How can you guys have so much patience?

[Edward7]

How do you guys let your cigars nap for so long? Routinely I read someone comment that they are going to let their newest box sit for 1-3 years and sometimes longer. What in the world are you smoking in the meantime? Did you accumulate many boxes over many years of smoking? Do you buy aged stock to cover you until your other stock ages?

i only started to buy CC’s since my visit to Cuba in May and since then I have smoked about 1-3 daily. So far have probably about 10 boxes of 25 or so stocked and buy about 2-3 25 boxes per month from Rob and Diana. I guess i buy and smoke them and keep replenishing as quickly or slightly quicker than I smoke them. 

Maybe in 10 years and 30k later, I may have too many cigars and far too little time to smoke and actually be able to age something!

[JohnS]

After a while you find that your cigars age, pretty much without you thinking about it. There's different ways of going about it. One is to smoke a few from a box and come back later, or alternatively,  smoke through half a 50 cab and then move onto another 50 cab, as El Pres routinely advocates for Por Larranaga Petit Coronas, for example.

[Edward7]

20 minutes ago, JohnS said:

After a while you find that your cigars age, pretty much without you thinking about it. There's different ways of going about it. One is to smoke a few from a box and come back later, or alternatively,  smoke through half a 50 cab and then move onto another 50 cab, as El Pres routinely advocates for Por Larranaga Petit Coronas, for example.

I think the volume of cigars I smoke and the quantity I have doesn’t allow for it yet. The only ones I haven’t ripped through are the ones that were duds to begin with. One box of too tightly wrapped BBF and a box of Partagas Mille Fleurs that is one dimensional flavor wise for example...

[LGC]

Buy more than you smoke. Smoke less if necessary. Buy aged if possible. I was buying no more than a box per month in college, but managed to start adding up boxes over the past 18 years. Although, aged boxes were easier to come by as well.

[bpm32]

Seeing as how it takes 30 seconds to impulse-buy a box of cigars and 25 hours to smoke it, the problem kind of resolves itself.....

[dvickery]

3 hours ago, Brandon said:

Buy more than you smoke. 

Bingo

derrek

[luckme10]

Keep the desktop humidor close and convenient. Store the large humidor somewhere more impractical to get to. Set ahead of time which cigars you're going to ration for say the month and keep your hands out of the big humidor. 

[nKostyan]

Not all cigars require aging.
Many vitolas can be smoked young. There are cigar aged by the manufacturer of this line Anejados or Habanos-Aged. There are vendors (including Rob) who specifically make cigars aged for us, for which we are very grateful to El Presidente. There are vintage hunters who are looking for shops in the backwater of Europe where God has forgotten shops where cigars of past years have not yet been sold.

[anacostiakat]

There are a number of strategeries.    There is the Twofer!    Buy two boxes.  Lay one down and smoke one. 

[M777]

A nice size sized stash of aged nc’s, a much larger stash of aged cc’s, smoke 2 sticks a week (2 a month if I’m lucky in the dead of winter) and replenishing stock levels whenever I can. 

[Ritch]

Buy more, a lot more.

I smoke at least one PLPC a day, some say age them for 5 years but I have some 2017 cabs that are just beautiful, those and Juan Lopez 2's are my daily smokes and then I try a random cigar out of a random box too and if it smokes well I smoke more out of that box, if not I try another random one. 

For instance I now have 5 cabs of Epicure 2's, I love them but they just are not ready yet...

[zeedubbya]

Knowing what aged cigars can be like is the key to having the patience to age them.  Finding the “sweet spot” is a game a lot of us like to play.  There is some sort of twisted satisfaction which comes from opening up a box of 2014 Bolivar Petit Coronas and resisting the urge to smoke them because I know in another year they will be great, in another 5 they will be stunning.  It’s the ultimate test of patience and delaying gratification.  It actually kind of makes me a touch irritated if I smoke a cigar which I know isn’t ready.  

This being said, if I smoked 3 a day, that patience would likely be quite different from the 4-5 a week I smoke now.  If I smoked that many I would have some cheaper, smaller smokes to fill the gaps while the more expensive boxes were aging.  Actually pipe smoking fills that gap for me now—there are some incredible pipe tobacco blends being made right now.  

[TBird55]

Buy at least 1 box a month, more than you smoke. after a year you have 12 set aside. It will add up before you know it.

[Derboesekoenig]

I have poor impulse control so I just went ahead and immediately dropped the $$ (would rather not say how much) immediately, so the aging will take care of itself. I can't smoke thousands of sticks. And then keep accumulating, albeit at a slower pace, from FOH. Down the rabbit hole!

[LLC]

You need two things (patience/will power) and as many have said by many more than you smoke. Do that long enough and you have lots if cigars naturally aging. Same strategy with wine. Expensive until you build up a big inventory and then becomes easier to maintain it. 

[Hammer Smokin']

smoking cigars can be for everyone.

 

but smoking aged cigars is a little different.

 

having the funds to build a collection large enough to smoke only aged cigars - well, that takes some coin! (and really isn't for everyone)

[jackupster]

Buy more than you smoke which has been stated above. You also can get boxes with 2-4 years on them in 24:24 all the time. Yesterday Prez had Monte Medio Corona with almost 3.5 years already. Recently I have bought PLPC with 1.5 years and some BPC with 2.5 years. 30days down and you can start sampling them. 

[Islandboy]

10 hours ago, anacostiakat said:

There are a number of strategeries.    There is the Twofer!    Buy two boxes.  Lay one down and smoke one. 

Yep, I use this one. But I think I have to move up to threefers and maybe fourfers if I’m ever going to make it to 5 years. Some sticks are just so good now. The conundrum comes with not knowing how they will change with time.

[dar24601]

Well cutting back to 1 a day will help.  As already said as your stash grows it’ll become less of a problem.  Also several good budget choices for sticks to smoke young.  PL panatelas, Trinidad Reyes, monte #4 are a couple that are enjoyable young.

[TBird55]

Also, have a few adult beverages, before before 24 24. That's a sure way to increase your inventory.

[Derboesekoenig]

Cutting back to 1 per day def helps, and the less you smoke, the more you appreciate them as well. I've definitely noticed this, and will cut back and/or take a break here and there. I also smoke a pipe, but sparingly.

[Edward7]

17 minutes ago, TBird55 said:

Also, have a few adult beverages, before before 24 24. That's a sure way to increase your inventory.

Totally know what that's like haha. I usually make my largest bulk orders while gf is sleeping and I am buzzed laying down looking at my phone. It's a bad thing that I have all my credit cards memorized so I can fire away.

55 minutes ago, SenorPerfecto said:

There is only one trick. And if you smoke long enough, you will get there, believe me.

 

When you first start, you think, "I'll buy a humidor! with space for 30 sticks that will be plenty for a month or more!"

Then you buy a wineador and you think, "Oh man, now I can age boxes!"

Nope.

The trick to ageing cigars is having so many cigars that you begin to forget what you have. This means hundreds/thousands of cigars.

It sounds crazy when you're starting out. But eveytually you start adding a bigger and bigger chunk of your total living budget as cigar expenses. And then one day you'll be rummaging through coolers and say "When did I buy THESE?"

And there you will be.

 

Well hey, you're in LA, I'm in LA, let me know if you ever need help getting rid of your surplus LOL

[BG1165]

You get started and then you wake up one day. And it has happened.

[Habana Mike]

9 hours ago, BG1165 said:

You get started and then you wake up one day. And it has happened.

Pure cigar zen this....awesome!

[joeypots]

If you want smoke one to three  aged Cuban cigars daily you're going to need a better job. Some refer to the love of Cuban cigars as a hobby, an obsession, or the dark side. Smoke what you like, buy, buy, buy. and give your self time to know what suits your taste and acquire a collection. Buy a big good quality cooler for storage and then buy another. Tell your significant other that you can always sell your cigars for a profit if there are questions about the amount of money you are spending on your new hobby.