Aged Cigars

What if we told you that our customers regularly smoke 5 year old Punch Double Maduros? Or how about some original blend La Aroma De Cuba that haven't been on the market in years? Maybe some 4 year old Fuente Don Carlos? Think this is only a dream? Wake up my friend and peer into the aging cabinet at Tobacco Junction.

Until now, the pleasure of smoking such a cigar was only available to those people with the funds and discipline to put away their treasured stogies and let them age for years. Not many tobacconists have the resources and patience to perform this exercise for you. But Tobacco Junction does.

This concept we speak of, pulling cigars away from retail and setting them back to age, is so unique in cigar retailing that you will be hard pressed to find another store in hundreds of miles of Tobacco Junction that could pull this feat off.

• Active Inventory Management: TJ actively pulls cigars from retail inventory to age them in a dedicated climate-controlled vault
• Rare Service: Most tobacconists don't have the resources and patience for this undertaking
• Customer Convenience: Customers can buy pre-aged premium cigars without waiting years themselves
• Expert Selection: Only cigars vetted through extensive testing make it into our aging program

There are several steps to the aging process for our cigars. To the uninitiated the concept might appear simple, but don't fall for that trap friend—to do the job right it takes a trained palate and a keen eye for what it requires to elevate a cigar from good to great.

The cigars selected for down time in our aging vault have been thoroughly vetted in a painstaking process to ensure only the best results. Not every cigar has what it takes to make it through this journey to arrive at the end of its path ready to be quickly snipped or punched and devoured in a blaze of greedy flames.

What we look for:

• Medium to full-bodied cigars
• Blends with "legs"—ability to maintain strength while flavors marry and mellow
• Cigars that benefit from long-term aging
• Proper taste and attributes for the aging journey

Examples of cigars we age:

• Punch Double Maduro
• La Aroma De Cuba (original blend)
• Fuente Don Carlos

Many hours of tasting and testing of cigars go into the process of selection for the aged cigar vault. Only those blends with the right taste and attributes that benefit from long term aging will be laid to slumber peacefully in the climate controlled confines of our aged cigar repository.

These cigars we deem worthy are usually those cigars closer to medium bodied or fuller who we feel have the legs to come out of the aging process full of well married flavors and still have an ample amount of strength to satisfy the most discerning cigar enthusiast.

• Minimum effective aging: 2 years
• Optimal aging: 4+ years for many premium cigars
• Goal: Well-married flavors with ample remaining strength
• Cigars are aged until they reach the pinnacle of perfection

• Climate-controlled aging vault/cabinet
• Proper humidity and temperature maintenance
• Protected environment for long-term storage

• Access to discontinued or rare blends no longer in production
• Peak flavor development—cigars at their optimal smoking point
• Convenience—no need to wait years or maintain personal aging humidors
• Expert curation—only the best candidates selected for aging
• Well-married flavors with maintained strength