Hi All; I have been smoking a few years now but just recently began smoking more frequently maybe 4 times a week or so. I was at the local shop the other day watching their nice flat panel and enjoying a Perdomo Champagne when an interesting movie began. The cigar was done but the movie was long so I ran into the humi and grabbed a RP Vintage 99 (white label one). When I first took a sniff of it before lighting I was instantly shocked by the intense flavors I could "smell" When I lit it it only got better I could easily disntiguish flavors and I thought I had found one of my new favorite cigars. The next day I went back for another and this time ehnjoyed it but had no where near the same experience. I was wondering what caused this discrepancy and could not figure it out. Sorry for all the text, but the question is, Was the RP so flavorful because I had just finished a cigar a few minutes eariler that had some how made my mouth more sensitive or had I just gotten two differnt quality cigars in the same box?
If they're from the same box, its unlikely the cigars were so drastically different that you could taste it. I suppose there's variation in any box, so it is possible.
It is also likely that the second cigar tasted different because of the first one. If you have a cigar after anything else (food, wine, other cigars), the flavour you get is going to be an interplay of the previous taste and the current cigar.
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Had you eaten recently before smoking the second? I know more about wines than gars right now, but the same rules apply to tasting.
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I had not eaten a thing just went staight after work. I think you are right about the taste being altered by the previous cigar. It might be the tastes were different that I more easily noticed the new ones.