You mean you can't taste it in your cigars?
The "hints of roasted meat" comments kinda make me wonder too. Shanken uses this term quite a bit.You have to ask? What kind of roasted meat? Lamb, Pork, Beef???
The "hints of roasted meat" comments kinda make me wonder too. Shanken uses this term quite a bit.You have to ask? What kind of roasted meat? Lamb, Pork, Beef???
I do not know much about Marvin Shanken's way of describing cigars but why should anyone be ridiculed just because he uses somewhat unusual terms when it comes to describing certain parts of the taste and aroma?How bout pencil lead and iodine?? I think the man is crazy!!
If it's less about that and more about the anti snob thing, I think I better understand. I can appreciate that other people can equally enjoy a cigar without being able to taste or try to find hints of dried apricot and that they aren't less of a smoker for not trying that.
If you were to have little cups of black pepper, leather, cocoa, coffee beans, cedar shavings, pencil shavings, straw, grass, cherries, cinnamon, and yes your 7 year aged burnt Madagascar vanilla; and compare the hints of flavor that you experience, you would probably be surprised.