7 year aged burnt Madagascar vanilla...

[krevo81]

can I ask where this came from? Did someone doing a review actually list that as something they tasted while smoking a certain cigar?

[Prozac_Puros]

I bet if you go find a left handed smoke shifter, someone on here might just tell you.

[pnoon]

http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showpos...91&postcount=8

[krevo81]

Okay. That seriously cracks me up every time I hear it... thanks for the info.

[Will_S]

Check out cs on the wayback machine from 2001

http://web.archive.org/web/200105152...lubstogie.com/

[jcarlton]

That is great

[tazziedevil]

You mean you can't taste it in your cigars?

[jcarlton]

Originally Posted by tazziedevil

You mean you can't taste it in your cigars?

Nope, the closest I have ever come to this is hints of cow dung and 57 Chevy exhaust.

[dccraft]

I've tasted the essence of my old baseball mitt!

[Andyman]

It is basically a slam on CA - Can't remember if that was a shanken review or not but.. Thats what it is mocking.

[viesturs]

The "hints of roasted meat" comments kinda make me wonder too. Shanken uses this term quite a bit.You have to ask? What kind of roasted meat? Lamb, Pork, Beef???

[Andyman]

Originally Posted by viesturs

The "hints of roasted meat" comments kinda make me wonder too. Shanken uses this term quite a bit.You have to ask? What kind of roasted meat? Lamb, Pork, Beef???

How bout pencil lead and iodine?? I think the man is crazy!!

[Will_S]

Originally Posted by viesturs

The "hints of roasted meat" comments kinda make me wonder too. Shanken uses this term quite a bit.You have to ask? What kind of roasted meat? Lamb, Pork, Beef???

I smoke seconds so I taste fried baloney.

[Pyro]

Originally Posted by Andyman

How bout pencil lead and iodine?? I think the man is crazy!!

I do not know much about Marvin Shanken's way of describing cigars but why should anyone be ridiculed just because he uses somewhat unusual terms when it comes to describing certain parts of the taste and aroma?

Both pencil lead and iodine have very charcteristic smells (or odour in the case of iodine) and if that is what a reviewer experiences as parts of total experience, why not use those terms?

I have no idea if "Madagaskar Vanilla" is something that actually exists or not but I often find the vanilla flavour component in Cuban cigars a little burnt or harsh compared to the aroma of pure vanilline. Does this mean that Club Stogie is nothing for me?

[Footbag]

If you were to have little cups of black pepper, leather, cocoa, coffee beans, cedar shavings, pencil shavings, straw, grass, cherries, cinnamon, and yes your 7 year aged burnt Madagascar vanilla; and compare the hints of flavor that you experience, you would probably be surprised.
I'm surprised that more cigar tastings aren't done that way. It's a very good way to distinguish notes in wine. I love trying to pick notes out of cigars.

BTW I'm not quite convinced that the vanilla was aged in Madagascar, Grown there yes, but a lack of bite typical of a high humidity area leads me to believe that it was aged in Nigeria.