Cigars are currently the only luxury goods in the world that are determined by a seller's market.
For experienced cigar enthusiasts, tasting cigars is not only a way of enjoying the richness of the cigar itself, but also a way of life - letting go of stress, shedding restlessness, and even reaching a state of forgetting both myself and myself in an almost devout focus.
Purification is the mysterious and beautiful side of cigars, and the flavor of cigars will change over time. During the aging process, remove the irritating odor, tar, nicotine, roughness, spiciness, bitterness, and other unpleasant sensations of cigar smoke, and subject the tobacco leaves to microbial action, enzymatic catalysis, etc. The quality of cigar aging will ultimately be reflected in the cigar flavor.
Compared to professional constant temperature and humidity cigar cabinets, cigar rooms not only have the same temperature and humidity stability, but also have an irreplaceable advantage: huge storage space! Due to the huge difference in volume, cigar rooms can store a "massive" amount of mellow cigars. At the moment of entering the cigar room, there is a strong visual and gustatory impact of being immersed in a sea of cigars, followed by a sense of pleasure. Therefore, the ultimate dream of the vast majority of cigar enthusiasts is to customize a cigar room of their own.
The development history of cigar houses
The emergence of specialized cigar boxes has only a history of over 100 years, and people used to store cigars relatively casually. Around 1930, the British fashion brand DUNHILL began producing cigar boxes with hygrometers, which marked the birth of modern cigar boxes. Professional constant temperature cigar cellars/cigar rooms first appeared in the United States in the 1950s, and it was only after the invention and application of household air conditioning that true constant temperature and humidity cigar rooms became possible
"If you encounter a friend holding a box of cigars produced in the 1930s or 1940s, you can basically conclude that the cigar is not genuine, because cigar rooms with constant temperature and humidity only appeared in the 1950s, and cigars produced before that are difficult to preserve until now."
The oldest fully preserved Cuban cigar today (1851)
Management of Cigar Room
Cigar rooms are different from wine cellars as they require specialized personnel to maintain No matter how stable the indicators of the cigar room are, it is necessary to regularly check the cigars in the room. Even in a stable environment, over time, the cigar's condition is prone to some minor issues. Therefore, it is required that cigar room managers must master basic cigar knowledge as well as some professional maintenance knowledge. If the cigar is in good condition, gently pressing it with three fingers should make it feel firm and elastic, similar to healthy and energetic muscles, with texture and full elasticity.
If you feel that cigars are dry, hard, and fragile, it may be due to insufficient humidity; If you feel that the soft sponge feels too strong, it may be due to excessive humidification. This requires the cigar room manager to make adjustments based on the different states of the cigars, so that they can be kept in a better state and aged. For seasoned cigar enthusiasts, it's not about holding a top-notch Cuban cigar, but about unleashing the potential of an ordinary cigar to the fullest. This is the true seasoned cigar enthusiast who understands cigars.
