Can the way you store cigars promote an oily wrapper

[LeafLover]

Can a cigar with a drier, papery wrapper be stored to promote more oils?

Will you store it in a lower or higher RH?

A cooler or warmer temperature?

Conversely, if you store your cigars in a lower RH, let's say 40, does your cigars lose it's oils?

I'm curious as I have HUP Mag 46's that are dark and oily and I've been enjoying them over a couple of years. I recently bought a 50cab Mag 46 that are less oily and have a dryer, lighter wrapper but aren't of the same caliber in taste as the aforementioned. All these Mag 46's are of the same year '08.

[Smallclub]

Storing in jar is supposed to promote the production of oils and, according to cigar merchant Vahé Gérard, "to accelerate the evolution of your cigars’ taste and strength".

Never worked for me. All I got was over-humidified cigars…

[nikesupremedunk]

I hear spraying oil on them will give an oily wrapper..

On a serious note, I don't think it's possible to turn a less oily wrapper more oily just from a certain way of storing them. That's why people go out of their way to buy PSP and HQ boxes.

But Incase I'm wrong, I would like to know as well.

[Dbone]

I swear I have purchased boxes which have little to no oil on the wrappers, very little aroma as well. Sock them away for 6 months and I find them transformed. Oil on the wrappers and a nice aroma. I wouldn't say this can be expected with every box, but in my experience it has. Most of my stock is from 2008 and 2009, I don't think I have an dry wrapper in the lot.

By the way Arnold, your package left today LOL

[Colt45]

Sock them away for 6 months and I find them transformed.

My thought as well. My personal feeling is that as long as the cigars contain oil, fairly consistent storage conditions / close quarter storage,

will allow for oil migration.

But..... is it the eventual oil on the wrapper, or time in storage which makes for a "better tasting" cigar?

3 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop.....

[Orion21]

I agree with Dbone. I have boxes where the wrappers came in looking dry, but over 6+ months have transformed into silky glistening sights to behold. I would imagine that the proper storage will help the oils in the internal blend to permeate the wrapper. Anyway, that's my theory.

[Cohiba Stevie]

Interesting thread.

All my stock is way to recent but this is something I will keep in mind after my stock gets some decent age.

[LeafLover]

I swear I have purchased boxes which have little to no oil on the wrappers, very little aroma as well. Sock them away for 6 months and I find them transformed. Oil on the wrappers and a nice aroma. I wouldn't say this can be expected with every box, but in my experience it has. Most of my stock is from 2008 and 2009, I don't think I have an dry wrapper in the lot.

By the way Arnold, your package left today LOL

xoxo

[Wil]

Interesting question. I recently got a couple of robustos rolled by Dilia Hernandez when I was in the UK. In the couple of months they have been in the humi, they have become more oily looking.

[brutusthebuckeye]

Like Dbone said ...let them sit a bit .....and dont look at them...

[SerieT]

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[Hubba]

I know I may be one of the few out here, but I actually prefer a slightly dryer, red-colorado wrapper as opposed to the dark oily ones. I find it lights and burns more evenly. The only exception is the various LEs out there that always have that dark oily wrapper (to various degrees of course) but those are the ones I want dark and sleek as opposed to dry and red.

I can be way off here, but I'd rather have the "oils" on the inside of the cigar as opposed to evaporating on the outside.

100% agree with Shlomo>

[LGC]

I always avoid dark, oily cigars that are young. I prefer mostly claro colorado... with colorado and colorado rosado on the darker end of the spectrum. If you want dark and oily, buy all ELs

[Diamondog]

I have a box of P2's and Upmann 2's that have been sitting for well over a year, wrapper looks exactly the same as it did when they arrived, no oil to speak of kept at 68/68, they certainly smell real good but oily they ain't and ain't ever gonna be no matter how they are stored...