Padron Serie 1926 80 Years Salomon - Purchased 10/07/10

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Padron Serie 1926 80 Years Salomon - Purchased 10/07/10, Price 8/11/11, $27.75/Cigar

Rule of Threes: 3 weeks allows the cigars to stabilize. 3 months you will start to notice some age. 1-3 years will allow the cigars to fully age.3 weeks allows the cigars to stabilize. 3 months you will start to notice some age. 1-3 years will allow the cigars to fully age.

This is a chronicle of smoking the last four of sixteen of these cigars. The preceding cigars had all been superlative, well-worth the price. I had never smoked a cigar so rich in both strength and flavor. My plan had been to smoke one a month so as to finish them by 11/11.

Having very little experience with aging, I did not want to experiment with cigars of such high calibre. But I was too slow for this cigar, the particulars of which are below. Needless to say, I will smoke Padron Anniversary Cigars within six months of purchase to stay ahead of the one-year guideline for when aging will start about which I had read on this forum in posts about the rule of threes. But my memory was faulty and I just quoted how I misapplied even this guideline. But it was what I had thought to expect regarding aging.

The last unchanged cigar I smoked was in 07/11.

Clgar One - Smoked 08/13/11; strength full, flavor 20% of what it had been; wrapper had a grey cast over the original chocolate brown; foot was speckled with yellow.

Cigar Two - Smoked 08/14/11; strength full, flavor 50% first half, 80% continuing to ⅔ and 90% in the final third.

Cigar Three - Smoked 08/15/11; strength full, flavor 85%.

Cigar Four - Smoked 08/16/11; strength full; flavor 80%; wrapper speckled yellow here and there.