Greast Smoke! Is it just me?

[MMAB]

Right on - Absolutely... I agree wholeheartedly...

..............I've also found that something that I really liked several months ago, just doesn't do it for me anymore. Sometimes I think "what was I thinking???". I also find myself saying "WTF" when someone mentions liking a cigar I tried but could not stand...

I think people have specific tastes - some are VERY specific (some smokers I know won't take cigars I offer because it's not their brand) while others (including myself) like to experiment.

There are times when I fire up a new cigar I've never tried and just get that "WOW!" feeling. Of course, there are those times I light up a cigar and get the "BLECH" feeling!!! But - so goes the quest...

Interesting Ggiese.

Now I know that there are many factors that can affect a cigar's taste. What you may have eaten recently, hydration ( a big factor with me ), mood, etc.

I too sometimes smoke a cigar that is a favorite only to be disgusted with it and other times a cigar I normally don't enjoy tastes great.

Of course there is variation to a degree from cigar to cigar in a box, but sometimes the difference is drastic which leads me to believe that it is physiological / psychological in nature.

[CoventryCat86]

Maybe I should have started a different thread for this BUT I've found that my opinion on certain cigars CHANGES over time. Many years back, I thought "Remedios" from JR were one of the best cigars going. I loved the way they tasted. A few years later, I've found these to be nowhere near as good as I did back then.

I used to think very little of Opus X but now I absolutely love them.

Then I got on my Cuban cigar kick and like many, pretty much swore off anything non-Cuban. Over the past year, I have found that half the time I smoke Cuban cigars and the other half the time I smoke domestics in all price ranges. This isn't necessarily a $$ thing because most of the domestics I smoke cost MORE than the Havanas I smoke.

If you had asked me two years ago what I thought of La Aroma de Cuba, I probably would have told you that I liked them but now I do not. AND, it's not because I'm just into "snobby" cigars now because while I love most high end cigars, there are a few inexpensive domestics that I absolutely LOVE like the Torano Exodus 1959s and Oliva "O" Bolds.

A long time ago, one of my friends from college who smokes cigars BUT not anywhere near at the level I do now told me "Don't smoke just ONE brand all the time because you'll get sick of them." Sure enough, that has happened to me, I've kind of "overdosed" on them and got sick of them. That is very good advice which I highly recommend.

So, while I may tell you today that I don't think too much of La Aroma de Cubas, who knows, I may change my mind a few years down the line. For now though, I generally don't smoke them.