I just read a really interesting thread from early 2006
http://www.botl.org/community/forums/showthread.php/6526-Aging?highlight=aging+cigars
....and it seems like some of the guys on here were just sort of scratching the surface on aging NC's.
If you don't feel like reading the link, they were basically trying to discuss and figure out why CCs were so perfect for aging, but it was more rare to hear NCs talked about in this way...because after all, as the O.P. says, it's all tobacco so technically shouldn't NCs age well also?
So, here we are almost exactly 8 years to the day that this thread was started, and my question is to all of you BOTL veterans and even just long time smokers in general...
...what has time shown you?
Were these guys, and I know some of you are still here, correct in assuming that it was the boom of the full bodied NCs on the market that led to better aging of NCs?
Also, I was told to age my Anejo's, my Opus...did anyone ever discover any other particular NCs that lend themselves to age like the 2 I just mentioned?
Most of what I gathered in my short time here is that a lot of the NCs are the best at about a year or so then they start going downhill after that.
Any thoughts?
http://www.botl.org/community/forums/showthread.php/6526-Aging?highlight=aging+cigars
....and it seems like some of the guys on here were just sort of scratching the surface on aging NC's.
If you don't feel like reading the link, they were basically trying to discuss and figure out why CCs were so perfect for aging, but it was more rare to hear NCs talked about in this way...because after all, as the O.P. says, it's all tobacco so technically shouldn't NCs age well also?
So, here we are almost exactly 8 years to the day that this thread was started, and my question is to all of you BOTL veterans and even just long time smokers in general...
...what has time shown you?
Were these guys, and I know some of you are still here, correct in assuming that it was the boom of the full bodied NCs on the market that led to better aging of NCs?
Also, I was told to age my Anejo's, my Opus...did anyone ever discover any other particular NCs that lend themselves to age like the 2 I just mentioned?
Most of what I gathered in my short time here is that a lot of the NCs are the best at about a year or so then they start going downhill after that.
Any thoughts?