How "Deep" is "Deep"?

[TBird55]

When you decide to go deep on a certain  cigar,  how many cigars do you consider deep, on a regular production cigar? I used to think if I had a couple of boxes of a cigar, that was deep. Then it went to 100, now 200. Just curious on whay otters think. 

[Islandboy]

I’m still wading in the kiddie pool, with no more than 2 boxes of any one cigar. Plus I’m still enjoying playing the variety game. I do aspire to build up some aging stock though, on a few select sticks....perhaps 3-4 boxes. I’m sure that would help me sleep better at night 

[1LegLance]

These days I don't go more than 3-4 boxes of something that is a real regular like RASSC, Boli Cjr or Jose Piedra.....and that is mainly due to space as I run 2 large wine coolers and a couple desktops.

However my younger son is about to move out for college and I am thinking of a wall unit in his room which would expand capacity  Often on craiglist they pop up when a smoke shop closes down.

If that happens I will go 5-7 boxes on the stuff I love that is being DC'd

[Troels]

2-3 boxes is as deep as ive been - i want variety and my cigar budget doesnt allow me to go both wide and deep

[havanaclub]

When you decide to go deep on a certain  cigar,  how many cigars do you consider deep, on a regular production cigar? I used to think if I had a couple of boxes of a cigar, that was deep. Then it went to 100, now 200. Just curious on whay otters think. 

Wait! Did you say 100-200 boxes? That's not deep, that's a massive trench.


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[Guest Nekhyludov]

This forum never fails to make me feel like a dilettante 

For me, "going deep" means I'm investing in a box. As in, one box of 25 cigars. I have a single 50 cab of Punch Punch. I just don't have the storage or the budget to maintain any variety and stock quantity, too. My wife would murder me in my sleep if I came home with a coolerdor or a wineador! 

[rhcolbert]

25 minutes ago, Nekhyludov said:

This forum never fails to make me feel like a dilettante 

For me, "going deep" means I'm investing in a box. As in, one box of 25 cigars. I have a single 50 cab of Punch Punch. I just don't have the storage or the budget to maintain any variety and stock quantity, too. My wife would murder me in my sleep if I came home with a coolerdor or a wineador! 

2nd!

[BrightonCorgi]

4+ plus boxes is deep for me.

[GrouchoMarx]

To me, deep would be 3 boxes. 1 to smoke, 1 to age, 1 for backup. Corporate policy.

That being said, I also consider my favourites. I have 6 boxes of coros right now, and I always maintain a smokable stock or RyJ Churchills and Monte eddy.

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[CigarAsh]

I only go deep on things that are limited time availability like ELs and REs.  Deepest I've gone on any of these is 8 or 9 boxes of the Club Allones. Did 6 or 7 of the Grande Edmundo when they came out. That's still not a lot of cigars because these were all 10 count boxes. For most of these one time cigars, the price and the ring gauge size has become too ridiculous to really want to go deep.

For regular production, I like a box to smoke and a box or two behind them in the aging rotation.

[Dave001]

im pretty deep in with h upmann PC's they have their own wineador LOL (20 boxes deep)

monte especial no 1's deep  wish I could go deep with cohiba lanceros but there just is never enough stock for me to find

[El Hoze]

I typically go about as deep as about 7-8 boxes at the high end, usually spread throughout various vintages. Cigars I am really deep on (6+ boxes) include Lusitanias (aging), Sir Winstons (hoarding), Cohiba Sig VI/Robusto/Lanceros (smoke a ton, buy a ton, and like them aged), and if you added up all of of the various Opus X cigars I must have 300 (get alot as gifts, don't smoke alot, and like them well aged). 

After that it drops off pretty sharply for me. 

[stunod]

3 boxes is about as deep as I go.  

[TBird55]

1 hour ago, havanaclub said:

 

Wait! Did you say 100-200 boxes? That's not deep, that's a massive trench.


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Left off cigars after 100, 200. 200 boxes would definitely be trench worthy.

[Notsocleaver]

If I really like a cigar, I'll go through a box in about a year to a year and a half. If I buy a box and know I won't get to it for 3-5 years, I know I'm deep on that cigar. So it can be 2-3 boxes on top of the one I'm smoking, or just one extra box of a special occasion cigar like a Double Corona.

[shlomo]

If the pile of boxes is taller than me...that's deep. Until then, its just "a lot"

[stogieluver]

3 hours ago, Nekhyludov said:

This forum never fails to make me feel like a dilettante 

For me, "going deep" means I'm investing in a box. As in, one box of 25 cigars. I have a single 50 cab of Punch Punch. I just don't have the storage or the budget to maintain any variety and stock quantity, too. My wife would murder me in my sleep if I came home with a coolerdor or a wineador! 

Time for a second job, a larger humidor, and a new wife.  Priorities, man.  Priorities.

[PigFish]

4 hours ago, Nekhyludov said:

This forum never fails to make me feel like a dilettante 

For me, "going deep" means I'm investing in a box. As in, one box of 25 cigars. I have a single 50 cab of Punch Punch. I just don't have the storage or the budget to maintain any variety and stock quantity, too. My wife would murder me in my sleep if I came home with a coolerdor or a wineador! 

.. while said in jest, cigars are what you make of them. Some of us have a few loose screws!

There is noting wrong with just picking, cutting and lighting a cigar... enjoying it. When it becomes competitive, it gets spoiled. MHO!

Deep to me would have to be split into two categories. One would consist of a place in time, and the other would be over time. I would not want to really own untested cigars in massive amounts in one time period. You may never really know how good or awful the cigars are until you have consumed a number of them. Many 'nested' cigars that are great would be a blessing. Many 'nested' cigars that are mediocre would be just a storage problem!

Therefore cigars, many boxes of favorites, over time, is the best approach. You cannot own enough of those. There is no 'deep.' Deep does not exist for an excellent cigar unless mortality comes into play.

On the other hand there is the nested, untested cigar. I typically don't buy more than say 3 or 4 boxes, even of favorites in one time frame. Favorite or no, they could just be crappy cigars! The risk per box is the same statistically, but I don't want a nest of crappy cigars, ever...! I therefore spread that out over time, hoping to get some better and then some 'worse' cigars. Deep for a single vintage or say range of boxes a year, would perhaps be about 4 boxes.

-Piggy

[PartagasIV]

10+ boxes of a particular code is deep for me, i.e. 10 boxes of LRE 2009 PSD4's...

[polarbear]

I don't really go deep on regular production. Normally 25-35 sticks max

LEs, REs or anything that's going to be discontinued is another story
I've gone as deep as 150 (6 boxes) on a few of the discontinued Diplomatico vitolas and 30-50 sticks on some of the more enjoyable LE's and RE's

Price is the deciding factor on most of these. As much as I'd like to have 3 or 4 boxes of Bushidos buried away for a rainy day, I'd also like to eat and pay my mortgage

[MrGlass]

Going deep for me is 3 boxes, or in the case of really expensive sticks like the Magnum 56, one box.  There aren't that many that I've gone deep on.

[JohnS]

I'm with @polarbear and @MrGlass. With Australian taxes they have been, and will continue to be into the future, 2 or 3 boxes is deep for me. Plus, I prefer a wider range of Habanos marcas in my humidor/s.

[Bartolomeo]

I go midget deep on some things.....

[UnkleBead]

Depends how deep my wife lets me go?  That's what she said?  Ah anyway deep for me is an entire box.  Yep just one box. Budget and lack of time limit this.

[maxcjs0101]

The topic title should be changed to "Who hoards?"