A question for the brain trust

[T.G]

Originally Posted by squishy

He was trying to tell me that this is how you know if a cigar is aged properly. My gut told me he was way off on that fact. But since he supposedly hast a vast am mount ok knowledge I didn't say anything. My question to you guys is this normal or is there something wrong there. Also what is that white residue on the 'gar???

Your gut wasn't totally wrong - if it was plume on the cigar, it's a fallacy to believe both that "proper aging" guarantees it's formation along with the absence of it is somehow indicative of improper storage. Neither is correct, yet both are oft repeated.

Reality is that not all cigars will develop plume. Some never will, while some will develop it rather rapidly. An extreme example: I once saw some Dominican maduros, the regular line Cu*Avanas, develop it in about six months after they were purchased from CI when they were first released, so those cigars were probably at most a year off the rolling table. I've also seen plenty of old cigars that were stored properly and never developed the first lick of it. As far as I can tell, it's not really that common an occurrence, and when it does, I can't say that the cigar tasted any different to me.

As for the cigar you were shown, as Tom stated, without a decent photo it's hard to tell what you might have seen.