Silly me! I told you everything you should do yesterday with your new humidor. Being the idiot I can sometimes be, I assumed you already purchased your new storage box.

Let me explain a few things for you. When you purchase a humidor, make sure it is lined with Spanish Cedar. Contrary to the name, it is not Spanish. Among the desirable properties of Spanish Cedar are the ability to hold moisture and not decay, it repells tobacco beatles, and it melds with the cigar to add flavor. Some cigars are even wrapped in Spanish Cedar when they are packaged.

As you can see in this picture of my humidor, there are cigars wrapped in Spanish Cedar. You will also notice I prefer Romeo Y Julieta. Anyway, the wrapped cigars are the deluxe no. 1 by Romeo Y Julieta. Yup, I also have Punch, Onyx, Macanudo, MonteCristo, and Partagas. Great puros ALL!

The other thing which will stand out is the fact that they have all been left in the cellophane or tube. This prevents “marriaging”. Cigar marriage is the blending of flavors from different cigars. Rather than going into that now, I will save it for a future post.

Ok, If you have not yet purchased a humidor, here are a couple of inexpensive recommendations. For a starter, this holds about 50 of your finest, try this one;

Planning a larger purchase? Try this one;

Please remember to buy what you need and not too much. A half empty humidor is much harder to control the humidity than an almost full one. Keep your puros in mind when purchasing.

More on the way!
GB
Walter Gavurnik

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