tonygraz wrote:You need some work on your personality tho.
At least I have one!
(rimshot smiley, except there isn't one, but there should be!)bgz wrote:Just bustin' ballz.
People like what they like.
All I gotta say about your story, if it's true... then you probably smoke way too much :D
It's fun busting balls!
And I'm not sure it's my actual palate "hardware" being abnormally good. My palate hardware might be normal, and it may have more to do with the process I've used for many years.
It boils down to just paying close attention to the composition (component tobaccos) of every cigar, usually found in its marketing writeup, as you smoke it and letting your brain notice correspondences over time.
Smoke three different cigars, all of which have Dominican Piloto Cubano in their fillers, but are different blends otherwise? Notice a common sub-flavor in all three? THAT is what Dominican Piloto Cubano tastes like! File it away in your brain.
Do that enough times over enough years, and you develop a mental database of "this sub-flavor = this kind of tobacco" entries.
Then someone hands you a new cigar, and you can easily deconstruct it into its component tobaccos, by taking each sub-flavor and "looking it up" in your memory.
It's fun, and it impresses people at tasting events, but it's otherwise mostly useless.
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