Crowned Heads Four Kicks Sublime Review

Originally Posted by sevans105

Wow, apparently my palate has some refining to do. 40 year old saw mill? Earl grey tea? Nougat? Candied pralines? Roasted red peppers?

I appreciate the review. Time to break out the flavor wheel again I guess.

I use four wheels for my comparisons usually that can all be found on google if you are so inclined.

The Tea Tasting Wheel, a Chocolate Tasting wheel, a Coffee tasting wheel, and finally a Cigar Tasting Wheel. Sometimes, when I find a taste that is hard to describe the specific flavor, I take a puff, close my eyes, and imagine it. If that doesn't jog the memory, I tend to use the wheels to help me classify the type of flavor I am tasting.

Originally Posted by Bad Finger

I use four wheels for my comparisons usually that can all be found on google if you are so inclined.

The Tea Tasting Wheel, a Chocolate Tasting wheel, a Coffee tasting wheel, and finally a Cigar Tasting Wheel. Sometimes, when I find a taste that is hard to describe the specific flavor, I take a puff, close my eyes, and imagine it. If that doesn't jog the memory, I tend to use the wheels to help me classify the type of flavor I am tasting.

Let me give a bit of backstory. My grandfather was a rancher/butcher in the Spokane Valley from 1905 through the 1960's, and when I was old enough I decided to go to Culinary School (after the first dot.com crash of the late 90's). My specialty was as a Saucier (Sauce-eee-ay: The person who makes the sauces in a classic French kitchen) and butcher (still have my great grandfathers scimitars from Solingen, Germany 1890's). We were trained in school to be able to taste a sauce from a tasting spoon and be able to break the taste and aroma down into individual components (similiar to how a dog tastes its food). I seemed to be more adapt to this than most of my peers, and decided to use my palette torwards tasting instead of preparing after I graduated. I started out writing about wines in the Willamette Valley region here in Oregon, doing write ups for the Internationl Pinot Noir Celebration in MacMinnville, Oregon, and a few other wineries that I had friends working at.

For the past three years I've been keeping a journal for my tasting notes, often spanning 5-6 pages each. When I began to run out of space, my wife suggested putting my thoughts online to save paper. A week later when explaining the situation to my buddy who is a cigar reviewer for the Examiner.com, he said he also thought it was a good idea as I have very detailed descriptions of flavors that he thought people would enjoy reading. So in December of 2011, I decided to finally put my money where my mouth is (literally) and start a review site. So far we have had wonderful success I feel, with feedback from every cigar manufacturer we've reviewed so far.

We just hope that the people who like to buy cigars find our write-ups to be honest, detailed, and descriptive. Anything after that is just bonus plume.

[Subvet642]

Great review! I'm gonna have to try one of these.