What Cohiba?

[LordAnubis]

So from blind tastings we know the following;

2017 - No one mistook the Punch Punch for a Siglo 4. A second Corona Gorda that was actually a siglo 4 was guessed by only 4 people out of over 70 in the competition.

2018 - a RASS was mistaken for a CoRo by 2 people. A second cigar, a CoRo was picked by 7 people out of 79 participants.

2019- a D4 was mistaken for a CoRo by 9 people out of 91 participants. The CoRO was correctly chosen by 14 out the 91 participants. The bolivar petite corona was incorrectly picked as Siglo 2 by 3 people.

2021 - a Boli PC was mistaken for Siglo 2 by 3 people out of 57 participants. Monte 4 was not mistake for Cohiba. Aged D4 was mistake for CoRo by 8 people.

Now i get that we all think Rob is too cheap to put Cohibas in blind tastings (and we can bet the house it wont happen again 🤣), so yes there is a mentality that goes to a blind tasting that potentially has some impact. However, i think the evidence shows that when someone is given a cohiba, about 90% don't know it from any other regular production. Its interesting to note that less people mistakenly think something for a cohiba when it is in fact not. Would be interesting to go back and see what the highest guesses were for cohibas and so on.

So relax people, we wouldn't know a cohiba from a guantanamera anyway. Habanos is just saving us money. That's their grand plan, they're looking out for us. Thanks Habanos!

[NSXCIGAR]

I mistook a BPC for a Siglo II in 19 I believe. I still swear it was and will to my dying day. Never had a BPC like it before. 

[Hammer Smokin']

But the guantanamera ain't getting you any social media cred.

[Islandboy]

Pro tip: Alcohol helps make any cigar taste like a Cohiba....or maybe it makes a Cohiba taste like any other cigar, I forget.

[La_Tigre]

15 hours ago, Hammer Smokin' said:

But the guantanamera ain't getting you any social media cred.

Guantanamera….Someone lit a broom on fire in a cigarette butt filled ashtray…That type of grassy flavor isn’t the one we’re looking for….

[CaptainQuintero]

 In 2015 or 16 I swore blind the robusto was a coro, after the first 3 or 4 puffs I even laughed and shook my head. It was by the the most Cohiba-ry Cohiba I'd ever had. I just sat back and enjoyed the rest of it feeling immensely smug.

Was a BRC

[Sir Diggamus]

I was definitely one of the ones that mistook the PSD4 for the CoRo in the blind tasting last year. I swear there were honey and cream notes that had me peg it as the CoRo. It still was a fantastic cigar. 

[Nocoins]

These blind tasting results always remind me of the brand/flavor homogenization we talked about during 2006-2010, if I recall the years correctly. Cigars from the same box taste different, better, worse, and just like other cigars, and it seems to be a Cuban phenomenon. Never sure what to make of it.

[LordAnubis]

So on the 2019 group, of the guesses for the CoRo, 16% picked correctly a CoRo, 19% picked JL2, 11% picked Epi 2, 9% picked BRC, 7% Ryj Short, the rest were a few votes for others like D4,Rass, RyJEx4 and Regios. 28% didnt vote.

Interesting, wonder if the JL2 were a particularly good batch that year.

[Chucko8]

On 6/11/2022 at 11:58 AM, Islandboy said:

Pro tip: Alcohol helps make any cigar taste like a Cohiba....or maybe it makes a Cohiba taste like any other cigar, I forget.

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