You can buy ancient cigars, if you have enough money. Pre-embargo cigars are still available. That is Cameroon cigars available with wrappers that are from the 90s. Ccom has cigars from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Probably the best answer I can give you is, the oldest you can buy, is the oldest you can afford.
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I smoked a partagas 1845, which general grant was smoking during the Mexican American war. Still trying to acquire the 160, which is almost 1700 years older than that.
Here's part of the description from both Ccom and CI,...
Featuring a genuine African Cameroon wrapper first cultivated 40 years ago, Rocky Patel Vintage 1979 delivers a truly unforgettable blah blah, etc, etc........
I suppose if it was really a forty year old wrapper leaf, they would leave out the word first in that description. Right? Because with the word first used in that way, means that they began cultivating this particular strain of tobacco forty years ago but have probably been cultivating the same strain ever since. Therefore the wrapper leaf is NOT forty years old. Right?
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Ccom has cigars from the 30s, 40s and 50s.
Probably the best answer I can give you is, the oldest you can buy, is the oldest you can afford.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
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Featuring a genuine African Cameroon wrapper first cultivated 40 years ago, Rocky Patel Vintage 1979 delivers a truly unforgettable blah blah, etc, etc........
I suppose if it was really a forty year old wrapper leaf, they would leave out the word first in that description. Right? Because with the word first used in that way, means that they began cultivating this particular strain of tobacco forty years ago but have probably been cultivating the same strain ever since. Therefore the wrapper leaf is NOT forty years old. Right?
But, the guy from CI is telling me that it's a forty year old leaf,...
https://vimeo.com/335136192
I don't believe he knows a damn thing about it.
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