Useful Tool?

[Simon-JG-hr]

I've just been bouncing around on the Berry Bros. & Rudd website (its certainly safer than bouncing around the shop - potential for big bill...) Whilst looking at some of their information style pages I came across this really interesting 'flavour wheel'. Now, it is predominantly aimed at wine tasting, but many of the flavours which cigars remind us of are much the same as for wines (and they're all on the wheel anyway...)

Source: http://www.bbr.com/wine-knowledge/faq-flavourwheel

I do hope that I never come across 'petrol' in a cigar - flames and petrol aren't two things I'd normally think worked in close proximity...

[Big_T_UK]

Flames and petrol do not mix, are you KIDDING ME? I remember a time when I was visiting Paris briefly and I came across a group of French army veterans. Petrol was cheap at the time and the opportunity was there........oh hang on.....private conversation maybe. LOL

[Lee Nub]

Used something like that before on a wine course i did.

[HabanoSy]

Nice find Simon...

Very useful...

Cheers, HabanoSy

[SeanP]

Yep, can do without the 'petrol' too...but wouldn't mind getting the 'Bacon' Make it a mild stick, that way it will go well with coffee in the morning

[EugeneSax]

I thought this was going to be about Wayne Rooney.

[Robusto]

That wheel of flavours is fascinating.
Thanks for posting it, Simon.

[Smallclub]

There are much better wheels, more suited to cigars?

The "fruity" section of that wheel is almost meaningless for cigars?

Will post other wheel(s) later?

[Pipe Dude]

The "fruity" section of that wheel is almost meaningless for cigars?

Never had an ERDM Choix Supreme?

[Smallclub]

Never had an ERDM Choix Supreme?

If you find flavors of apple, pear, melon, peach, mango, lychee, strawberry, etc. in your Choix Supr?mes you must smoke fakes?

[Smallclub]

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[Smallclub]

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[EugeneSax]

If you find flavors of apple, pear, melon, peach, mango, lychee, strawberry, etc. in your Choix Supr?mes you must smoke fakes?

I think I've detected slight notes of apricot/peach/mango - maybe not in CC's but NC's such as Davidoff & other lighter Dominicans. I definitely think slight blackcurrant tones are part of the Ramon Allones flavour profile - first noted with the RE Celestiales Finos being closely linked with woody/cedar/pencil shavings notes, as in a decent Medoc (less noticeable with RASS, but there in RASCC).

[Daize]

Thanks for the wheels guys ! very much appreciated

[cj121]

Nice thread guys.

I was waiting to get back on the PC to throw in the wheel I had, but Smallclub's is the same one, but bigger (she cried)


It's comforting to note that 'spicy' is in fact 'spicy'...phew