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Cigars In a Nutshell - A Taste of Integrity Part 3 Cigar Size
Cigars In a Nutshell - A Taste of Integrity Part 3 Cigar Size When one works as a salesperson in the Gourmet Department of a retail business, you have to become knowledgeable in wines, beers, spirits, foods and cigars. My first exposure to the cigar section was a little frightening. Here I was in charge of an area of a gourmet product that I knew nothing about. I knew people smoked cigars and seemed to get some pleasure from the smoking. They must have gotten something from these cigars to pay the high prices some of the cigars could bring. I realized after reconsidering my experiences that I did know a little about tobacco. My parents had smoked. When I lived on the farm in northern Florida, we had grown tobacco. Let me say here tobacco is nasty stuff. When you crop the leaves from the tobacco plant you get this sticky gum-like tobacco juice all over you. We always grew tomatoes along side of the tobacco fields. The green tomatoes helped remove this tobacco gum from your skin. Cropping tobacco is a dirty, hot, tiring job. Up at 4 o'clock in the morning to beat the heat of the day. Into the fields where you get dew soaked and chilled to bone doing back breaking, labor intense, mind dulling labor. When the last leaf is cropped, it off to the barn to tie the leaves to wooden sticks to hang in the barn to be curred. After baking the tobacco to the right color, it's time to unstring the leaves and pack them in bales to take to the market. At the market the tobacco is graded and sold. That's what I knew about tobacco. I have never smoked and never will. But from the cropping, curring, and stacking the leaves you become aware of the different aromas of the different tobacco leaves, curring processes, and grades of tobacco. With this basic information and research I was able to discus, inform and sell the cigar customer, without ever having smoked. In Cigars In a Nutshell - A Taste of Integrity Part 2 Cigar Shapes the Spanish word "vitola" which describes both shape and size was covered. Here the "vitola" part of size will be covered. Cigars are sized by gauge or ring size to measure the diameter of a cigar in America. All cigars in America are measured inches for their length and in inches straight across the cigar's diameter. One gauge or ring is 1/64 of an inch. Gauges of cigars are usually from 30 gauge to 50 gauge. In Europe and elsewhere cigars are measured by millimeters for length and also millimeters straight across the diameter of the cigar's body. The cigar gauge for the smoker is probably one of the most important features that can be measured in deterring which cigar to purchase and smoke. Gauge and length definitely have an influence on how a cigar will smoke and taste. The greater the length the stronger the smoke and the larger the gauge the greater the taste and the amount of tobacco that one will smoke. If you find a cigar that you really like, but find it to be too intense then try the same cigar in a smaller gauge. If you want more of the same taste just increase the gauge size to the amount of taste you enjoy. A true cigar connoisseur the gauge is more important than the length. But, length doesn't necessarily indicate how long the cigar will smoke. Smoke time actually depends on the amount of tobacco in the cigar. Length is a good indication, but sometimes a shorter cigar can smoke just as long if not longer than its longer brother. Smoke the size that best meet your taste. Some extermination of different gauges and length may be needed to fine the taste you like. Smoke the cigar that gives you the right amount of smoke and smoke time for you. You can see, cigars have personalities. Because taste is subjective, it is important that a cigar smoker not necessarily rely on someone else's rating system. Use rating systems as a staring guide but develop you own rating system. A rating system may be an excellent starting point for a new smoker. But each smoker has a different perception of a cigar's flavor based on the smoker's mood, what has been eaten or drunk before or during the smoke. These will affect the perception of the same type of cigar differently each time. This is one reason why it is desirable to have different cigars for different occasions and for different times of the day to smoke. A light smoke during the midday, a full bodied robuso after dinner or even a slightly sweeter smoke after dessert may be your personal preference. But for many smokers, it may be the leisurely smoked cigar in the evening at the end of a busy day that is the most memorable. A cigar's flavor is not dictated by only the tobaccos with which the cigar is made, but the smokers perception as well. In Cigars In a Nutshell - A Taste of Integrity Part 4 we will get into Tasting the Cigar. Happy Health and Happiness Share with me at: The MUSEUM at Zazzle
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