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I am looking for verification of a story I keep hearing, but cannot seem to find much information or details about it.
Every time I talk about cigars, a guy at work tells me the following story over and over:
The world’s oldest smokable cigars were recently discovered in the basement of a castle in Ireland. Supposedly from the 1800’s, they had been stored in the basement which averaged 70 degrees and 70% humidity. Apparently, a whole room full of boxes of cigars which had been acquired by the castle owner several generations back, were being used as firewood by the last couple of owners, as they were not cigar smokers. The current owner had gone down to the basement with a friend of his (who happened to be a cigar aficionado) to throw some more boxes onto the fire (as he’d seen his father doing). Being down to only 10 boxes, his friend stopped him and said that he may just have the oldest smokable cigars there, and asked if he could try one. Telling his friend it was the best cigar he’d ever had, the remaining 10 boxes were auctioned off at Sotheby’s for something like $10,000 a box. At least 1 cigar is rumored to have been purchased by Joe Pantoliano (well known actor and aficionado).
Can anyone verify this or clarify any incorrect or missing details? This is more to satisfy my curiosity than anything else…and possibly to silence the storyteller at work.
If this is true, can you imagine how the guy must have felt when he learned he was burning $10,000 boxes of cigars?
Every time I talk about cigars, a guy at work tells me the following story over and over:
The world’s oldest smokable cigars were recently discovered in the basement of a castle in Ireland. Supposedly from the 1800’s, they had been stored in the basement which averaged 70 degrees and 70% humidity. Apparently, a whole room full of boxes of cigars which had been acquired by the castle owner several generations back, were being used as firewood by the last couple of owners, as they were not cigar smokers. The current owner had gone down to the basement with a friend of his (who happened to be a cigar aficionado) to throw some more boxes onto the fire (as he’d seen his father doing). Being down to only 10 boxes, his friend stopped him and said that he may just have the oldest smokable cigars there, and asked if he could try one. Telling his friend it was the best cigar he’d ever had, the remaining 10 boxes were auctioned off at Sotheby’s for something like $10,000 a box. At least 1 cigar is rumored to have been purchased by Joe Pantoliano (well known actor and aficionado).
Can anyone verify this or clarify any incorrect or missing details? This is more to satisfy my curiosity than anything else…and possibly to silence the storyteller at work.
If this is true, can you imagine how the guy must have felt when he learned he was burning $10,000 boxes of cigars?
