Old cigars

[Ken Gargett]

I have to confess that my only experience, regrettably, with older cigars has been a few that Rob has been kind enough to get for me, best of all a box of 7-year-old Lusi’s which have been fantastic. At the Festival’s Gala dinner, the auctioneer, a Pom, couldn’t help but tell us how good the cigar he was smoking was. He’d been given it by a friendly cigar merchant in London (Rob, you clearly have some serious competition there). I didn’t catch the brand as, like everyone, I was a bit stunned to hear it was from 1886. Anyone out there do better or even come close? Any other thoughts to share on older cigars?

kbg

[El Presidente]

Seriously, you could have given the Pommy git a Jan 05 Monte 4 and he wouldn't have known the difference.

Without doubt, the worst auctioneer the world has seen. The first ever auctioneer to say " $100,000 dollars (actually it was euro)....that is a lot of money!"

Lord give me strength

[SMOKOZUNA]

The oldest I've smoked was a pre-embargo Flor de Farach Farachito. I'm not sure how old it was but it tasted like mold!! EWWW!! I'll stick to the recent cigars for now.

BTW, what's a Pommy git?

[Ken Gargett]

a pommy git is a term of endearment for our english brethren (and rob clearly wasn't aware that he was the latest member of the forum).

[hawkan2580]

I the oldest cigar I have smoked and enjoyed was a 1947 RA trump tubo.. no doubt had the tube helped in the preservation.. I have smoked some older then this, but they had all expired and was like smoking a shoe sole.

As it was my B-day not long ago, I celebrated that with a la ecsepcion longo -70s and that was a fantastic smoke.. highly recomended to get your hands on if you can.;-)