Taste descriptions !!!!!!

[AsetOne]

Ok time to add my (bear with me haha)
IMO developing your palatte and being able to define certain flavours in a cigar is something that comes only with time (cliched i know) your palatte is ALWAYS developing, and you will ALWAYS be learning new tastes.

The more smokes you try, the more you will be able to taste the differences between them.

I think as long as you can define whether or not you
a. like the smoke
b. like the smoke, but not enough to buy it again
c. do not like it

then you are well on your way.

Some good tips have been posted already by other guys on here, especially, modulating your exhale through your nose, and exhaling again through your nose after you have finished blowing out the smoke.

In many smokes i have tried i have not been able to describe the flavour straight away, but then a few seconds later it hits me, 'Almonds!'

Eating different foods, Drinking different alcohols, coffees etc also help greatly here IMO, question, if you like to drink scotch, what do you taste when you drink, say macallan, besides scotch?
Some scotches are 'sharp (read: pronounced)' in their flavour characteristics, some are 'smooth (read: Subtle)' this has nothing to do with the amount of 'burn' you get from the liquor. i find some cigars are also this way.

I also find fuller bodied smokes easier to discern flavours over milder cigars, though i am sure many gorillas would be willing to dispute that point, but again that is just me.

I hope this makes sense, and maybe (and its a big maybe) even helps some.

James

[D. Generate]

The more cigars I smoke, the better at tasting them I become.

One thing that can help is trying to identify aromas/flavours in actuality. Raid your wife's spices; smell them and taste a pinch of each.