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I'm so glad you brought this up. I'm a HUGE ROTT person. I don't buy into the hype that cigars require some magical resting period. Two of my best smokes were ROTT. Everyone seems to perpetuate this nonsense that your cigars are going to be unsmokeable for some arbitrary period after receiving them.

This is regurgitated so often online that even new smokers think they're prohibited from smoking even one cigar from a box for at least 90 days. Imagine you've never smoked a cuban cigar and just received a box of 25 in the mail and you're afraid to smoke one for 3 months.

The first stick I smoked from this box was ROTT and it was the best cigar experience I can remember in a long time. I've since had the box for a month and am already half way through the top row. They have all been bangers. Maybe 1 out of the 6 or so has dipped below a 90 for me. Glad I have another box of these in transit.  

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2 hours ago, shortsmokes said:

I'm so glad you brought this up. I'm a HUGE ROTT person. I don't buy into the hype that cigars require some magical resting period. Two of my best smokes were ROTT. Everyone seems to perpetuate this nonsense that your cigars are going to be unsmokeable for some arbitrary period after receiving them.

This is regurgitated so often online that even new smokers think they're prohibited from smoking even one cigar from a box for at least 90 days. Imagine you've never smoked a cuban cigar and just received a box of 25 in the mail and you're afraid to smoke one for 3 months.

The first stick I smoked from this box was ROTT and it was the best cigar experience I can remember in a long time. I've since had the box for a month and am already half way through the top row. They have all been bangers. Maybe 1 out of the 6 or so has dipped below a 90 for me. Glad I have another box of these in transit. 

Well I’d agree with a lot of what you said, but:

Cigars need to be rested rott -if they are wet. Sometimes shipping in the right conditions, at the right time of year, can effectively dry box your cigars in transit and they can can smoke superbly rott. So I would advise no cut and dry method to treating you cigars rott, other than smoking them to see if they need more time down.

I often think that  “aging” is really about reducing moisture content in the cigar.- that’s it, there is no magic in it. Having said that, reducing moisture content slowly, over time, nets the best results. Some might call this aging.

 

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46 minutes ago, KnightsAnole said:

Well I’d agree with a lot of what you said, but:

Cigars need to be rested rott -if they are wet. Sometimes shipping in the right conditions, at the right time of year, can effectively dry box your cigars in transit and they can can smoke superbly rott. So I would advise no cut and dry method to treating you cigars rott, other than smoking them to see if they need more time down.

I often think that  “aging” is really about reducing moisture content in the cigar.- that’s it, there is no magic in it. Having said that, reducing moisture content slowly, over time, nets the best results. Some might call this aging.

 

Agree. Been using a particular vendor for 20 plus years and many arrive terribly over humidified. A couple months down is standard and would call it acclimation and not aging. For my taste I normally let them rest for a period. Given todays prices my Trinis and Cohiba always go down. Too pricey to be experimenting with rott. BCJ and other perlas or minutos maybe a different story.

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I hear you! My price paid per cigar hasn’t  changed much, but my cigar has gotten noticeably slimmer.

I don’t take many chances with expensive cigars either but dry box everything with less than 10years on it.

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9 hours ago, KnightsAnole said:

So I would advise no cut and dry method to treating you cigars rott, other than smoking them to see if they need more time down.

You put it much more eloquently. 

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This is similar to my experience too and there's another review of a P2 smoked ROTT that was wet and sounded pretty awful.

11 hours ago, KnightsAnole said:

Well I’d agree with a lot of what you said, but:

Cigars need to be rested rott -if they are wet. Sometimes shipping in the right conditions, at the right time of year, can effectively dry box your cigars in transit and they can can smoke superbly rott. So I would advise no cut and dry method to treating you cigars rott, other than smoking them to see if they need more time down.

I often think that  “aging” is really about reducing moisture content in the cigar.- that’s it, there is no magic in it. Having said that, reducing moisture content slowly, over time, nets the best results. Some might call this aging.

 

 

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