ZRX1200 wrote:Have you never smoked a sungrown 858 or Hemingway? A Magnum Rosado? Aged Opus? Aged Anejo? WTF is wrong with you?
There are lots of people who agree with me about Fuentes, and lots who disagree. It's not a right or wrong thing. Palates simply differ among individuals.
When I was in grade school, they sent us home with an experiment: strips of paper with a chemical on them. We were told to go to all our local relatives and have them press the paper to their tongue, then record whether or not they tasted a bitterness. Some did, and made an 'ick' face, and some had zero reaction and said, 'it's just paper, there's no taste'.
In that case, a certain specific gene causes either the ability, or lack of ability, to taste the bitter chemical. It's just one example of the kind of person-to-person differences that might be at work when different people have different experiences with a certain cigar brand.
If I lack the genes to taste most or all of Fuente's best flavors, and you lack the genes to taste those of another cigar brand, then we can argue all day that the other is crazy, but it'd just be different genetics.
By the way, they don't do that experiment in schools anymore, at least around here. It seems that certain combinations of "taste/no taste" for mom, dad and kid are genetically impossible given how inheriting of genes works, but were nevertheless turning up in the results. Impossible, that is, if "dad" really IS the kid's dad. Ouch. So yeahhhhh, that experiment went bye-bye. Heh-heh.