How long did it take for you to develop your "nose"?

[Devil Doc]

I would point out two things to you gentlemen. If you weren't a cigar smoker prior to CA's inception, you've been influenced whether you read the rag or not. And two, from what I've read and personally experienced, Cuban and Cuban Americans think we're nuts for tasting the things we think we taste in cigars.

Doc.

[Paddy]

I smoked a cigar last week that tasted like a Big Mac & French Fries

[nhcigarfan]

I smoked a java once. I tasted coffee.

[WinstonSpencer]

I believe it is 90% marketing and 10% people sucking at talking. But scientifically it is possible for the same molecule that is responsble for say, the taste of citrus, to be found in a cigar. Whether this happens at a discernable level is a matter of debate (obviously). Again, marketing and people talking out their ass. Also, complex flavors like leather and oil are more difficult to describe than one dimensional flavors. I love the art/science barrier. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[badwhale]

Dammit, if you're not tasting freshly mown hay with an aftertaste of mint-cherry frappachino cheesecake, you're not living.

Cubans....pffftt what do they know about tobacco?

[Devil Doc]

Dammit, if you're not tasting freshly mown hay with an aftertaste of mint-cherry frappachino cheesecake, you're not living.

Cubans....pffftt what do they know about tobacco?

I don't know what kind of engineer you are but you might be interested to know that I'm having a similar argument on a audiophile board about folks who think they can hear wire.

Doc.

[ashauler]

I don't know what kind of engineer you are but you might be interested to know that I'm having a similar argument on a audiophile board about folks who think they can hear wire.

Doc.

He's really a frustrated Architect.

[b.read]

With my miniscule experience with cigars, I am definitely not picking up anywhere near the amount of flavors that more experienced smokers are... hopefully my palate will wake up the same way it did with beer some years back.

I'm having a similar argument on a audiophile board about folks who think they can hear wire.

Doc.

I gotta ask...gearslutz?

[denver24]

Dammit, if you're not tasting freshly mown hay with an aftertaste of mint-cherry frappachino cheesecake, you're not living.

Will, shoot me a PM with the link to those cigars. I love mint-cherry frappachino cheesecake and have been waiting for a long time to find a cigar that tasted like it.

[prophetic_joe]

I believe it is 90% marketing and 10% people sucking at talking. But scientifically it is possible for the same molecule that is responsble for say, the taste of citrus, to be found in a cigar. Whether this happens at a discernable level is a matter of debate (obviously). Again, marketing and people talking out their ass. Also, complex flavors like leather and oil are more difficult to describe than one dimensional flavors. I love the art/science barrier. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

See this is basically what I was meaning. There are things we taste in a cigar but you just can't put into words what it is so you grasp at something to describe it. It would really make it difficult to describe the experience to a non-cigar person by saying "Well a cigar taste like a cigar" it's like when you say a certain meat tastes like chicken, it really doesn't taste like chicken you can just pick up similarities and so because your brain can't come up with a better way to describe the experience you say "it tastes like chicken".

As far as Cubans and Cuban Americans thinking we're crazy for tasting what we taste, I have personally spoken to some of the cigar makers that were formerly from Cuba and they describe their cigars in similar ways. Now while I know this is marketing a bit but if the guys who make the cigars can't come up with a better way to describe the smoking experience to other guys that have actually smoked their products there probably is something to it.

Like I said it's like tastes like chicken, it's not exactly the same but there is something in the flavor that gives your brain a similar reaction. And every cigar does taste different.

[buzz]

I can't stand it when someone says they taste cocoa in their cigar... oh man that makes me so mad!

[Mizicke5273]

I can't stand it when someone says they taste cocoa in their cigar... oh man that makes me so mad!

I take offense to that. I've tasted coco in a few cigars. Now it might not be choco chocolatey chocolate truffles, but some hints of coco none the less.

Now I'm beginning to think you don't like my reviews. Guess I'll be sitting the next MEGA Review out.


Btw ->


There have been times where I'll pick up a flavor I can't describe too well, so I do my best. And I may come up with an obscure description like coco or citrus, but normally those are only "hints of" that particular flavor or are reminiscent of it.

[mrtr33]

....and what if we've never read Cigar Aficionado?

All cigars only ever taste like tobacco to me. That's why I smoke cigars, and not Mars bars.

I'll admit I don't have as sophisticated of a palate as many do here. But there is no other way for me to plainly describe the taste I detect. Is it chocolate I taste? No, of course not. Is it a flavor I closely associate with chocolate? some kind of spiciness? leather? It's a flavor I can associate to what I'm experiencing - not so much that exact flavor. That's left up to my white owl smoking experiences. It's what I experience. Maybe one day, I'll be able to characterize my cigars by the soil they come from. Today, I associate with flavors I'm more familiar with. It's also important to note that it's only what things taste like to me - not necessarily to you.

Wine is the same way - I might pick up the following scents in both smell and taste: floral, berry (other than grape - strawberry, currant, blackberry), spice, etc. Did they infuse my wine with flowers? Slip a bottle of Boone's Farm in my stash? No. It's how I can describe what I'm tasting.

I mean, there's no other way I know to put it.

[prophetic_joe]

....and what if we've never read Cigar Aficionado?

All cigars only ever taste like tobacco to me. That's why I smoke cigars, and not Mars bars.

I'll admit I don't have as sophisticated of a palate as many do here. But there is no other way for me to plainly describe the taste I detect. Is it chocolate I taste? No, of course not. Is it a flavor I closely associate with chocolate? some kind of spiciness? leather? It's a flavor I can associate to what I'm experiencing - not so much that exact flavor. That's left up to my white owl smoking experiences. It's what I experience. Maybe one day, I'll be able to characterize my cigars by the soil they come from. Today, I associate with flavors I'm more familiar with. It's also important to note that it's only what things taste like to me - not necessarily to you.

Wine is the same way - I might pick up the following scents in both smell and taste: floral, berry (other than grape - strawberry, currant, blackberry), spice, etc. Did they infuse my wine with flowers? Slip a bottle of Boone's Farm in my stash? No. It's how I can describe what I'm tasting.

I mean, there's no other way I know to put it.

I think he put his idea out there better than me but this is exactly, 100% what I mean.