Herfin' with Mike and Shawn - Gurkha edition

[Cigar Mike]

Originally Posted by shilala

At one time, and I don't know if they make them anymore, they made a cigar called a Nepalese Warrior. It was a nice thick maduro that tasted a lot like raisins. They were nice but they didn't age well (turned to zero flavor in just a couple months in the humi).

That actually might explain some of my experiences, then. The orders I've put in the past didn't survive long enough to be considered "aged" since I usually didn't like to keep more than a handful of sticks laying around at once. That'd be a good experiment....maybe I'll let some cook in the bottom of my humidor when I get home and see if they hold up or not.

Good info!

[shilala]

Originally Posted by mleska

That actually might explain some of my experiences, then. The orders I've put in the past didn't survive long enough to be considered "aged" since I usually didn't like to keep more than a handful of sticks laying around at once. That'd be a good experiment....maybe I'll let some cook in the bottom of my humidor when I get home and see if they hold up or not.

Good info!

Once you start "collecting" and long-storing cigars you'll find out real quick which cigars are made from the good stuff and which aren't.
You can think of cigars much like wine, really. Good wine ages well, lousy wine ages lousy. There's a scientific reason for all that, you'll pick that info up along the way.
Different parts of tobacco plants have different flavors, then they're aged differently, etc. The care taken in aging tobacco makes a huge difference. You'll figure all that out, too.
This cigar hobby is much like guns or knives or wine or coffee or fishing or hunting or whatever you enjoy. There's TONS of stuff to learn and it's all fun and interesting. This place is a giant library of wisdom, the guys have thousands of years of smoking and collecting experience to learn from.
I think you're gonna have an absolute blast.