All cigars deserve to be smoked at least twice. If you smoked a specific cigar once and it tasted bad, there could be many things that could have caused it to taste bad for example. What you ate, drank, how you slept, did you smoke early in the day or in the evening can have a big impact.
Adjust a cigar according to the day
Sometimes it can be good to adjust the cigar according to how the day has been.
If you slept well and feel alert, the food was where it was supposed to be and you don’t have to rush out, a full-bodied cigar can sit nicely if you like them. The taste buds want to go on an adventure and experience lots of flavors.
Do you feel tired and the sleep was bad and you are generally tired, the food was disastrous. A cigar with a light body and mild flavors be an alternative if you like them. The taste buds just might not be able to keep up.
Adapting the cigar according to the day is a good option sometimes.
I still remember one cigar that I put down before the first third was over. It was a box pressed robusto cigar with Oscuro wrapper and full body. The taste was so bad that I never intended to smoke another one. It tasted straight of burnt wood and peppery in a way that was not at all appealing. I have a book I write in all the cigars I’ve smoked and if it’s worth smoking again. It ended up at the bottom of my list. Time passed and a few months later when i ordered some cigars by pure chance a similar cigar ended up in my humidor. – How did I manage to order that cigar? My thougts went. I had probably just forgotten about that cigar for the moment and put it in the shopping cart. I kept it and thought to give the cigar to someone else who might appreciate it. Time passed and the cigar remained in the humidor. One evening when two of my brothers-in-law and I were going to sit down and have a cigar, i thought about giving one of them the black box pressed cigar, but I decided to give the cigar a second chance. I was surprised and almost didn’t think it was the same cigar. It had fruity notes, chocolate, coffee, sweetness and a slight spiciness that I liked. It was one of the best cigars I’ve smoked in a long time. That was a few years ago and since then I give every cigar at least two chances if it tasted bad at the moment. It showed that it doesn’t have to be the cigar that doesn’t fit, but how a person’s day was.
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