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Originally Posted by Raralith
The problem with vaccum sealing is that it seems to screw with the cigar. Cigars need oxygen, they need to breathe, and while most NC's are already well aged, they still age a bit more. If storage is your problem, and you want to keep your cigars properly humidified, I might suggest start smoking, gifting, stop buying, or figure out how to store more; I would go for the last option. Got room under the bed? Buy one of those large, flat, plastic containers that can fit under there. Sure, it isn't air tight so you'll need to actively work on keeping the humidity up by rehydrating beads or adding more water, but it sure would be a hell of a lot better than what you are thinking.
Would it be good for the long term? Probably not.
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Are you sure cigars need oxygen? I have heard that before...but I'm not so sure it's true. I believe there is a theory out there by a well known, and well respected aficionado that cigars age best (long term) by reduction reactions rather than oxidative reactions. You would obtain this by properly sealing the cigars in an oxygen free environment. I wouldn't recommend vacuum sealing...but some sort of large ziplock should work. After the initial oxygen is used...the aging process would be a slow reduction process...which is supposed to give a better, more refined aged product.
But, like I said I believe this is all theory and I have no first hand knowledge. I have set up some of my stock...so that I can compare and contrast. I have some cigars sealed with zip lock...then the same ones from that year just in regular storage. All stored in the same humidor on the same shelf. At 10,15 and 20 years I want to pull out 5-10 from each box...and have 5-10 well respected BOTL sample and give opinions. I think that's the only way a debate like this will be settled.
