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Expert: - 1/19/2010


Question
The cigars I buy are individually wrapped in cellophane, should I unwrap them before placing them in my new seasoned humidor?

Answer
Thank you for asking this important question.
ALWAYS leave your cigars in the wrappers if that's how they come. In the last 30 years I have seen all sorts of damage to unwrapped cigars. I have also smoked some of the best aged cigars that were in wrappers. The wrappers are not sealed and allow the cedar aroma to seep in. Wrappers will contain mold to one or a few cigars if it should break out and wrappers protect the wrapper leaf. If you forget to put water in the humidor the wrapper will protect the cigar for perhaps a week.
Aging
In 1998 I got 15 boxes of pre Castro Cuban cigars from the 1950s and all the cigars in wrappers were exceptional and in perfect condition. The boxes with naked cigars were 30% unsmokeable due to damage.

Mike

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M J Robbins

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Retailer of cigars and acc. since 1979. Cigars - I've smoked most including Cubans. Humidors- Testing humidors all the time. Selling humidors for 30 years. Pipes - I imported Briar and Meerschaum also repaired them in the 1980's. Lighters- Zippo distributor 30 years, expert in repair of old and new lighters although I haven't repaired an antique lighter in 15 years. Repaired thousands of butane lighters.

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30 years importing and selling retail and wholesale Pipes lighters,cigars and humidors. Designed and developed the only state of the art refirgerated mobile cigar humidor and the largest mobile cigar store in the USA. Repaired 50,000 pipes and lighters in the last 30 years. BR>
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2 years Fullerton jr college

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