Tashaz

There is video around of an interview with Jorge Padron. In it he states "Spice is never something I have contributed to a good cigar" or something to that effect. Padron's history is in cuba. There is not a lot of cuban cigars that have "spice" as talked about commonly. Spice can be read two ways as the OP said, pepper or tannin. There is not much else IMHO, unless you work for CA magazine, then you might have a south gautamalian red coffee spice!. LOL.