
About cigar storage
The earliest forums have been full of great minds who have described cigar aging very accurately and scientifically, and have come to many well-tested conclusions. However, I have also noticed that much of the aging and preservation knowledge does not completely compensate for the regional differences between cigar smokers in different parts of the world. Our country is so vast that the temperature and humidity of Beijing and Guangzhou, Shanghai and Chengdu, Urumqi and Haikou, and so on, are very different from each other during the four seasons, as well as the temperature and humidity of home interiors throughout the year, making the proper preservation of cigars much more difficult for us Chinese than it is for the small European countries. Regularized preservation we all understand, how to solve the geographical differences seems to be the problem. However, to go from city to city does not show, not in a certain city to experience a few years, write out things are false, so for geographical differentiation, I think it is still left to different regions of the cigar friends to add the best, here the bottle is still to give some regular aging, adjusting the recommendations.
Generally speaking, a finished cigar enters the aging cycle only after it has been rolled, and tobacco alone is not counted in the aging period of a cigar. Freshly rolled cigars are usually wet because the tobacco is softened beforehand, and the wrapper is wrapped in a cloth with the right moisture content to prevent cracking and breakage during rolling. After rolling, the fermentation of the cigar is actually static, simply put, it is like curd that has just been put into the fermentation room, it has not yet begun to grow mold and mildew hairs, and it will have some of the sweetness of the tobacco leaf itself. Under the right environment and humidity, the resting cigar has enough conditions, so the fermentation begins, and ammonia will be released along with the fermentation. At this point, the cigar is just like curd that has just begun to grow hairs, and the flavor is not yet mellow enough, with a lot of miscellaneous flavors and a sense of spiciness, even in light cigars. I've noticed that this is also the case with some actual non-Cuban cigars, where new releases come out with a full-bodied and slightly off-flavored cigar without an adequate preparation period. This is not uncommon with some of the regular Cuban cigars, and that would be the Bolivars, Patagas and the like, where you can get a rough idea of how long it's been out of the factory in terms of strength, and if you come across a glass or a Pat that isn't spicy at all, then it's been aged for at least 5 years or more.