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Cigar unraveling theory.

Humidor Minister

Humidor Minister

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I take extemely good care of my cigars and yet once in a while I'll have one unravel as I smoke it. I have a theory on this phenomena. I'm hoping you guys may help me determine if I'm right. Is it possible that if a cigar dries out durring its lifetime that it shrinks slightly. Then when it is brought back to proper RH it expands again. This could loosen the wraper and cause unraveling. Has anyone ever rembered a cigar that had dried out and was then brought back to proper RH and then unraveled when you smoked it? I had a RP Edge Maddy aged 5 years tonight. It was fantastic other than that flag hanging off the side. :whistling:Forgot to mention I'm talking about the foot end.
 
I've read a few times of this happening when the cigars would fly. From what I've read, the temperature in the cargo part is what caused it to unravel. It could be from shrinking and expanding with the temperature, like you said. I don't know man. I do hate it when that happens though.
 
I had some given to me that was on the dry side and I got them back up to the proper RH. The wrapper never came undone. I've had many high end unravel right out of the humidor from the B&M shops. I've had them unravel at 60% and all the way up to 70% RH.

And I usually smoke the higher end cigars and so this is an issue I've seen on Opus all the way down to a $2.00 cigar. Why it does it? It could be there wasn't enough pectin or whatever they use to keep the wrapper on. I've had some unravel while smoking them as well. :laugh:
 
JHolmes763 said:
Or you're smoking it backwards... :whistling: :p
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Kind of hard to do with a torp though. :whistling: :laugh: The RP Edge I smoked has the band right at the foot. I realized that it came apart at the point where the band had ended. I don't know if it was coincidence or not but it may have something to do with it.
 
Could be that its a RP. I've always thought that they have had construction issues. They offer a lot of different cigars. I think they care more about quantity then quality.


-Gianni-
 
The last time I had this happen was with a fresh Monti #2 .... it spent very minimal time in the the humidor and was quite wet still. Since then, I always allow time in the humidor before smoking.


:cool:
 
It's funny that this thread is here... I'm a newbie and I am just experiencing this for the first time with a Romeo Y Julieta Clememceaus. I'll keep puffing and see what happens.
 
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