El Presidente Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 With all the polls recently ....I am actually going somewhere with them. Bear with me Have a crack.
poisonowns Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 ^Agreed. Honey is a tough one for me. Fruit is also kind of tough. I chalk it up to an underdeveloped palette. Cream chocolate nuts hay grass wood "a sweetness" are all easily discernable. Specifics on different types of pepper are tough unless it smacks me in the face.
PapaDisco Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 I don't taste honey nearly as much as I'd like to! I definitely taste it, in the cigars that were meant to have it, but there are many variations on the sweet theme.
Rye Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 I definitely taste it, in the cigars that were meant to have it, but there are many variations on the sweet theme.I fully agree. I have pulled definite honey flavour, but it isn't a common sweet trait.
MIKA27 Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 It's hard to find honey in a cigar but it never disappoints to enjoy a San Cristobal La Punta which also has some molasses and Honey notes. 1
oliverdst Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Just once could taste honey: in a Edmundo Dantes 54. 1
jdo2110 Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Agreed: aged Cohiba for honey For fruit I'm finding that RyJ carries it, especially black cherry. 2
seanbeer Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 cohiba has honey but only when you hit a good one, so can trinidad, of coz when you hit good one. Cream most easy to get from Montecristo, all Edumundo has it... almost all sweet cigar has chocolate.
Surucipe Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 I certainly am not very good at picking up certain flavors and defining / naming them. Of course it very much depends on your taste/smell frame of reference for other things like food and drinks, or anything really, so imo it will probably differ quite a lot depending on the region where you live, culture, or just personal preferences / habits. A taste which I usually can pick up quite easily is nuts (hazelnuts actually) in e.g. a RASS. Chocolate is also something that I pick up regularly. Honey on the other hand is something that has never entered my mind when I taste a cigar. When I taste sweetness in a cigar (like e.g. in the PL Robusto RE), I connect that more with a caramel kind of sweetness. Of course when somebody says at that moment that it tastes like honey, then I will make that mental note as well and then that sweetness will taste a lot more honey-like than before. But on my own, tasting honey in a cigar, no, never happened. Just my opinion. 1
ZinZan Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Honey not as common as the other 2 but yes on occasions.
shlomo Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Many of my older cabs of plpc have honey. I have no idea about cream. It's a vague flavour description to me. Milk chocolate I find in Monte pe and some limiteds have milk, others have dark.
fingerburner Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Honey I find most in aged Double Corona's, Cohiba's, PL's and SLR's. It's something I really enjoy in a cigar although it usually happens in glimpses. Cream notes for me tend to be found in cigars with lighter wrappers that are well balanced with a light/medium body. Chocolate I rarely detect outside of a dark shade wrapper. Full bodied smokes. Visual power of suggestion more than actual flavour perhaps?
CaptainQuintero Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Cream- upmann, monte, dip(sour cream), partagas (spiced), sancho Panza, Trinidad (burnt) Chocolate - some Cohiba like esplendidos, upmann mag 46 but other upmanns it's mostly in the smoke aroma, monte, sometime por larranaga, sometimes RASS, sancho Panza Honey-Cohiba a lot, erdm a lot. LGC My 2c 1
SCgarman Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Love the shortbread cookie note in the Upmann petit coronas. Love the fruitcake note in the RASS, you really have to search for it and use your imagination sometimes.
KoreanCowboy Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Honey is an interesting flavor in cigars. I think if you guys look for the aftertaste of honey, which isn't nearly as sweet as the initial taste, you will notice it a lot more. It took me a while to be able to identify it but after I stopped looking for the overwhelming sweet taste, it was very easy to taste it. 2
MatthewB Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 All 3 flavours in abundance within 1 cigar - sign me up......
headstand Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 I'm with Shlomo with respect to cream as a vague flavour. I have had creamy textured cigars, but I don't think that is what Rob has in mind. Clearly I need to do more tasting of cream in its various forms: whip, heavy, 10%, 50/50...
OkieJoe Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 I get the honey smoke mildly out of cohibas, but every now and then I open a box and the honey is almost dripping out of it
Smallclub Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 I'm with Shlomo with respect to cream as a vague flavour. I have had creamy textured cigars, but I don't think that is what Rob has in mind. I agree. In this regard, in french, when a reviewer writes about a "creamy cigar", it's related to the texture, not to the taste. 1
finecigar Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Yes cream is not so certain for my palette. As I would consider it many different flavors. But I definitely get honey... Especially in a couple boxes of Fundadores currently and in some mature cigars. Chocolate seems to be coming out more in many cigars from my experience... Monte 520 has definite chocolate goodness!
Pedro2486 Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 With all the polls recently ....I am actually going somewhere with them. Bear with me Have a crack. Can't wait to see where this rabbit hole ends up. Interesting Cream and chocolate I get a bit but it's more of a flavor sensation I equate with these. Honey not so much, I get sweet but don't really think honey
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