Aging - Can you age too long?

[pnoon]

Originally Posted by Bunker

I like Padron's comments in the Aficianado interview about how he wants to make cigars you can smoke now and not have to wait for, otherwise "it's like buying a BMW motorcycle and keeping it in the garage for a year before you ride it" or something like that.

I understand what Padron is trying to say but I think it is a bad analogy.
The bike is not consumable in that you ride it once and you're done. And I don't think letting the bike sit for a year will improve the ride.

[landhoney]

Originally Posted by pnoon

And I don't think letting the bike sit for a year will improve the ride.

You're right, and if it did people would be doing it.

Curious to hear if people have smoked 40+ year old cigars that were 100% known to have been stored properly that entire time, say by one individual or store? And was it expired or not?

What I'm getting at is that usually cigars of that age have questionable history with regard to storage conditions.

[Mugen910]

Originally Posted by landhoney

You're right, and if it did people would be doing it.

Curious to hear if people have smoked 40+ year old cigars that were 100% known to have been stored properly that entire time, say by one individual or store? And was it expired or not?

What I'm getting at is that usually cigars of that age have questionable history with regard to storage conditions.

That would mean:
1) They stored the cigars themselves for 40+ years
2) It was stored for them properly and they are at least 60yrs old by now.


** Peter is the only one that old around here.

[landhoney]

Originally Posted by Mugen910

That would mean:
1) They stored the cigars themselves for 40+ years
2) It was stored for them properly and they are at least 60yrs old by now.
** Peter is the only one that old around here.

First of all, exactly my point, probably rare but I'm sure it happens/happened.
Secondly, there are exceptions, buying ex-Dunhill stored cigars, someone you know (older) has been aging them for 20 years, then you stored for 20, etc (You don't have to be 60yrs old in either case). In these cases there is an established history that the cigars have been 100% stored properly.