The Power of the Humidor

This is the case with many cigars. You will hear some speak of their Cuban stock that it should rest or "Sleep" awhile before smoking them. This thought also applies to domestics as well. If you buy them from a smoke shop, sometimes their humidors are Are at High humidification do to patrons walking in and out of them, as well as sometimes they are low for the same reasons. This will obviously affect the smoke drastically, too wet bitter or sour, poor burn, too dry will be bitter sometimes, burn hot and fast, so on.

With a darker wrapper cigar, anytime is has time to acclimate to a RH and temperature, this enables oils to tranfer through the cigar (amongst a million little things that I am not the expert on) but this is what is called aging. Aging could occur as quickly as weeks, but usually envlolves much longer time lines. 2.5 months is enough time that the second cigar you purchased had the chance to acclimate to a "better" RH and Temperature, allowing the smoke to be more then it was when you smoked the first one.

When you read the threads on the benefits of aging, you have already experienced it at a certain level!!

Congrats and keep smoking!

Paul

My Dad smokes Dunhills and he's found that they need to age for at least two months before smoking.