Aging certainly helps. It both mellows the flavors and improves the taste. Also, air cured tobaccos need to go through 'seasons'. The hanging leaves take up air moisture from rain and fog, then dry back out to the crisp dry that yours is. The seasoning adds to the mellow and complexity of flavor.
Correct air curing has two distinct phases. Keeping the tobacco too moist or too dry will interfere with this. First is yellowing where the leaves turn from green to pale yellow. Then browning. Both of these are influences by the above mentioned 'seasons'. Too dry a cure results in going from green to brown. When it cures fast it cures bitter.
As to burning, the most common problem is chlorine from potash fertilizer. Thats why in Kentucky, and most tobacco producing states it is illegal to apply any potash fertilizers containing chlorine after December 1 to tobacco fields. Sulfate of potash or potassioum nitrate being the most readily available sources of chlorine and chloride free potassium. The second considerating in burning is the blend. If I read your post correctly you are using a wrapper variety. Wrapper is just that. For filler a lighter milder tobacco is called for, with better buring characteristics. Thats where flue cured and burley tobaccos come in. In a typical blend you will find half or more flue cured and a forth to a third burley as the fill with small amounts of other tobaccos added to balalnce the flavor and burn rate. In cigars the wrapper slows the burn, the filler speeds it. The blend half and half is a mix of half flue cured and half burley for example.
A good tobacco or tobacco blend is like a fine wine. It is unique to the plant and the curing process and season. Its aging caries and preserves its story. We then share the story of the plant when we smoke or chew it. To me, flavorings just detract from the experience. Kind of like ruining good coffee with cream and sugar or good bourbon with a mixer.
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