I base my advice on personal experience, but also from the Encyclopedia of Post Revolutionary Habanos, as well as a personal conversation with Ajay Patel, the head of Aged Habanos for the London Casa del Habanos: Get the cab. Cigars aged long term in cardboard dress boxes lose their flavor much faster than those in cedar cabinets. This has been tested in experiments conducted over the course of many years by Min Ron Nee. Are you listening, AZCigarNut? I'm a member of La Casa now, and would like to be invited to join
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