I recently was in the mountains with a nice sunny day, but it was dry and the elevation was 2300 ft. While I knew the slight breeze might cause a funky burn, I wasn't expecting to have such a bad experience with my cigar. I had both a Rocky Patel Old World Reserve and a Davidoff Millenium Blend completely fail on me when I tried to smoke them.
Besides being a bitch to light, they just kept getting plugged, the wrappers popped at the top and bottom and the flavor was awful. The Davidoff Millenium Blend is one of my favorite cigars and this one was in good shape when I drove out to the mountains, so I'm thinking the weather conditions played the bigger role in the poor experience I had.
The cigars were not crunchy when I rolled them and they weren't too moist. I kept them in tubes and smoked them within 36 hours of getting to the mountains. They were in Davidoff tubs which have an air vent, and the travel humidor they were in had a boveda packet so they should have been in good shape.
Is this a well known issue of smoking cigars in these conditions?
I'm really bummed as I feel like I wasted two cigars!
Besides being a bitch to light, they just kept getting plugged, the wrappers popped at the top and bottom and the flavor was awful. The Davidoff Millenium Blend is one of my favorite cigars and this one was in good shape when I drove out to the mountains, so I'm thinking the weather conditions played the bigger role in the poor experience I had.
The cigars were not crunchy when I rolled them and they weren't too moist. I kept them in tubes and smoked them within 36 hours of getting to the mountains. They were in Davidoff tubs which have an air vent, and the travel humidor they were in had a boveda packet so they should have been in good shape.
Is this a well known issue of smoking cigars in these conditions?
I'm really bummed as I feel like I wasted two cigars!