Quote Originally Posted by Devil Doc View Post
Of course they all don't taste the same. If they did I wouldn't need so much damn humidor space.
I grew up in my grandmothers variety store. Mini-Mart to you young fellas. Back in those days we sold over 100 brands of cigarettes. Blind, I could identify many of them. Hey, I couldn't smoke them all. With cigars, if you were to give me a Dominican puro, Nic Puro, Honduran Puro (this one might be a problem) and a Cuban, I am reasonably certain I could identify which was which. But none of them would taste like essence of chocolate or sweet cocoa. They would taste like what they were, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Honduran, and Cuban tobacco. They are all quite distinctive to me. People should concentrate their efforts on being able to distinguish those attributes, the flavors that come from the soil, not getting frustrated by not being able to taste what those hacks at CA tell us we should taste.

Doc.
No disagreement here. I do, however, think there are valid comparisons between the flavors tasted in tobacco and other familiar tastes/aromas.

For an example, sweetness or sugar, or particularly burnt sugar. I can see where a tobacco strain with a high sugar content, if processed in a manner to preserve the sugar content during fermentation, might remind one of a burnt sugar taste.