Cigars. Advices and recommendations. Part 2

May 31, 2010

Exist following signs that expose under-fermented or unripe cigar tobacco: strong or bitter flavor that remains on the tongue lips and in the mouth from cigar smoking; sense that reminds burning pain in the breast; cigar blows out easily. If under-fermented or "taw" was used, how long you wouldn't keep cigars in the box, it will not help.

The same mixture with different cigar size can have totally different flavor - it, mainly depends on the thickness, less - on cigar's length. The reason is cigars with big ring gauge, for example, 50 or 52 give immeasurably bigger smoke volume than cigars with ring gauge 28, 36 or even 42. Influence of cigar length on flavor is not so big and is explained with that 7 inches cigar, smoked up to 5.5 inches, for example, is perceived in flavor some differently that 5.5 inches cigar that you just begin to smoke. You should bear in mind that if one or another manufacturer produces good cigars of certain length and thickness, it doesn't mean that cigars of the same brand but of other sizes will be the same good. High price doesn't guarantee good quality. More expensive are manually made cigars but they, in process of manufacturing are subject to the same risks as their less expensive mates.

The largest price component of cigar is tobacco. Very substantial addition to price can give original package, aluminum or glass pipes for storing certain cigars, polished or of tapered structure cigar boxes made of cedar or redwood, gift sets of 5-10 cigars - all of this is very expensive. As result one cigar can cost 8-10 times more than its analog but in simple package and so on. But from other hand, it is well known how the price of an object can influence our attitude to it.

So, you decide, but in any case, how much you wouldn't pay, you will have to make approximately the same analyzes to find out how good one or another cigars are.

Connoisseurs recommend for smokers beginners soft, i.e. not strong cigars like Dunhill, Avo, Macanudo or Arturo Fuente, although the last once are not obligatory the same soft as Macanudo. Arturo Fuente Flor Fina 8-5-8 with natural covering leaf (light tints of covering leaf generally characterize softer cigars) - good inexpensive cigar that has won positive opinions of smokers-beginners. Macanudo Baron de Rothschild Cafe or Macanudo's Hampton Court, Dunhill's Tabaras, Avo's No. 2 (in the last three is used covering leaf like Connecticut Shade) also are suitable for beginners (and not only).

And the last thing. Choose cigar that corresponds with your appearance. For people that have "graceful" constitution don't suit thick cigars and vice versa.