Do You Cellar "Wide", "Deep" or Both?

[gervais]

Just a fun thread, and interested in all your cellaring habits. Thanks for chiming in!

 

[Casual]

I’m only one year in. I’m following Tom’s advice to smoke around, and not go too deep until my palate settles in a bit.

80 blends, most with only a single tin or 4oz bulk bag. A few, I have 3/4 or 1 pound of, like Balkan supreme, Presbyterian, and Plum Pudding SR.

 

[shanez]

Both. I'm cellared wide with 2-4 tins each of various blends but 1-2 Lbs each of the stuff I really like.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I kind of have 3 categories. The top favorites warrant 8 to 10 pounds or more. Secondary favorites 4 to 8 pounds. Regularly throw in as a change of pace 1 to 4 pounds.

 

[gervais]

I kind of have 3 categories. The top favorites warrant 8 to 10 pounds or more. Secondary favorites 4 to 8 pounds. Regularly throw in as a change of pace 1 to 4 pounds.

Like this system. Sounds like a good strategy

 

[haparnold]

Much like @shanez I have 1-3 tins of a lot of blends (about 70, if memory serves), but 1-3 lbs of my favorites.

In case you're wondering, blends I have cellared heavily (more than 1 lb) are:
Three Friars
Luxury Navy Flake
Luxury Bullseye Flake
Westminster
Old Dark Fired
HH Burley Flake

 

[kcghost]

I've kind of gotten to the age where I only cellar three blends. Before that I used to keep many blends on hand.

 

[haparnold]

I should add that what I consider cellaring heavily amounts to the dust in the bottom of mason jars for heavyweights like @hoosierpipeguy. Ha!

 

[didimauw]

Mines deep. I only like about 4 blends total. I have some oddball stuff in there, but no it's only about a few blends. But a lot of only a few blends.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Both, 5-20 pounds each blend in my cellar ranging from Virginia families, Burley families, Aromatics, and Oriental forward latakia blends.

 

[rushx9]

I'm a wide and shallow cellarman, for sure. I have a little over 100 different blends currently and no more than a half-pound/250g of any of them, mostly single tins. I get bored easily and always want to try something new so this works best for me.

 

[lukasstrifeson]

I've been smoking for a while now but until I found the wonderful world of online forums I had about a dozen blends, ones I regularly smoked and enjoyed, cellared Oz to Lbs deep each.

Now? Oof, where to begin? I'm basically building a medium-sized B&M.

Something about reading a diverse array of impressions really help you discover new blends you might like at a higher rate. It's like a dose of high-octane nourishment to my almost-under-control TAD. ?

 

[mso489]

I'm in the minority here as a "wide" cellar. I smoke moderately, and don't buy much at a time, but my stash is highly various. I lean toward non-aromatics and burley based or condimental blends, but I have a lot of different blends and single leaf, quite a bit out of those categories.

 

[alaskanpiper]

As a once a week-ish smoker, wide makes the most sense. I do have a handful of favorites that I have cellared “deep” on though (which for me means 1lb or so).

Other than those I have 2 to 6oz of hundreds of blends.

 

[gervais]

As a once a week-ish smoker, wide makes the most sense. I do have a handful of favorites that I have cellared “deep” on though (which for me means 1lb or so).

Other than those I have 2 to 6oz of hundreds of blends.

Did you run the mason jar companies out of supply yet?!

 

[ram74]

I kind of have 3 categories. The top favorites warrant 8 to 10 pounds or more. Secondary favorites 4 to 8 pounds. Regularly throw in as a change of pace 1 to 4 pounds.

I have the same system but on a smaller scale. My favorites I keep 3-5 pounds in stock. Secondary I keep 8oz to 1 pound and new blends I have not tried but may like I order 4 Oz to try. I don’t have many favorites so my cellar is far more wide than deep.

 

[olkofri]

So, I finally learn what 'wide and deep' means; I always assumed it referred only to physical space.

 

[bryguysc]

I have a lot of what I call "one-offs." 1 or two tins of something I wanted to try, but still haven't gotten around to.

I have a handful of blends of which I've cellared pounds each:
McClelland: 2035, 2010, Blackwoods, St. James
Sam Gawith: FVF, St. James, Navy, Best Brown
Peter Stokkebye: Bullseye
Sutliffe: 507C Virginia Slices
Esoterica: Dunbar
Lancer's Slices

So, wide; with a few deep(er) valleys.

 

[mordy18]

Wide but trying hard not to get wider. I have about 40 different blends. For 5 or 6 blends I have two or three tins, i have 12 oz of my favorite aro, the rest are single tins. At 4 or 5 bowls a week max that seems like a lot of tobacco to me.

 

[jzbdano]

I cellared wide the first couple years, then went deep the last couple years.