Are you tasting what you think you are?

[Snake Hips]

Originally Posted by Tashaz

There is video around of an interview with Jorge Padron. In it he states "Spice is never something I have contributed to a good cigar" or something to that effect. Padron's history is in cuba. There is not a lot of cuban cigars that have "spice" as talked about commonly. Spice can be read two ways as the OP said, pepper or tannin. There is not much else IMHO, unless you work for CA magazine, then you might have a south gautamalian red coffee spice!. LOL.

I disagree. I find I taste lots of spice in cigars, and most of the time it is neither pepper nor tannin. I often taste white pepper, red pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc. Black pepper is the "pepper" taste to me, and I hate it most of the time. And no, I don't find it a lot in Habanos. But I do encounter many spicy Habanos that aren't tannic.