Just read something interesting on another forum I frequent:
"While I was in my smoking-alot-of-cubans phase, I noticed a particular taste that stood out that I really enjoyed but I couldn't exactly place it. After several weeks it hit me. It reminded me of the oral-anesthetic Anbesol. I know this sounds crazy, but I looked into it and found that Anbesol is Phenol based and Phenols are found in Cigar Tobacco. It seems, to me at least, that some Cuban leaf has a higher proportion of Phenols than alot of non-cuban leaf. But there are non-Cubans that I've found that have that same phenol punch or twang that I think some people are referring to. I find Oliva cigars to be consistently similar in flavor to those twangy cubans(Bolivar/Partagas), particularly the V Series and Cains which are both Nicaraguan Puros.
......if you consider many of the blind ratings out there, you will see that a Nicaraguan Puro will often outshine a Cuban."
I'm not trying to denegrate Cubans in any way - I prefer them (generally).
"While I was in my smoking-alot-of-cubans phase, I noticed a particular taste that stood out that I really enjoyed but I couldn't exactly place it. After several weeks it hit me. It reminded me of the oral-anesthetic Anbesol. I know this sounds crazy, but I looked into it and found that Anbesol is Phenol based and Phenols are found in Cigar Tobacco. It seems, to me at least, that some Cuban leaf has a higher proportion of Phenols than alot of non-cuban leaf. But there are non-Cubans that I've found that have that same phenol punch or twang that I think some people are referring to. I find Oliva cigars to be consistently similar in flavor to those twangy cubans(Bolivar/Partagas), particularly the V Series and Cains which are both Nicaraguan Puros.
I'm not trying to denegrate Cubans in any way - I prefer them (generally).
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