Did anyone ever read a lousy review?

[CgarDan]

not general.....altadis.....but explain the scoring...please

I for some reason thought that CM is part of Lew Rothman's JR empire. The mag always shows up at his stores first, offices are like next door, he writes articles for every issue and JR stores were the only ones promoting Cigar Mania go figure

[bigpoppapuff]

CM is lew's/altadis...but you're all missing my question....wtf are the numbers??....

[CgarDan]

CM is lew's/altadis...but you're all missing my question....wtf are the numbers??....

Not sure if you are being sarcastic, I find the numbers quite easy to understand
Categories are:
Appearance -- low is 50 points high is 100
Taste -- low is 50 points high is 100
Construction --- low is 50 points high is 100

Quality = Appearnce points + Taste Points + Construction Points ( doubled)

Example == 87 + 88 + 88 ( X2) = 351

They also now have points for strength with 50 at the low and 100 at the high end of the scale These are just to describe strength and are not used in any other calculations.

As the mag states the review is done by random choice of their subscibers I guess similar to Smoke

[SuperChuck]

I kind of like the CM ratings... I can scan for taste and (to a lesser degree) construction, without losing points for looking ugly. (yay ugly!)

[cigar no baka]

I cant' really trust cigar review ratings. Your mileage may vary. For example, I do not like the taste of Padron cigars other than the 1964 and the 1926, but I know that many people love them. So if one of them gave a Padron a 92, and I tried it, I would be going WTF were they thinking?

[Desert Rat]

Lousy review, great review, doesn't matter, gotta smoke em to make my own mind up!

[varmas]

Hey

I kinda like reading a reviews
If my taste in cigars is different from the reviwers, I might just see what he thinks of one or other product. Besides, I can pick up some words or frazes - I allways liked people who can smoothly describe something as etheral as the taste os smoke

I once read a review on Montecristos (can't remember which one was it) and sat there thinking - "man, did the guy smoke the same thing as I did?". I also like RyJs better, but man - he said that the stick had "no taste" was "ashy ... earthy ... soft as water" and so on and so on.

I didn't like the review, but for eg. I understood what king of smoke he called water flavoured. It's when you have a bad taste in your moutn and try to wash it of with water. The water doesnt help all you get is a taste of bitter water that reminds a next-day-after-taste of a bad cigar. So something like that. Well, you know - watery smoke.

Well - my point is - I like reviews evin if it's the opposite of what I think about a sertain stick.