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Cigar flavor quiz: find your likely cigar taste profile
Your taste in coffee, chocolate, spice and drinks says a lot about the cigars you will enjoy. Answer six questions and get a starting profile across the twelve cigar flavor families.
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How the quiz works
Each answer adds weight to some of the twelve flavor families used in cigar tasting: dark chocolate points to chocolate, coffee and earth; bourbon to sweetness and wood; hot food to pepper. The result is a starting point, built from tastes outside cigars. Your real profile comes from rating the cigars you actually smoke.
Read more about the families in how to build your cigar flavor profile.
Questions
- How accurate is a cigar flavor quiz?
- It is a starting point. Preferences outside cigars often carry over, but the profile that really predicts what you enjoy is built from rating cigars you have smoked.
- What cigar should a beginner start with?
- Usually a mild or mild-to-medium cigar with a Connecticut Shade wrapper, in a robusto or corona size, smoked slowly after a meal.
Keep reading
- How to build your cigar flavor profile: the 12 flavor familiesWood, leather, pepper, cream: the twelve cigar flavor families, how to recognise them, and how to turn your notes into a profile that predicts what you like.
- Cigar wrapper guide: Connecticut, Habano, Maduro, Cameroon and moreThe main cigar wrapper types, the colour scale from Candela to Oscuro, and what each wrapper tends to taste like. A practical guide to choosing a cigar.
- Cigar strength explained: mild to full, with examplesWhat cigar strength really means, how it differs from body and flavor, what makes a cigar strong, and well-known examples from mild to full.