May be a dumb question, but I gotta ask

[wayner123]

I notice a difference, sometimes a vast one, between a cigar of the same line but a different shape. And it has to do with wrapper:filler ratio.

Originally Posted by forgop

I guess I've just never developed my palate in such a way that I can detect all of the perceived flavors when they use words like nuts, earthy, grassy, chocolate, etc. I obviously know whether I like the flavors or not, but that's about it.

Don't sweat not being able to describe the tastes you are experiencing. This is presently being studied further but the information below may provide some insight as to why you can't describe flavors:

Finally, Small and her colleagues present strong evidence that the final common pathways of taste and smell go to the non-verbal right brain, which has implications for our ability to report thinking processes related to taste and smell; one of the reasons Titchener - and Wundt before him - only reported four tastes was probably that they had difficulty getting people to talk about taste and smell.