How to judge the quality of the cigar in your hand?

About the wrapper

To taste cigars, you first need to sit down and experience it in an all-round way with the five senses of sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing. This is the most intuitive feeling from the human body. Vision and touch are of the same origin. When you pick up a cigar from the humidor, you are actually looking at it. You will be attracted by the beautiful appearance and smooth feel of the cigar. Its silky texture, smooth texture, and shiny color will definitely make you have unlimited reverie.

Of course, the texture of wrapper tobacco leaves in different places is different, and each has its own characteristics. The best wrapper leaves from Cuba are indeed silk-like, with a smooth, soft structure, elasticity and toughness. In contrast, the Cameroon wrapper has a bumpy surface and the wrapper is oily. These rugged surfaces contain a full-bodied taste and pure eggplant aroma. Wrappers from Connecticut and Ecuador are smoother in texture, and good Ecuadorian tobacco leaves are smooth to the touch but can look a little uneven. The Connecticut wrapper is darker in color and not smooth to the touch, but has a shiny luster.

Although the oiliness present in the wrapper varies in intensity, the presence of oil in the wrapper indicates that the cigar is well moisturized and relatively cool when smoked. The taste of cool cigars is also relatively rich, because your nose and taste buds capture not only the flavor of hot carbonized tobacco leaves, but more subtle flavors. Of course, there are no cracks or wrinkles on a well-preserved cigar wrapper. If there are loose, expanding circles or shrinkage, the internal structure is damaged. Internal damage means that the draw is not smooth and the combustion is unbalanced.

About ash

After lighting the cigar, you can make further visual assessments. The first is soot. The whiter the soot, the better. White soot is better than gray soot. This is not just a matter of aesthetics. Fuente once said: "The whiter the ashes produced by burning, the better the tobacco leaves, and the better the tobacco leaves, the better the taste." Of course, ash is not something to taste and taste, but gray ash means that the tobacco leaves are grown. The soil lacks some important nutrients, leaving the cigar with only a solid body or a dull taste

About burning

The last basis for visually judging the quality of a cigar is the quality of the cigar. Burn rate, unbalanced combustion will distort the flavor. Different tobacco leaves and configurations determine the burning speed of the cigar. It can taste mild at first, then strong, or more. The reason why there are so many variations in taste is mainly because the tobacco leaves come from different regions. Unbalanced combustion marginalizes the various flavors of the cigar, and it is easy to create a state where one side of the cigar is already burning and the other side has stopped. These will cause the sipping to be sluggish, the smoke to become very strong, the taste to become very single, and have no mouthfeel

About aroma and taste

Taste and smell are almost inseparable" Partner,” many people have a high sense of taste or smell. And many people have experienced nasal congestion affecting their taste function. Theoretically, if you lose your sense of smell, half of your taste buds are also lost, especially when smoking cigars, because you are not eating cigars, but smelling cigars. .

In order to achieve the perfect taste of cigars, cigar manufacturers are very concerned about the aroma and smoke delivered by cigars. Aroma and taste are inseparable: "The aroma does not have to be strong or very mild, but without it, the cigar would have no flavor." Instead, flavor can be quantified.

However, there is still a certain degree of analysis and observation in cigars. These tobacco leaf experts admit that the quality of cigars can be distinguished by observing the richness and complexity of tobacco leaves, ash, burning speed and taste. But that doesn’t mean your romance with cigars is over, it just means you can get to know them better. Of course, these standards and understandings are all theoretical. What is more important is to practice it yourself according to the above standards and steps in the process of smoking cigars, and then summarize your own standards from personal experience, and you will also become an authority.

Okay, today I will briefly introduce it to you. Cigars need to be experienced by yourself to experience their beauty. It’s better to taste a cigar yourself than to watch it ten thousand times.

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