This place makes me angry just thinking about what I've seen.
First off, it's big humidor in the back of a giant truck stop gas station, with a large stock of larger brand-name General cigars (Rocky, Montecristo, etc.) Each vitola has an open box, and a stack of full boxes of the same vitola under them, with really reasonable prices.
Unfortunately, every cigar that isn't still sealed in a box has been RUINED by the humidifier. We're talking hundreds of cigars. The particulates coming from the humidifier in the humidor are falling on EVERYTHING in that room and coating everything with looks like sticky dry dust,, a coating like something you found in the corner of a dusty attic that no-one has touched for 20 years. Every damn cigar is sitting in cello that is so fouled and tainted by the humidifier that, with about half of the cigars you can't even see the band under the discoloration. The discoloration is so significant that it permanently stains the cellophane covering the cigar, now, try to tell me that has no effect on cigars that are set out in the open without cello? I can't imagine that it doesn't effect even the cigars in cello. I also can't imagine paying what a cigar costs and ingesting anything that looks like it's been stored in a barn for 20 years. I've heard some tobacconists try to claim that this dusty-hazing of the wrapper is normal, but I've never seen it anywhere this bad, so bad that it makes the final product look damaged and ruined.
Thousands and thousands of dollars of cigars RUINED by not caring for them properly.. If I were the owner of this humidor, I would take the guy who sold me that humidifier out in the back parking lot with an aluminum bat. Or make him buy back the thousands (or maybe tens of thousands) of dollars of ruined cigars. Or make him install ventilated glass cabinets that prevents the particulates from falling on the cigars.
I really hope they do something, because this place has all the bones of being a really great source of reasonably priced, great cigars, if they could just figure out how NOT to ruin them while they store them. read more