Plume is pretty rare, they'd have to have been aged very well. I'd go back and have another look and talk with the owner if it is plume you should grab a handful.

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Rhamlin:

Plume is pretty rare

Can't stress this enough. The appearance of actual, honest to goodness plume is VERY rare. Like, pretty likely to never happen, most of the time. It is not, however, as uncommon, sadly, to have moldy, or downright dusty cigars, that are mistaken for plumed. But yeah, if you actually, truly do have plume in your lifetime, congratulations. It took some miraculous, planetary alignment level ish for that to happen. If you think you have plume, and aren't 100%, it's 99% likely that you have mold, and or dust.

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I stopped by a local lounge tonight to try and find a nice cigar for my wife to buy me for my bday. Its easier if I pick it out and she pick it up. It a common ground thing...I don't pick out her shoes, she doesn't pick out my cigars! Any way, there had to be 15 boxes with mold in them! I brougt it to the cashiers attention and she said its normal. As long as its not in the foot, they are ok. WTF!! Thats not the point here woman! Your cigars have mold on them!!! There was even a box that had the mold in the grain of the wood! The *** was light green and I swear it could have cured AIDS! My wife, who doesn't smoke cigars, took one look and agreed that its mold. She even said that it looks like the stuff that grows on old bread! I couldn't believe it. I guess she thought I was some chump who doesn't know the difference. However...I did buy a T52. I inspected it thoroughly and ensured no other boxes around it had the plague. It is in a seaedl ziplock bag and I will smoke it tomorrow. That bag isn't even going near the winedor!

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Holy crap dude, I hope that's not the only B&M in your area. I don't think I would trust anything bought there. The owner better get his head on straight before he starts losing his customers.

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My wife has been with me almost every time I've went. She made a comment last night that we are always in the place by ourself. No one is ever there. Hopefully they tighten up their program and lower their monthly membership fee.

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I bought some two weeks ago that were moldy...and got an exchange, a coupel guys helped me in the what you got today forum. That being said, went back today....guess what was wiped off tha box of cigars and they haven't sold?? I also found this on CA's website whihc in my opinion is BS. I have two cigars with plume...and they are obviously plume, sparkle, does not wipe off, old cigars I found stashed in a humi at a crappy B&M closeout bin. The ones I got that were moldy...were obvious once it was pointed out by the BOTL's here and i did a little searching online. The more i have looked into this, the more I see people thinking mold is plume...and it is no where near what it should be since I've compared the two. Here is the CA article...it says you can wipe off plume and that mold is blue and won't be wiped off...i found my experience to be quite the opposite. http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/Is-it-the-Plume_5492

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Yeah sounds like a typo, been lucky enough never to have mold except on the foam pucks. All mold Ive seen pictures of has been whiteish, I did have some black mold on my first humidifier that put a scare in me but luckily it didn't spread any further.

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