Holding smoke & tasting
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How long do you usually hold the smoke in your mouth? Ive found a few times that if i hold it a few seconds (longest ive held was 3 seconds... nasty nasty). There have been a few times where ive noticed other darker flavors after about 2 seconds. As for "tasting" the smoke do you blow out the smoke and then take in some air, sip of a drink or just close up your mouth and let it emerge itself? what are your tasting methods? I dont want to be missing out on flavors that could be enjoyed.
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You have draw flavors, and these are present in the entire mouth and leave with exhale
Tip of tongue-this is the flavors that distinctly show up there
Mid tongue-this can be both the draw and post draw, but flavors sit here and mesh with the roof of the mouth
Back of tongue/mouth-this is where some of the acidic, metallic, heavy spice notes sit from cheaper smokes, or where a long finish develops from an excellent cigar
Roof of mouth-the palate, more of an all encompassing general flavor where everything meets up IMO
Nostrils-obviously, this is where you get flavors form the retrohale
Henke Kelner from Davidoff can explain this better, and I cannot wait to sit down with him and discuss tasting. All of these spots seems to be specific tasting zones that come up in different reviews form different people. Everyone experiences in different ways, but these zones seem to be where they describe. now there is also a scientific way of looking at the mouth and tasting, and you can look that up easy, I just find this specific to cigars.
Lastly, when a good cigar starts to present a note in one of these zones, and it develops for a few minutes, then I note that as a tasting note and where I got it. Many times, those flavors will move over the course of the cigar and leave and/or come back.
ive held for WAY longer than 3 seconds. those flavors dont need to be bad.
it may be the cigar that is the issue.
it may be you.
For me, I keep a little bit of smoke in my mouth and let is sit a few seconds then release it through my nose. I've tried larger amounts of smoke but it really burns. So I just do a little.
Lol yeah it was a really bad burnt taste (kinda seems like an oxymoron to complain about burnt flavors lol) it was my first maduro too. So coming off mostly mild and flavored cigars it was a bit of a flavor shock in the first place. Lol in starting to get into the complexity of maduros now so it may have just been a taste I didn't recognize. For clarification though it was held 3 seconds after the pull, not counting pull time.
I drink "Torres". Its not 1866 which is supposedly not available in the US. it is dark brown in color and if there is something in your stomach it won't burn. Its not bad. My liquor store is searching for the possibility of gettin 1866. The Torres likes a lot of different cigars. Or is it I like a lot of Torres. LOL