Something I forgot about cigars of the past...and why I miss the old leaf

[cigaraholic]

Thanks to FOH I made a very dear friend, unfortunately he lives on the east coast and I live on the west coast. He'd bought a five pack of old rare cigars and said the next time we get together we'd smoke one. I was back in NY a couple of months ago and we had lunch together, he said he wasn't smoking right now but gave me one to try. I almost smoked it that night but decided to save it for a special time. A few weeks ago I was talking to him and he asked if I'd smoked it yet, he wanted to know if they were still any good. I told him I'd smoke it in the next couple of days and let him know how it was. I toasted the foot and clipped the head, put it in my mouth to check the draw, the moment the cigar touched my lips I tasted this incredible truffled peanut brittle. That's when I remembered how incredible just the wrapper flavor was from cigars of the past. I could just suck on this unlit cigar and be heaven.

It was an hour and a half of cigar smoking nirvana!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Iznogood]

Do you know anything more about it, how old is it?

[cigaraholic]

86....4000

[SCgarman]

Unfortunately most of us will never experience smoking a 30 year old Davidoff as most are in the hand of wealthy collectors and not the common middle class aficionado. So, ignorance is definitely bliss. And from what I have read the old Cuban tobacco strains may have been sublime, but also had their downfalls. I would be curious as to how many boxes of Cuban Davidoffs are still in existence in the world.