danmdevries wrote:When I first got into cigars I wasn't smoking anything much smaller than a 60.
I steered clear of the slimmer ones because I was afraid of burning them and ruining the cigar with too hard too fast a draw. After doing a few trades here, I've a well rounded assortment of sizes and ive just recently started smoking some of the narrow ring sizes.
But I'm not getting the hot burned tar flavor that I was getting if I drew too hard or too often on others.
Are slimmer sticks more resistant due to greater surface area to filler ratio? Or am I subconsciously taking it easy on them?
Am I misinterpreting the experience or was my initial impression incorrect? Can you draw more frequently on a 40 ring than a 60 and avoid the heat?
Perhaps you are over thinking this just a tad.
As it's been said numerous times before, many many brands and lines within that brand start out as coronas. Once the blend is perfected, additional vitolas are added to the mix until a new product line is born. Not always, but quite a few.
Generally, the smaller the ring gauge, the more wrapper flavor you get. The last cigar I smoked was a Viaje Platino Lancero. It's a 7" long 38 ring smoke. The only "heat" I experienced was on my finger tips as I smoked down to the last inch.
That being said it had a rich chocolaty flavor all the way through.