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billmerit Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 9:36 AM EST
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I just read a tasting description that talked about flavors of sugar, leather, nuts, coffee and cinnamon, but didn't say anything about tobbacco. No wonder Drew Estate is so confused. (and that's without the incense!).
mhollowa Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 10:21 AM EST
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I sure know when they're tasteless...
xrundog Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 10:39 AM EST
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I understand sugar, spice, even pepper. I haven't tasted leather (who wants to taste leather?),coffee or caramel in a cigar. I am also not sure what woody and vegetal are although I have an idea. I have also had dry tasting cigars. If you pay more for a cigar do you get more flavors?
decasere_CW Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 11:24 AM EST
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I think that cigars with a leathery aroma are especially nice and smooth, think rich corinthian leather like Ricardo Montablan would like.
Todog Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 1:58 PM EST
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Just what I want in a cigar, the taste of someone's nuts!
donutboy2000 Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 3:58 PM EST
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To each his own.
TomRep Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 4:06 PM EST
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I had a Players Club figuro by Don Diego tonight that was full of nice flavors. Started as a pretty strong cedar flavor. after a couple minutes it turned into a more intense bread flavor with a hint of vanilla. At the end it finished in a coffee flavor with some spice to it. Happy smoking all!!
jjohnson28 Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 4:19 PM EST
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Henry Clay(Broadleaf wrapper)=Leather/coffee,to me anyways.
decasere_CW Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 5:04 PM EST
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what???
ellesson Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 5:59 PM EST
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sometimes I wonder If the "professionals" who do these ratings are nothing more than wackos with a big vocabulary and too much time on there hands. I have been smoking cigars for 24 years. I have only been into the premiums for 4 of those years. A cigar tastes like a cigar. Some are better and some really suck. I have nut yet tasted nuts,cinnamon,laether, roses or cow dung in a cigar. I know that if I am smoking 3 or 4 a day a stronger cigar is no problem but if I havent smoked to much for a while the same cigar will have me dizzy and on the floor half way through it and does no seem to taste the same as it did before. I realise that no individual cigar is equal to another and can actually vary greatly in a bad batch. Anyway... the ciagar ratings are almost a useless as movie critics!!!!! cj
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 6:18 PM EST
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ellesson & billmerit: if the truth be known i have tasted fried chicken after a chicked diner, chocolate after a malted, and leather after i have chewed the sheba's rawhide trying to show her what she is supposed to do. i can't remember what a cigar tasted like after a toasted onion bagel with a shmear.
mmay Offline
#12 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 6:54 PM EST
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Elleson has nailed it - wackos with big vocabularies - they are consultants!
tailgater Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 7:51 PM EST
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A Schmear of cream cheese or lox?
Todog Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 8:30 PM EST
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How does anyone know the flavor of cedar or leather? I have never tasted my leather jacket or shoes nor have I taken a bite out my cedar cabin in Wisconsin! John
jjohnson28 Offline
#15 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 8:47 PM EST
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Pap Schmear? Didn't know They served onion bagels at the OBGYN's office. :^)
jjohnson28 Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, Feb 19 2002, 8:59 PM EST
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OK maybe hints of Cedar and or leather are more olfactory sensations,although I have tasted cedar/leather when machining or milling it.You can't tell me you don't taste Coa coa in Perdomo products or Coffee in CAO's and a few others.CA is way out of hand though with some or most of their descriptions.Try CW for some hands on reviews,done by regular cigar smoking guys like you and me.Hell even yours truly has done a few reviews for them.LOL.CW=? [email protected]
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#17 Posted: Wed, Feb 20 2002, 12:27 AM EST
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shmear = smear = whipped cream cheese. lox is extra.
delarob Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Feb 20 2002, 2:15 AM EST
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sweet, spicey, coffee, creamy. These I can see.

I saw a review the other day listed a flavor as "Loam". oooooook.
gdurfor Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Feb 20 2002, 7:26 AM EST
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I have a 4 tier rating system
Great Good OK toss
Charlie Offline
#20 Posted: Wed, Feb 20 2002, 8:08 AM EST
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Here is a rating for one of the more famous cigars that have been sold on closeouts on CB. Taste like bad perfume, smells like sh-t, with gentle dry overtures of cat urine and harsh followon leathery taste. The Hamilton House has all of that! Charlie
decasere_CW Offline
#21 Posted: Wed, Feb 20 2002, 10:58 AM EST
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fallowon? what does that mean, is it Canadian maybe. Cigar tasting is your own thing, it is mostly smell, and no i have never tasted leather, but thats what it reminds me of, i have never tated piss, yet i know that is what budwieser tastes like, has anyone ever tasted crap?, and that is what people describe bad food as tasting like.
BMW Offline
#22 Posted: Wed, Feb 20 2002, 1:58 PM EST
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mmay, Consultants are S**t salesman with a mouth full of samples. Barry
tailgater Offline
#23 Posted: Wed, Feb 20 2002, 3:01 PM EST
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The same thing is true with wine. It seems that most every Cab or Shiraz is described as having currant and oak overtones, with hints of oak or even chestnuts. What the hell is a currant? And is there any way to tell the taste difference between oak and mahogany? Yes, we know it was aged in oak barrels. But if someone swithed the oak with another hardwood would anybody notice? pass the lox please, I'm splurging...
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#24 Posted: Wed, Feb 20 2002, 9:14 PM EST
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tailgater: i assume you would also like with your order some thin sliced onions and a dr. browns cream soda.
Charlie Offline
#25 Posted: Thu, Feb 21 2002, 10:35 AM EST
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A current is a raison! But I agree with the descriptions of cigars and wine, being a little on the phoney side to say the least!!!! Charlie
delarob Offline
#26 Posted: Fri, Feb 22 2002, 2:35 AM EST
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Can the different woods be tasted? I say yes. Those of you that do wood working I would think would agree. Sand a peice of cedar, and sand a piece of oak, or pine. When I get the dust in my nose, there are subtle differences in the wood.
bud451 Offline
#27 Posted: Fri, Feb 22 2002, 8:21 AM EST
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AaaaahaaAAAA! A raisin is a grape and grapes float. Wood also floats. You can burn wood and cigars therefor tobacco must be made of wood, and that's where the "notes of cedar" come from.
tailgater Offline
#28 Posted: Fri, Feb 22 2002, 5:57 PM EST
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what else floats? Little tiny pebbles...
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