Maturing Your Favorite Marsh Wheeling Cigars
Some connoisseurs will tell you that the sensation of smoking a superior, aged cigar can compare only to consuming a fine, mature bottle of wine. They are wrong. A rare aged smoke gives you more. Mature wines and cigars stimulate your senses of taste, sight, smell, and sound, but sense of touch is enjoyed only with cigars. And the right stogie aged the correct way will give you an unparalleled sensuous experience that totally expresses the joys of all 5 senses.Collectors are primarily keen on old Cuban cigars though they could also buy the odd mature box from countries like Honduras, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic or the Canary Islands. Older cigars created before the December 1959 Revolution are ordinarily described as “pre-Castro.” Those made before the declared U.S. Trade embargo against Cuba in Feb 1962 are “pre-embargo.”This doesn’t mean that a stogie must be more than three decades old before it’s considered correctly ages. Sometimes marsh wheeling cigars develop a developed personality after about 8 to 10 years old. That suggests that cigars should ideally have 5 to 7 years of storage once they arrive from the factory because aged tobacco is used in the mixes of almost all premium hand-rolled cigars.Purchasing and smoking fine matured cigars may appear good for only the most devoted aficionado, considering the cost and inconvenience. But once you try a well-matured cigar, you’ve got to have more. It is a bit like an obsession or collecting vintage sports autos. Of course, a fresh-off-the-factory-line Hoyo de Monterrey double corona or a new Porsche 911 each represent superb quality, but there’s something additional, something special, when you are touching a vintage edition.Although, not all cigar experts agree, some say cigars are prepared to smoke when they leave the factory. Some also think that aging cigars makes no difference. Nevertheless, some have been observed to applaud a fine, old cigar when they smoke one.