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What was the most unique nuance/flavor you have detected in a cigar? 

Are there any exercises you partake in to develop your sense of taste?

Does anyone else scribble notes when they eat something/smell something, thinking that it might be a flavor they have tasted in a cigar before?

 

TLDR: Ate a fancy sampling last night for the GF's birthday.  Yuzu was a flavor I found interesting.

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anise

mint

soap

aluminium

"exercises you partake in to develop your sense of taste?"

a lifetime of paying attention to what goes in my mouth...........

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Tastes for me are reference points from past experience (food, drink, other). 

It is always an interesting exercise to occasionally write notes when you are smoking a cigar. Even for people who believe that they struggle in picking out flavours, an hour with a notepad and a cigar can be a revelation when you look at your note book upon completion of the cigar. More than likely you will find it is a pot pourri of tastes, questions, doodles :D. If it helps, use the tasting wheel below to help with your thoughts. 

 

For me, there are certain flavour nuances that I adore but rarely find.

  • marshamallow
  • licorice

There are certainly some I come across and really dislike. 

  • Soap/lanolin
  • metal

 

 

 

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11 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

Tastes for me are reference points from past experience (food, drink, other). 

It is always an interesting exercise to occasionally write notes when you are smoking a cigar. Even for people who believe that they struggle in picking out flavours, an hour with a notepad and a cigar can be a revelation when you look at your note book upon completion of the cigar. More than likely you will find it is a pot pourri of tastes, questions, doodles :D. If it helps, use the tasting wheel below to help with your thoughts. 

 

For me, there are certain flavour nuances that I adore but rarely find.

  • marshamallow
  • licorice

There are certainly some I come across and really dislike. 

  • Soap/lanolin
  • metal

 

 

 

No driftwood? ?

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I remember a cigar called El Cobre that had a cherry flavor dropping in and out.

I know El Pres finds cherry in his RyJ churchills,and I have a couple waiting for a trial.............

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Fresh linen dryer sheet from an 09 lusi. Odd at first, but it was there for a good inch of the first third. Was remarkably good through the retrohale. If i knew i could get that exact same cigar again id pay absurdly.

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For me

Marshmallow in my ERDM CS from 2006

Sauteed mushroom in Cohiba Piramides EL 2006

Lemon zest in a 1943 Clear Havana (WM Panatellas)

Fresh blueberry in a Monte 4 Circa 2009

Anise is many cigars i've smoked.

 

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Uni on the cold draw. A few times. It's like a tidal pool - salt, seaweed, slightly fishy somewhat. Not so much as driftwood which I also understand.....

 

I've also had what I've described as marshmallow a few times as well - generally 20+ year old smokes. Last I recall was a '93 CCE last spring.

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10 hours ago, dvickery said:

Only ever in bolivar coronas juniors from '03 ... Spleef ... Really good spleef the kind that came on a stick from Thailand .

derrek

Since this is one of my go-to cigars, I have to ask, Derrek, what is spleef?

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I hav

12 hours ago, ayepatz said:

To be serious for a mo, I think the rarest thing I've tasted is apple. I've had flashes of green apple in a couple of cigars and loved it.

SLR serie A ....I sort of laughed when Rob mentioned it.... purchased a fifty cab from him....I noticed it as well. Green apple...

Monte 520  had a really cool type of smoke that tasted of mint.... only once though.... it was a sensational smoke...

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Since this is one of my go-to cigars, I have to ask, Derrek, what is spleef?

Weed think it'd be better if you ask Mary Jane Warner..... Although the answer might be a bit doobie-ous.

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3 hours ago, Akela3rd said:

Weed think it'd be better if you ask Mary Jane Warner..... Although the answer might be a bit doobie-ous.emoji85.pngemoji86.pngemoji87.png

Ahhh, he was meaning spliff... (never heard of spleef so far). Thanks Akela! Was somehow expecting such, but thought that couldn't be what he meant. Never got that from a BCJ! Well, perhaps if you are so blunt to abuse that stick..., but who'd really do that with a nice '03 BCJ?!!  :D

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