I can't beleive It's not Cuban...

[wayner123]

Originally Posted by yourchoice

My response was based on taste alone, regardless of the looks.
Blind taste tests can play tricks on you, no doubt. But when you light up a cigar, with the band on knowing exactly what it is and think it tastes "Cubanesque" then you have a real find (assuming you like Cubanesque ).

Well that's just the thing about Blind testing. If a group of people told you that so and so cigar tastes like a Cuban, and you went out and bought one with that pre-notion in your mind, it could sway you to think the same. Or at the very least give you pre-concieved ideas about it's taste. Where as with blind testing, there is no pre-concieved ideas on how it is going to taste. (unless, of course, you throughly examine them)

[yourchoice]

Originally Posted by wayner123

Well that's just the thing about Blind testing. If a group of people told you that so and so cigar tastes like a Cuban, and you went out and bought one with that pre-notion in your mind, it could sway you to think the same. Or at the very least give you pre-concieved ideas about it's taste. Where as with blind testing, there is no pre-concieved ideas on how it is going to taste. (unless, of course, you throughly examine them)

Understood and agreed. But when doing a blind test, someone may want something to be something that it's not and fool themselves into thinking it is what it isn't. (Does that sentence make sense? ) The mind can be a very complex thing!

[omowasu]

Originally Posted by yourchoice

Understood and agreed. But when doing a blind test, someone may want something to be something that it's not and fool themselves into thinking it is what it isn't. (Does that sentence make sense? ) The mind can be a very complex thing!

Also, the first stick may numb some of the taste buds to the flavors present in the second stick... Its a tough call...

Although, since it is being asked
Tatuaje Noellas (brown label)
Davidoff Millenuim

Also, the Davidoff #1 and #2s have tasted like a mild CC before, at least to me...