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Jrfoxx said:
Of the roughly 50 aged and Vintage Cigars I have had, about half had become bland and flavorless, so I'm hoping 5 years hasn't done this to the lusitania

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That is strange, out of the 1000s of Vintage Cigars I have smoked I have only had maybe 2% that were flavorless! Now I have had a larger % number that were tight. Maybe your looking for a different flavor profile more along what you get from a fresh cigar. I used to work at a cigar lounge as the "Cigar Sommelier" and what I found funny was that some of the locals that bought the cubans on the low. They maybe smoked a few a month,( I smoked 4 cubans a night 7 days a week) when I would give them an aged cigar they thought it was fake. lol They expected in your face strong flavor not refined and smooth! When I started smoking Cubans I smoked mostly stuff with only a few years age and stayed that way for a few years. I then got into vintage stuff 10 + years and very quickly fell in love and started smoking it exclusively. I can tell you that it is a different type of flavor profile but not everyone likes it.
 
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Havanaaddict said:
That is strange, out of the 1000s of Vintage Cigars I have smoked I have only had maybe 2% that were flavorless! Now I have had a larger % number that were tight. Maybe your looking for a different flavor profile more along what you get from a fresh cigar. I used to work at a cigar lounge as the "Cigar Sommelier" and what I found funny was that some of the locals that bought the cubans on the low. They maybe smoked a few a month,( I smoked 4 cubans a night 7 days a week) when I would give them an aged cigar they thought it was fake. lol They expected in your face strong flavor not refined and smooth! When I started smoking Cubans I smoked mostly stuff with only a few years age and stayed that way for a few years. I then got into vintage stuff 10 + years and very quickly fell in love and started smoking it exclusively. I can tell you that it is a different type of flavor profile but not everyone likes it.
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Yeah, over 5 years or so were the ones that had little or no flavor.

You could be right that aged Cigars just aren't for me, which is fine, the recent production of 2019 and 2020 I have been smoking have been just fine for me for the most part

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Jrfoxx said:
All the ones that were under about 6 years were still plenty flavorful and most I did think were better than recent production, but most of the ones older than that were flavorless.

No idea if it was a storage issue or not, dont know the provenance of any of them, other than they were all generously gifted by different members of the forums I belong to.

With the Vintage ones, I was told that most of the ones I was given weren't high end Cigars to begin with, so 50 to 60 years of age certainly didn't do them any favors.

Was still neat to smoke ones from the 1940's and 1950's even if they were flavorless other than having a sort of musty flavor.
The ones from the 60's were much better though and were still very good and very flavorful

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Understood on the vintage clear Havanas and other 50-60 year old cigars. But there is no reason for cigars that have been adequately stored for 6-20 or more years to be bland or flavorless, aside from that they were improperly stored. I realize with your lack of provenance, you have no way of knowing, but it seems pretty obvious.
 
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Jrfoxx said:
I also have a 2016 Lusitanias i was generously gifted. Never had a Lusitanias before.

What did you think of yours?

Of the roughly 50 aged and Vintage Cigars I have had, about half had become bland and flavorless, so I'm hoping 5 years hasn't done this to the lusitania

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This Lusitania was a pretty good cigar. It was a little on the light side but still good. Think it still has plenty of life


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