[kuzi16]

i agree with the above post. people that, in general, pay attention to taste, flavor, smells etc. do a better job of identifying flavors in cigars. learning to cook helps because you have to be able to understand the flavors you are mixing together to get them to taste right in the food you are making.

when someone has that base understanding of flavor, they can taste these elements in cigars and other complex things such as beer, scotch, rum.

i have always tried to develop my palate not just by smoking cigars, but by trying to understand flavors in a general sense with a focus on things that are common in cigars.

i actively seek out and taste/smell things like coffee, earth, leather, coco, etc. it helps.