What happens to your cigar collection when you're gone? In Episode 31, we have the conversation most cigar guys never think to have until it's too late.
We lost a good friend a few years back. Big Cheese was one of us. His collection was carefully built over years and deeply personal to him. When he passed, his family had no idea what they were looking at. We watched rare Cubans get tossed into shopping bags, driven across state lines with no humidification, and handed out at the funeral to people who didn't know what they were holding. It was tough to watch. And it's the reason we think every serious collector needs a plan.
We also get into:
Aging cigars: does it actually make them better or just different?
Snow smoking stories (yes, that's a thing)
Cigar bands and whether presentation changes how you experience a smoke
What we were smoking: Padrón, Liga Privada, Tatuaje La Union, Caldwell, and more
First cigar experiences and what NOT to hand a newcomer
Aaron joins us as a guest this episode, bringing serious collector knowledge and a Tatuaje La Union that generated some honest conversation about quality control.
Whether you have 50 cigars or 5,000, this episode will make you think differently about what you have built and who should have it when you are gone.
Subscribe, share this with your cigar crew, and leave us a comment with how you handle your collection planning.
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Recorded at the Smoke & Steel Lounge in Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania.
Presented by StogieReview.com
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro & What We're Smoking Tonight
2:02 - Snow Smoking Stories
4:44 - Mowing the Lawn, Working the Garage & Tongue Bite
7:24 - Cigar Aging: Does It Actually Work?
11:14 - Aaron's Background & Life as a Collector
13:18 - Honoring Your Collection: The Big Cheese Story
17:11 - Cohiba Behike at $500 a Stick: Worth It?
20:38 - Cuban Collectors & Cigars as an Asset
23:55 - How Many Cigars Do You Actually Have?
25:20 - How Often Do We Smoke?
27:03 - The Conversation Nobody Wants to Have
32:49 - Advice for New Cigar Smokers
35:00 - Learning to Retrohale: A Game Changer
37:56 - Getting Sick from Cigars (It Happens to Everyone)
40:39 - Nicotine Dependence: Cigars vs. Cigarettes
43:57 - Caldwell Cigars & The Lost and Found Line
47:03 - Cigar Bands: Do They Actually Matter?
51:56 - Canada's Cigar Laws & Niagara Falls
54:08 - Eddie on the Streets: Fumé in Reno
58:22 - Reaching Out to Makers & Dream Collaborations
1:01:19 - Movie Recommendation: The Rip
1:03:27 - Visiting Cigar Shops on the Road
1:07:01 - Car Smell Solutions for Cigar Smokers
1:09:12 - The Creed Knockoff That Won Over Our Wives
1:12:47 - Smoke and Steel Top 25 Cigars of the Year
1:16:22 - Humidor Talk & Quality Control
1:19:09 - Wrap Up & What's Coming Next
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