Did anyone ever read a lousy review?

[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.

[cigarsarge]

I reviewed for Smoke Magazine a few times. I gave several less than favorable reviews on some cigars. Well...They changed the wording on them to shed a better light on them.

Guess what...I found some of the ones I gave a less than favorable rating to had purchased ad space in the magazine. It's all about money in the magazine ratings IMHO.

I really enjoyed rating cigars for them...I just wish they would have used my origioinal wording.

[Cabaiguan Juan]

I like reading others reviews of cigars, but I tend to focus on how they describe the flavor. Flavor is more important to me then construction or appearance since I'm smoking it for the taste, and not to simply watch the appearance change into near white ash. I take the reviews with a grain of salt as I do with any review. Like so many said, I will ultimately decide for my own if I like or dislike a certain cigar. However to complicate that, I may hate a cigar, and decide never to smoke it again, only to smoke it again under different circumstances and enjoy it. That kind sucks cuz now I'm at a toss up about how I feel about it, and at this point it gets viciously complicated and so begins the downward spiral only to be fueled by the Devil site.

[CgarDan]

I reviewed for Smoke Magazine a few times. I gave several less than favorable reviews on some cigars. Well...They changed the wording on them to shed a better light on them.

Guess what...I found some of the ones I gave a less than favorable rating to had purchased ad space in the magazine. It's all about money in the magazine ratings IMHO.

I really enjoyed rating cigars for them...I just wish they would have used my origioinal wording.

do you remmember which issues I would look them up out of curiosity

[cigarsarge]

do you remmember which issues I would look them up out of curiosity

Let me dig around and find em...

Found em...I'm in the Winter 2003-2004 with Jimmy Smits on the cover and Spring 2004 with Melinda Clarke on the cover.

On the reviewers page I'm the charming looking guy in the Cohiba T-shirt.

[JHarri31]

Generally I don't have any faith in the objectiveness of reviewers, but they tend to be semi-accurate with regards to the construction and "flavor" of the cigar. The problem I find is that they can't seem to give a cigar a bad score. I just find descriptions that align with my tastes and if it's a POS then I just won't be a repeat customer.

[brian]

Not sure if this link has been posted anywhere else on the board, but here it is if you haven't been there.
Unbiased reviews on MANY cigars.

http://www.top25cigar.com/reviewdata...rod=yes&pkID=7

[Dru Lee Parsec]

I wonder if part of the issue is just that print space is so rare and expensive that maybe CA doesn't want to waste it on a review of a poor cigar?

Also, I think that with all reviews you just have to search until you find a reviewer that has the same taste as you and then go with that. In San Diego there's a film reviewer named Duncan Shepard. He pretty much hates everything that's being put out on film today. People are constantly writing in complaning about his reviews. But then again, let's admit it, how much social contribution can a movie like X-Men 2 really make? It's mindless fluff and Duncan says so.

In any case, I tend to agree with Duncan. I think most movies lately are a waste of film stock. So when I read his reviews I tend to like what he likes. I bet it's the same thing with cigar reviewers. You find one sho likes the same type of things that you do and then let him guide you to new things.