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  1. #1
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    Default Easy way to have fun

    Okay, so this is another way to have fun with the whole tasting thing:

    Get the latest Wine Bible or well respected Wine Rating Guide. Memorize like 4 or 5 wine's aspects of tastes. Then goto a wine bar and order those wines over the period of an hour or so, talk to the waiter about all the tastes so s/he gets the idea you really know what you're talking about. Then, order a wine that you don't know anything about, start talking about the tannins, this or that taste while dropping in the random word like, "mmmmmm, is that a hint of kahki?" "Am I detecting a little flannel? maybe 1990?" By that time the waiter thinks you know your stuff and you can just have fun bs'in the rest of the time.

    I think elmer's would be a great idea too :-) Totally, "I think I taste a little Elmer's on the tip of my tongue."

    Great stuff guys.

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    just keep smoking. whether you figure out the tastes or not is unimportant. what matters is if you enjoy the cigar or not.

    about your question, i have been smoking cigars for two years now. thats about all the time i had to try out many different stuff and decide which ones i really like.
    You are what you eat. That's why I'm a fat bastard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigMacFU
    Okay, so this is another way to have fun with the whole tasting thing:

    Get the latest Wine Bible or well respected Wine Rating Guide. Memorize like 4 or 5 wine's aspects of tastes. Then goto a wine bar and order those wines over the period of an hour or so, talk to the waiter about all the tastes so s/he gets the idea you really know what you're talking about. Then, order a wine that you don't know anything about, start talking about the tannins, this or that taste while dropping in the random word like, "mmmmmm, is that a hint of kahki?" "Am I detecting a little flannel? maybe 1990?" By that time the waiter thinks you know your stuff and you can just have fun bs'in the rest of the time.

    I think elmer's would be a great idea too :-) Totally, "I think I taste a little Elmer's on the tip of my tongue."

    Great stuff guys.
    yeah....and most of those waiters would not say a word....then probably use it on their customers later thinking it's a new term

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    Default Ok....

    It seems many folks get the impression that when they light up a cigar that they are going to "taste" certain flavors like chocolate, coffee, spice, flint, steel, etc. etc.

    Personally I believe that what is meant is that there are certain flavor notes that "remind" one of these flavors, not actually tasting them.

    For example. A good cigar with a sungrown wrapper always gives me a suggestion of cinnamon. You don't actually taste cinnamon but there are certain characteristics that remind you of it. The smoke has a certain spicy heat or bite with a little sweetness.

    Many CAO Gold line cigars, in particular the torpedo, have nutty characteristics. I don't actually taste nuts but the flavor is suggestive of them in the way it strikes your palette.

    Some cigars like many Perdomos have a creamy feel to the smoke. It begins to suggest coffee flavors. I suppose that many of the taste perceptions may be a little psychological in that something begins to remind you of this flavor and your brain carries on with the rest.

    As the others said, don't worry about it. What is most important is that you smoke what you enjoy for whatever flavor perceptions and preferences that you have.


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