buck
Well-Known Member
I keep hearing people on cigar forums saying that once your cigar is fully dried out it will no longer smoke the same or have the same flavor as before. They say this is due to the loss of natural oils from the leaf and no good even if slowly brought back to case. I'm sure most of these people would throw out their cigars if they accidentally left one in a drawer for a few months.
Before I started growing and reading up on processing tobacco leaves I believed that but now that I see how dry the leaves get and how dry they are stored I'm doubting this is true. If the leaves are very dry then brought to case, cigar rolled .. does it really make them less enjoyable to smoke if they dry out after they are rolled ?? If you rehydrate them slowly without splitting the wrapper/binder then they should smoke and taste very similar to one that never dried out.
I'm I missing something ?
Before I started growing and reading up on processing tobacco leaves I believed that but now that I see how dry the leaves get and how dry they are stored I'm doubting this is true. If the leaves are very dry then brought to case, cigar rolled .. does it really make them less enjoyable to smoke if they dry out after they are rolled ?? If you rehydrate them slowly without splitting the wrapper/binder then they should smoke and taste very similar to one that never dried out.
I'm I missing something ?