Have you ever picked up a copy of a popular cigar magazine and wondered what it would be like to be a fly on the wall at their blind tasting? On many occasions I have read the blind reviews and wondered if they went about the review in the same way that I did.
Do these guys talk to themselves and second guess the flavors they are picking out of the smoke like I do? Does their instinct to reach for a pad and paper kick in when smoking a new cigar like mine does?
What if the person doing the review was just your average Joe and was given a cigar without a band on it to smoke, how would they react and rate the cigar? The bottom line is most people don’t over analyze a cigar like some of us do. While we enjoy smoking a cigar in this way, we are in the minority. The bread and butter, or meat and potatoes of the industry is made of your average guy sitting down for a smoke in the company of friends.
Knowing that these blind reviews are mainly made up of your average Joe enjoying a smoke, would you still want to be a fly on the wall of their tasting?
The Stogie Review Blind Tasting.
Sounds like this could be very interesting, and you can bet I’ll be checking it out tomorrow!
This is gonna be a must see for all. I seen the CA blind rating method video and was wondering what other methods might be used for rating cigars. Does smoking them with friends as opposed to strangers play a factor in scoring/rating ? interesting indeed. C ya tomorrow.