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Tabacalera 1881 Alhambra Don Juan Urquijo Humidors
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Keeping cigars at correct 70-72 percent humidity brings out the best in them. Most aficionados keep theirs in a humidor to bring out the oils and smoothness. A good humidor is a wooden or cigar box with a cashier's sponge bowl (from a school supplies store) moistened with water. Some use a little brandy with the water but if the cigars are of good quality, there is no reason this should be done. Cigars, when kept well, last a long time. Some high-end British tobacco shops sell vintage cigars dating back to the sixties that are delightfully mellow. (Beware of cheap cigars that have simulated tobacco-colored paper as wrappers, they tend to create imbecile-looking smokers.) Wrappers such as the silky Cuban leaves provide a different burn and flavor from, let us say, the bumpy or toothy Sumatran or dark, oily maduro which is darkened and ripened on the plant. A cigar that has been over-humidified or dried-out creates an uneven burn. When one sees "long filler" as description, the cigar uses whole, long leaves rolled by hand into a unit as against the inferior "short filler" that could be machine-rolled and are small shreds packed into a wrapper. (Probably even the sweepings from the floor after a long filler production.)
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