A cold day in Australia!

Hey guys/gals!

First off, an introduction!

I'm 24, I live in Australia, I enjoy software engineering, metal, craft beer and the outdoors :P

My first "real" cigar was a Montecristo #4, which was probably more than a year ago now. Before that it was cheap cigarillos (well, not cheap) and other machine made cigars. Unfortunately that's one of the down falls of having limited availability where I live.

Just recently my interest in cigars has piqued again, and I started to read. And read. And read. It got to the point where I was trying to find one site that would have all the recommended cigars so I could then make my pick, but soon decided that I would just go and have a bit of fun.

Eventually I decided on the following cigars:

• Liga Undercrown Corona Viva
• Oliva Serie V Melanio Robusto (had my eye on this for a while now)
• Arturo Fuente Short Story
• H Upmann Half Corona

http://imgur.com/BkeZasr

Now, some of you may be thinking, why those cigars in particular?

Well, quite honestly, it was a bit of a mixture of reasons. (in no particular order)

1. Price
2. Time (my free time lately seems to be getting smaller and smaller)
3. Availability
4. Interest

The biggest factor is price (the above cigars costing me a total of $84 as it is). I didn't want to go spending a huge amount right at the beginning while I'm learning what I do and don't like, so I thought I would grab a few I thought seemed interesting (based on reviews, etc) and go from there. The ones that I enjoy I can look into importing from O/S so that it works out cheaper.

Right now, I've got them in a tupperware container with a Boveda pack, in a cool, dark cupboard.

(1) My biggest question at this point would be how long do I wait. As you could probably imagine, I'm itching to take one out right now. I have read that some people like to wait a week or two, and some people that like to wait longer. There is also those that will have one ROTT (generally if they are buying a box at a time).

(2) The next question is, what would be your recommended order for enjoying them (if disregarding wait time)?

Hopefully that wasn't too long winded, but I wanted to be as thorough as I could so that you don't have me coming back every 10 minutes with another question :D

Cheers, Nathan