A Crash Course In Cigar Tasting

[Vortigan]

http://botl.cigarseveryday.com/2009/01/a-c...-cigar-tasting/

[laficion]

The man has said it all, great article.

Thanks for sharing Vortigan.

[Vortigan]

It's quite liberating isn't it I'm printing and keeping cos I think I'll refer back to it on occasion.

[El Presidente]

It's quite liberating isn't it I'm printing and keeping cos I think I'll refer back to it on occasion.

Very apt article. Cheers mate.

[mkz]

Thanks for sharing!

Loved this part:

"There’s no wrong answer. There are snob answers, grandiose answers, unlikely answers, and oversimplifications; but ultimately, there’s no wrong answer. If it tastes like rhubarb tops to you then fine. There is no holy-standard, no ‘theory of everything†in the cigar world. As such, respect must be given to all of those who put voice to the analysis of a cigar."

[Ghabanos]

Great article. Forwarded along to a few buddies already... Def worth sharing.

[zathan]

Very good indeed. Thanks!

[BobKincaid]

That's a dandy good distillation of the question of how tastebuds relate to something inside the higher brain.

It made me wonder if, perhaps, bad (and I mean REALLY bad) cigars might open the palatte as much or more than good ones. A couple of weeks back, in one of my first responses to a post, I noted actually tasting fish in a bad cigar. That impression was unavoidable. So, too, was the sudden onset of genuinely hateful bitterness in a recent JLP, whose only flavor reminiscent was the time when I was a kid and an older kid convinced me to bite a green persimmon. As was the case with the JLP as it went flying out the window, that something that takes only once to register somewhere in the mind.

Some tastes, as the author notes, are relatively easy. Others light on us as out-of-the-blue. The first time I actually got the oily impression of pecan I was utterly shocked. Checked again. Yep. There it was. Pecans, freshly hulled, just a slight pleasant bitterness enfolding a meaty sweetness.

Subjectivity at its finest! Thanks for sharing the article. I've bookmarked it for future reference.