Cuban cigars originate from the Caribbean, which has a tropical climate very different to Europe. As a natural product, your Havana cigars need to be kept carefully. They are used to being in a warm climate with a relatively high humidity.

Therefore they will need to be protected from extremes of temperature and humidity (particularly low humidity). This is particularly difficult to achieve in air conditioned and centrally heated buildings, where the air tends to get de-humidified and cigars can dry out very quickly. Some cigars come in aluminum tubes which can help preserve them in dry climates, however they tend to mature at a much slower rate than ‘naked’ boxed cigars.

Maintain a temperature of 16 C to 20 C and a relative humidity of 65% – 70%.

In the UK you will need a humidor to maintain the humidity of your cigars at various times of the year:

Humidity

At the least, keep your cigars in a tight fitting cupboard, drawer or box, away from radiators and other sources of heat. Pick the coolest indoor spot in your house. Leave the cigars in their original boxes as this will help preserve them, stop them from being damaged, and prevent any cross-tainting of flavours between different varieties of cigars stored in the same area. If the humidity in your make-shift humidor is low, a damp sponge in a cup will serve as a basic provider of humidity.

When you purchase your cigars from Tomtom, they will be packed in an airtight zip-loc bag, which will maintain the humidity of your cigars while you transport them from the shop to your humidor. These bags are a very efficient short term humidor, however we would not recommend that you leave your cigars sealed in these bags for more than one month. Although humidity will be maintained, cigars also need to be exposed to some fresh air to allow them to ‘breathe’ and age correctly.

A variety of desk-top and travel humidors can be purchased (see ‘Accessories’) and are an essential item for the dedicated cigar smoker (more information below).

Temperature

The danger of excessive temperature (combined with too much humidity) is that the cigars can either go moldy or be damaged by weavil attack. If cigars go moldy, this is generally not a problem, as long as it is spotted reasonably soon and the mould (or bloom) only appears on the wrapper leaf. The mould can be removed with a soft brush (e.g. a badger shaving brush) and then the cigar can be returned to store in the correct conditions. If mould gets into the end of the cigar, we recommend that you do not smoke it. Weavil, or tobacco beetle, is a more serious problem. If you see any small holes in your cigar, you should take immediate action. Please call Tomtom for further advice. Never store cigars near direct sunlight or for long periods exposed to sea breezes (salt will not enhance your smoke). The lower the temperature, the higher the humidity required to compensate.

Desk-Top Humidors

There is a very wide selection of these humidors on the market. The basic design requirements are that they are sealable (and generally lockable!), but allow the cigars to breathe. This is normally achieved by leaving the base of the box unvarnished: and no portion of the inner cedar box should be laminated. The box contains a fitting, which provides the humidity: this is normally a pad containing a sponge or chalk, which can be dampened. The box may also contain a dial showing humidity and temperature.

As a rule of thumb, the smaller the box, the harder it is to maintain a steady level of humidity within its confines. These humidors do not regulate temperature. The price range starts from about 125 for a plexi glass humidor, which will hold approximately 50 cigars to 2000 and above. A comprehensive selection is shown on our accessory page. Fabulous humidors can also be created out of antique boxes which many families have inherited as writing slopes or medal cases and which have since become redundant. This is a very cost-effective way of storing your cigars in a unique and personal humidor.

Travel Humidors

Ranging in price from 100 upwards. These are not suitable for long-term storage of cigars, however they are essential if you are moving about: the wrapper leaf on a handmade cigar is very thin and delicate and will easily damage. The safest way to prevent this is to keep the cigars in their original box, in tubes or in a purpose-built travel humidor.

Cigar Cases

Generally these do not offer humidification systems built in, but will protect your cigars if you take them in your pocket for the day. There are some metal tubes with hermetically sealed screw tops that will act in the same way as a cigar tube and seal in moisture. The majority are made from leather and offer protection from damage as well as limited protection from fluctuations in humidity and temperature.

Reviving Dried-Out Cigars

This is not an exact science and not always successful. Dry cigars need to be rehumidified very slowly and with care. We suggest you speak to us

Footnote

We do NOT recommend that cigars are kept in a refrigerator for storage. It is likely that the cigars will be dried out by this process and irretrievably damaged.

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a person told me that i shouldnt store ‘ scented’ cigars like the drew estate line,(acid, naturals,ambrosia) in the same humidor as montecristo, macanudo, bolivar, etc. is he right? he said that the ‘scent’ from the drew estates will get into the other cigars causing them to take on some of the smell and flavor of the drew estate. he said that sometimes it wont hurt the ‘traditional’ cigar but the mix might be a bad combination. i dont have a problem getting another humidor but will save myself some money if he isnt correct and there isnt a need to separate these cigars.

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Question by George Walker Bush: Best Convience Store Cigars?
What is your opinion on the best convience store cigars? And please spare me the ” They all suck! Go to a cigar shop!” Surely there must be at least one brand..

Best answer:

Answer by Mike Hock
macanudo, romeo y juliettau cant go wrong with thoseas long as they arent dry

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Tampa, Oct. 4—Thompson Cigar, America’s oldest mail order cigar company, is reducing prices by as much as 50 percent on thompson cigar.Giving its customers an enthusiastic opportunity to get more out of their money, as seen in its online retail store

Cigar samplers, which usually have a retail value of 0, are now available for as low as .95 in the company website. Cigar gifts like the Friday the 13th Sampler, which contains 13 packs of consorted tobacco from Alec Bradley to Rocky Patel,can now be acquired at more than half the price, along with other cigar accessories much as stigmatized cutters and lighters in its website

Thompson Cigar Store continually provides great deals on its online store, offering huge discounts on several finest cigars that helps keep customers wanting to buy cigars online all the time. Similar items from other brands would be ascertained more expensively than the ones happened here

As the operator of the largest inventory storage humidor—more than 300,000 cubic feet of storage—in the entire United States, Thompson Cigar commits to providing only the freshest cigar to its customers. The company is also considered an expert on cigars, having been in business for 85 years

Called the “best-kept secret in Tampa” Thompson Cigar provides an extensive selection of quality cigar products that suit every cigar lovers’ tastes. The company also offers the finest cigars in different price ranges

Cheap cigars and cigar gifts are available daily in the company’s catalog and website. Discount deals are regularly offered to customers both in the online and offline store

Thompsoncigar.com, the store’s website, features dozens of fine quality cigars and cigar gifts targeted to specific markets. It categorizes the cigar brands and types suited best for beginners and aficionados (more experienced users), making shopping for tobacco a lot quicker and less stressful

The company’s online catalog features pages of great deals on different brands like Arturo Fuente, Cuban Coronas, La Gloria Cubana, Swisher Sweets, Gurkha, Pinar del Rio, Corojo Cubano, Oliva, Panam, and Don Tomas among others. Each page offers cigar enthusiasts cigar gift sets at very commonsense prices

The online retail store is also home to different accessories such as humidifiers, lighters, cutters, ashtrays, fiber tubes, and cigar cases of different brands and models, all with reduced prices

People looking for discount cigars online want variety in choices. Settling for just about anything is not an option because fuming cigar is an experience that needs to be basked, something one can’t do if the cigar is of beggarly quality

The finest cigars can be a bit much on the pocket, but there are places where one can get them for lesser price, like Thompsoncigar.com

The company sees the importance of offering quality cheap cigars that is why consumers have the liberty of choosing from among the hundreds of cigar selection the outlet and website have to offer. Not only can one purchase dismissed cigar gifts, there are also several combinations or ‘combos’ that everyone can take advantage of

Thompson Cigar puts together cigars and other accessories. Customers have the option to purchase cigar combos that allows one to purchase cigars additive cigars; cigars already placed inside a case; cigars with humidors; cigars plus ashtrays; and cigars with cutters. This way, consumers acquiredt have to expend more when acquiring each item separately

Voted as the “#1 best-selling brand in America” in Cigar Insider Magazine, Thompson Cigar continues to provide only the finest quality cigars for its consumers at more affordable amounts

True to its quest to give customers the best service without the high price, Thompsoncigar.com also offers loose transporting for picked out cigar purchases

Bargain hunters can take pleasure various cigar samplers with slashed prices. The company website offers a had items list where one can happen antithetic samplers at affordable prices. Among those consumers can find are Mild and Cheap Cigar Sampler in 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s

But these are not the only discounted thompson cigar one can find at the online retail store. Customers can check up on out the Bargain Buyer section on the site to see all the antithetic dismissed items—both cigars and their accessories. There is also a couple of sections that list products all ascertained below and which people on a budget can appear at

Thompson Cigar is the country’s oldest mail order cigar company. It holds the Number 1 Postal Permit for Tampa and has always been consecrated to proffering only the finest cigars to its customers at prices that best suit them.

It happens to the biggest premium cigar aficionados out there: things start to get a little stale.

Not “stale” in the sense of dried-out. That can happen, of course, but it’s not likely to, if your humidor is set at the standard sixty-seven to seventy-four percent relative humidity range, and as long as the air temperature inside the box is between sixty-nine and seventy-four degrees. (It is, isn’t it?) No, this kind of stale has more to do with you than it does with the cigar. You feel like your premium cigar habit is in a bit of a rut, and you think it’s time to try something new.

Luckily, cigars come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and tastes, so if you’ve had enough of sweetish, almost-chocolaty oscuros you can move to the other end of the taste/color scale and try the pale-khaki-colored, dry, delightfully astringent tastes you’ll find there. If you’ve gotten into the habit of smoking long cigars that usually take around the same amount of time, every time, switch it up with some panatelas or cigarillos. If you’re in bad enough rut, it might even be time to make your own premium cigar sampler, going out of your way to pick cigars that don’t fit your usual taste profile.

But as above, so below: the premium cigar industry itself occasionally finds itself in the same sort of predicament. The standard shapes, sizes and tastes are already hitting their popularity plateau, and no one’s sure what the next breakthrough possibility is. At these times, makers of premium cigars often turn to one of the most reliable sources of business and cultural innovation: the past.

In the 1990s, when the premium cigar industry rebounded from a case of terminal stagnancy and even became, for the moment, somewhat trendy (while inspiring something of a late-1990s backlash as well), such a turn to the past for new ideas happened with the chocolaty, oily oscuro cigar mentioned above. These dark cigars occupy one extreme of the taste-color continuum–the informal rule by which light-colored, tan cigars are the driest and bitterest (features for which cigar aficionados prize them, as bitter hops make certain beers a once-in-a-lifetime experience), while, as cigar wrappers darken, the taste contained inside tends to get sweeter. The oscuro is like the bottom key on a piano, the lowest bass note on a guitar. It denotes how sweet and how dark a cigar can get.

But by the time of the so-called early 1990s “cigar boom,” oscuros were unpopular and very hard to find. This probably has more to do with an overall contraction in the market than with the oscuro itself, a kind of cigar that can be delightfully well-made as any other. With fewer people overall smoking cigars, flavors that had always been acquired tastes even among cigar fans were less likely to sell, and premium cigar makers stopped rolling them.
By the mid-1990s, though, you could find oscuros again–just as you can today, with the premium cigar industry continuing to function at a level far exceeding that of its 1991 state.

More recently, another nearly-extinct species of cigar has been recreated and is in the midst of repopulating cigar shops and online stores near you. The Salomon–a big cigar that comes in between perfectos and diademas in terms of its size–is tapered at both ends, and has always been popular in Cuba. Its unusual shape means that premium cigar makers have a difficult time finding rollers with the requisite talent and experience to make Salomons. But that hasn’t stopped La Flor Dominicana and Rocky Patel from adding new Salomon-sized models to their premium cigar lines–or from making quite an impression on taste-panelists and Cigar Aficionado (and other industry) reviewers alike.

im lookin for cheap books about wines, cognacs, whiskey and cigars.
in calgary please

i need to replinish my father’s cigar box for his birthday and those are what he mostly smokes.

http://www.cigar.com/accessories/viewaccessories.asp?subcatid=acc_case

How long can u store it before it goes bad?