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[kern47]

Don't think there's a bad yr for Monte No4's in the last decade at least. Sure they'll be fine & ready to smoke. Question is are you going to leave them in the cardboard packets or take them out & store with your singles? Personally, I leave in tubes as I believe that adds something to the maturing process & ultimate flav but the cardboard adds nothing & is a mould risk if your humi's are slightly high - so personally I remove from cardboard.

You know what... I was literally just about to make a new post regarding the cardboard. I'd not thought about the potential mold issue, but I was more concerned about what the cardboard would do to the flavour, although I am smoking one now and its lovely so far, even after 6 years in cardboard, although I cant help thinking they'll be better kept in a wooden humidor.

So yes, I intend to ditch the cardboard and get them into my wooden humi as soon as I can after a reshuffle

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[Simon Bolivar]

First new additions for a while.

2014 Montecristo No.4, fingers crossed this was good year...

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Don't think there's a bad yr for Monte No4's in the last decade at least. Sure they'll be fine & ready to smoke. Question is are you going to leave them in the cardboard packets or take them out & store with your singles? Personally, I leave in tubes as I believe that adds something to the maturing process & ultimate flav but the cardboard adds nothing & is a mould risk if your humi's are slightly high - so personally I remove from cardboard.

[kern47]

First new additions for a while.

2014 Montecristo No.4, fingers crossed this was good year...

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[Haaltert]

I've not been able to find much info on them, dont seem to be anywhere near as popular as the Vigia or Reyes, but I like the vitola so decide they were worth a punt.

Unfortunately not a lot of age... MSL DIC 19, but I'll be trying to put them away for a while

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They are young but in the end you have a number of years to smoke them slowly. I’m convinced you will like rhem


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[SHAMZ84]

Nice additions.

[Tomm783]

Nice additions buddy, I really enjoyed the Coloniales when I had one


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[kern47]

They’re very popular with those that have tried them, you won’t be disappointed. I’d say the best of the standard range


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Well that's good to know then! I was going to get the Reyes, but thought they were far too mainstream :P

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[simwells]

I've not been able to find much info on them, dont seem to be anywhere near as popular as the Vigia or Reyes, but I like the vitola so decide they were worth a punt.

Unfortunately not a lot of age... MSL DIC 19, but I'll be trying to put them away for a while

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They’re very popular with those that have tried them, you won’t be disappointed. I’d say the best of the standard range


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[kern47]

Love the Coloniales, congrats. Some age on them?


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I've not been able to find much info on them, dont seem to be anywhere near as popular as the Vigia or Reyes, but I like the vitola so decide they were worth a punt.

Unfortunately not a lot of age... MSL DIC 19, but I'll be trying to put them away for a while

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[Haaltert]

Finally found some Trinidad Coloniales to add to the Cuban stock.

Then some Brick House Corona Larga as a budget NC after seeing someone on here (I think) compliment them.

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Love the Coloniales, congrats. Some age on them?


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[kern47]

Finally found some Trinidad Coloniales to add to the Cuban stock.

Then some Brick House Corona Larga as a budget NC after seeing someone on here (I think) compliment them.

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[SHAMZ84]

Lovely haul you got there.

[Chris84Smith]

Haha I know what you mean, the problem with being on lockdown is I have way too much time to look at cigars and plan on what I want to buy next. I'm not going forward with the specific objective to age my stash for X number of years, but I figure that as long as I'm buying more cigars than I smoke (my pre-lockdown consumption was only 1-2 cigars a week at most) stuff will just end up ageing anyway. On the off chance that I do want to put specific cigars away, I'll probably get some cheaper cigars like Quinteros or JLPs so I don't feel tempted to dip into my other stuff.

[kern47]

It's been a slow day on Lockdown but it's actually been really fun to go back to the beginning of this thread and see how your stash has grown and developed since last September. Giving me lots of ideas about what mine might look like this time next year.

Yeah CAD did take over at times! But that's mostly due to me deciding the quicker I buy the Cubans, the longer I'll be able to age them. I've barely touched any of the ones I've bought so far as I'm trying to wait to get a couple of years on them at least. But I'm more than happy to smoke through the NC stuff without having to worry about that.

Only things I'm missing now really are Punch and Trinidad to complete the collection of the 'major brands' regular production stuff.

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[7kingsguy]

Nice haul. Plenty of variety there

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