Agreed on the Opus, they age great. Have some going back to 2005. I can't smoke them fresh though, way too powerful and harsh.
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Exactly, good example. The Opus is such a strong cigar that when it starts out you are tasting the potential alongside a lot of harshness in the form of ammonia and esters which will dissipate with time, leaving the blend to marry in a way that it never will if smoked young.

Take a box of those and age most of them 10 years, and you have magic.
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I'd venture that of all the NCs that I've aged, the short story was by far the best. After about 3 years, they get amazing.
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Opus tend to be very oily and that takes some time to settle in or they smoke at a snail's pace.
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Everybody gets older...fact of life.

Live with it.
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whoops just realized you were talking about cigars...darn pain meds.:-)
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