 a stick.
But I'm also partial to Honduran USA market Hoyo Excalibur's. As good as mid-grade Cubans, and they used to be cheap until the last round of Federal tobacco sin tax.
Thanks Obama!
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I have one cuban that I have been saving for a special occasion. The countries all around cuba have imported (legally or not) cuban seed over the decades. I would guess there is little difference between cigars of similar quality from either location.
ps Bring me some cubans!!
Cuban cigars were once the gold standard, but the Revolution scattered the best growers all over Central America. They took their seeds and knowledge with them. These day, cigars as good as any Cuban can be had from Mexico to Nicaragua.
I don't worry about storing my cigars. They don't stay around long enough for it to matter.
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It's called denial.
Honduras, Nicaragua & even the Dominican make better than decent cigars. But at the high end, stick for stick, Dominican Opus X vs. Cuban Hoyo Double Corona, there's no comparison.
JR Tobacco has some excellent non-Cuban better than barely smokeable choices. But a Belinda or (Dominican) Macanudo will never be as good as the real article.
A Hyundai Genesis is a better than average car, but even a teenager in the backseat can tell right away it isn't, and never will be, an M5.
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Fridges and freezers are very dry environments. I bought my brother a fairly humidor for Yule. Had a humidistat that when box was full or nearly so always read about 70%. Never did put water in the humidifying sponge.
25 cigars in a box.
Spain has a free trade deal with Cuba. You can get Montechristos for 125$Cdn a box at airport duty free shops. $450 in Canadian duty free shops and 750$ retail.
If opened they go stale. If cigar last long enough to go stale, you are not a cigar smoker and probably won't be able to make the distinction if it's stale or not.
Guantanamera cigars are my choice. Machine made and very mild. A good starter cigar for wannabee aficionados. $125 a box retail.
Montechristos are hand rolled. They have a school for cigar rolling. In Cuba you can buy the student's hand rolled cigars. A very nice cheaper hand rolled cigar.
My brother used Tupperware when camping with a piece of dried apricot inside.
25 cigars in a box.
Spain has a free trade deal with Cuba. You can get Montechristos for 125$Cdn a box at airport duty free shops. $450 in Canadian duty free shops and 750$ retail.
If opened they go stale. If cigar last long enough to go stale, you are not a cigar smoker and probably won't be able to make the distinction if it's stale or not.
Guantanamera cigars are my choice. Machine made and very mild. A good starter cigar for wannabee aficionados. $125 a box retail.
Montechristos are hand rolled. They have a school for cigar rolling. In Cuba you can buy the student's hand rolled cigars. A very nice cheaper hand rolled cigar.
My brother used Tupperware when camping with a piece of dried apricot inside.
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Don't listen to the porky warlord. Freezers are not for cigars.
The lovely state of Maryland does not allow cigar sales over the web. It is said this law was to crack down on the underage buying of cheap cigars but the wording says otherwise. The online stores will not sell to anybody in the state.
Supposedly this will be fixed. Sometime. Soon.
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I was down in Florida Just after Christmas and made it a point to go to Ybor City. I picked up a few of the cigars made there but haven't had the chance to smoke them yet. I recently picked up a house brand cigar from a local tobacco shop. I can't of the name but the owner had letters from Nixon and Ford on the wall about how good these things are.
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I was told the hand rolled cigars in Florida are excellent smokes. Someday I will try one.
Not aware of any shops around here that roll them on site. I will look into that.
Not aware of any shops around here that roll them on site. I will look into that.
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More than a couple of people I have given Cubans to said smoking them made them nauseous.
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+1 mama. I freely admit that I'm a piker when it comes to cigars. Any cigar you may buy in a convenience store I don't enjoy....some cigars that I consistently enjoyed in the past are Marsh Wheeling - I've no idea where they are on the landscape. The cigar I had over Easter was the most enjoyable one I've ever had in my life by far, mild and flavorful; it was sweet.
A friend toured Cuba 12-ish years ago. It was a convoluted affair since he was American. On his trip they encountered a guy in the fields ...processing?...the tobacco leaves by hand. Long story short after a nice conversation the guy hand-rolled up 3-4 cigars and gave them to him. Idyllic and precious, I know, but I trust this person... plus he had them: rustic looking cigars unlike any I had ever seen in person.
I did not enjoy it at all. I was outside in the daytime and it was hot. We were at a music festival. Not the way I would typically want to enjoy such a thing but I finally had to throw it away. Smoking it was laborious. Indicative of the product as a whole? No clue. But I'd sooner eat dirt.
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Yeah, Meathead used the same "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!". cry to ban public smoking, and cigar bars, in CommieFornia. As if there were hordes of teenagers lining up to buy Davidoff humidors.
There's a shop in downtown Toronto that imports cured whole leaf Cuban tobacco and rolls in-house to whatever blend you like. You can even get him out to events to roll a la carte. Makes for a fun corporate party favour.
Spain is I think still the #1 importer of Cubans. Cigars & bullfights go hand in hand. Because of the volume though, Spanish market cigars are of a lower quality, even the same brand & size will differ noticeably.
