I think this is good advice for starting a cellar. Although many great Virginia blends are available in bulk, I might focus on the tins. This way, if something changes, you'll have no problem selling or trading away aged Virginias in a tin.
Basic Blends for a Good Cellar.
- Thread starter HadenB
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As long as you didn't buy what you already have based on others opinions, run with what you like and try similar blends.
Keep you attention toward making friends with B&Ms. Offline the contents of that top photo can be grabbed for around $180.
I’d like to do that, but I’ve got one cigar store within 40 miles of home with one shelf of pipe tobacco that they don’t seem too interested in replenishing…
Damn it. That cellar smells like glory. If I were single, I would have turned my home into a whiskey and tobacco museum by now. 
You can do what you want, it's your cellar after all, but I only buy tobaccos I like or that there is a very high probability it will like. For me there is no point to buying tobacco just for the sake of buying it. I buy a few tins or ounces of something I haven't had before or a limited blend that interests me and I buy the stuff I know I like in bulk so when the day comes that it disappears I have it to enjoy.
Years back a lot of us old timers had ONE big tub on the end table. That was just fine.
Carter Hall, Edgeworth and H&H did me just fine. And look where we are now.
Carter Hall, Edgeworth and H&H did me just fine. And look where we are now.
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My definition of a good cellar is a collection of blends I enjoy smoking.