A good friend of mine gave a Gurkha Grand Reserve today. It comes in a plastic (maybe glass?) tube and is sealed with wax. Should I leave it in the tube sealed (in the humidor though) or should I take it out of the tube and put it in my humi near my other cigars?

I have read that the Louis XIII-soaked cigar is very strong and will make other cigars taste like Louis XIII.

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I would leave it in the tube...I don't think this is the Louis XIII-soaked cigar though as those had green wax seal (could be wrong). Brooks did a review on it.
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Open it and smoke it. Problem solved..:-)




Should be fine left in the tube..:-)
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The tube is glass.

You should leave the tube sealed and not disturb/pick/twist/fiddle with the wax (as not to create any leaks) until you plan on smoking it.

IIRC, there are three tiers of cigars in that cognac line, all of which use the same cognac with the primary differences being the tobacco used and that supposedly a greater quantity of cognac is used as you go up the line from bronze to silver to green. The green being the $750 HMR (Hanistota's Major Ripoff) cigar.
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I can always count on you guys! Thanks
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Do NOT open it and put it with the rest of your cigars, the smell is pretty strong on the ones I have opened...

The one I reviewed was the HMR, but the idea is the same (both are infused)...

(Review is here, if you care: http://tinyurl.com/ykhd8wh)

~brooks
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I believe these have a psuedo wax top. It actually is molded plastic. As the others have said, either leave it in the tube or smoke it. :-)
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Wow. So Kazad Havascama misrepresented his product? Shocking, just shocking I tell you.
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Send it to bobby... and use that spot in your humidor to put something else :-)
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I had one of these a year or so ago. The cognac smell definitely gets out of the tube even if you don't break the seal. I would smoke it ASAP.

Here is a review I did on it: http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=11653
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This cigar has Louis XIII in it.
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So you are saying it tastes like motor oil smells? :-) Atleast thats what Louis XIII tastes like. Worst waste of money on a drink ever, except for maybe Molson XXX:-)
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Three or four years ago, someone bombed me with one of these very cigars. Since I sure as hell wasn't going to smoke it, it sat in my humidor for seven or eight months, never leaked cognac odor/aroma at all. Well, that was until the day I went to pack it up to send off to someone else - I must have twisted the faux-wax seal a bit and OMG, el stinko...

I'd throw it in the garbage. Can't give it to our troops, since they deserve better and the Geneva convention specifically outlaws chemical weapons like this. Not much else you could do with it; maybe pull it out of the tube and chuck it down a gopher hole, then pack dirt in behind it and poison the little bastards with the stench. You could also save it until someone breaks into your house and after you pump a few rounds into them and they are laying there bleeding and dying, you can bust this thing out and stuff it in their mouth so that they really understand just how wrong what they did was.
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