Humidor

Have you ever bought a really expensive cigar and it was dry or just not as good as other times you have had it?

Yeah it happens to the best of us...If I owned a cigar brand, I would make sure that all the shops that sold my sticks maintained the perfect conditions of my cigars.

When I go to a cigar shop anywhere in the world, I like to ask the vendor how they buy their cigars and how many middle men are between the rollers and the shop. The shops I frequent here in Seattle, have direct relationships with the growers and rollers and use their direct reps to bring the cigars into the USA.

Also, look at the walls of your cigar shop's humidor...is it 100% Spanish cedar? They should be. Here's a picture of my fav. humidor in Seattle at FK Kirsten's in Ballard.