How To Choose a Cigar

Posted on June 10, 2008 
Filed Under Cigars, Video

Probably the most important aspect to know when looking to choose a cigar from your humidor is the time you have available in which to smoke it. There’s no point wasting a double corona ( a good two hour smoke) when you you have less than an hour to enjoy your cigar. Perhaps a petit corona would be a better bet….

Naturally, if the cigar is being selected from your own humidor, I’m sure that you or your butler always ensure that the humidity within the humidor is correct and that the water in the humidor’s humidifier is checked regularly.

If however you are choosing a cigar from a store, club or restaurant’s humidor simply give the cigar a gentle squeeze. You should feel a slight ‘give’ and it will spring back, a stale dried out cigar will not. The fresher a cigar the greater the ‘give’. The best cigars are manufactured in humid countries - Cuba, The Dominican Republic and so on hence the need to replicate that ‘climate’ in the humidor and keep those cigars moist.

Cigar Humidor Tip: When you’ve purchased a new humidor be sure not to add your cigars to it straight away! The humidor will simply suck the moisture out of your cigars - bad news!

First add the distilled water to the humidor’s humidifier and leave, securely closed, for a few days to impregnate that lovely cedar wood with moisture. Keep the humidor out of direct sunlight, draughts and at a room temperature of around 70F.

The humidity should read between 68-72, but anywhere within 66-79 is fine, within the humidor measured via a hygrometer which comes fitted in all good humidors.

More cigar posts:

Cutting a cigar | Lighting a cigar | Smoking a cigar






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