I can't beleive It's not Cuban...

[awsmith4]

Originally Posted by Coz77

Ive had this only work the other way around... I was smoking a Jose L. Piedra Cazadores and swore it tasted just like an AVO maduro

The first RyJ Cazador I smoked tasted like a La Riqueza with slightly less pepper

[karmaz00]

pinar del rio habano SG....maybe

[BigAsh]

Originally Posted by skullnrose

If you had to pick one NC cigar that you think would fool you If you were trying to decide if it was Cuban or not what would it be? For me it would be the cabaiguan Coronas Extra.

cool....I got a fiver on the way

I've had some Habanos Torres sticks that have come very close and some Habanos Torres that blow any CC I've had out of the water. I once had a RP 1992 that reminded me of a Bolivar, some twang in it.

[wayner123]

Originally Posted by skullnrose

If you had to pick one NC cigar that you think would fool you If you were trying to decide if it was Cuban or not what would it be? For me it would be the cabaiguan Coronas Extra.

Are you talking about looks or taste?? Or both?

[skullnrose]

Originally Posted by wayner123

Are you talking about looks or taste?? Or both?

Both

[SeanGAR]

Nothing comes to mind.

My cabaiguan BFs don't seem cuban in taste to me, although they are very nice cigars and do look Cuban. Tats ... well, never had one even close. Been confused in blind tastings before of course ... but I know of no NC that I smoke and say "damn, this tastes & looks Cuban".

[bobarian]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Nothing comes to mind.

My cabaiguan BFs don't seem cuban in taste to me, although they are very nice cigars and do look Cuban. Tats ... well, never had one even close. Been confused in blind tastings before of course ... but I know of no NC that I smoke and say "damn, this tastes Cuban".

Been fooled twice in blind tastings. Once by a Montecristo Platinum and second by a Pepin blend, Vegas Cubana, I think. Occasionally a puff or two of an NC will have a bit of the "twang" but it never lasts the entire stick.

[MNSmoker]

The last two Tat Noellas I had I would have guessed cuban in a blind taste test.

[wayner123]

Originally Posted by wayner123

Are you talking about looks or taste?? Or both?

Originally Posted by skullnrose

Both

As far as looks, IMO there aren't many NC's that could fool you. First off they would need to have a triple cap. Not all Cubans have triple caps, but the vast majority do.

So that narrows the field down considerably for NC's. Pepin and a couple others are really the only ones using the triple cap. To me most of the Pepin blends are darker than most Cuban wrappers. So that again limits the field. Then you get into sizes, which again limits it. So you are left with a small number of smokes that may look similar to Cuban but do not taste like them.

If looks are not important, then the field is wide open. I think you will get a wide variety of answers on what taste 'Cuban' to someone. I have done a good number of blind taste tests and I have been fooled badly on ocassion.

The only cigars that fooled me on taste alone are a RyJ Reserva Real and the Fundacion Ancestral Pinar del Rio 1941.

With the RyJ Reserva Real I swore it had to be Cuban because it had a strength of flavor that I didn't think many NC's had. And with the Fundacion Ancestral Pinar del Rio 1941, it had a nice grassy taste which I associated with aged Cohiba's.

[yourchoice]

My response was based on taste alone, regardless of the looks.

Originally Posted by wayner123

I have done a good number of blind taste tests and I have been fooled badly on ocassion.

Blind taste tests can play tricks on you, no doubt. But when you light up a cigar, with the band on knowing exactly what it is and think it tastes "Cubanesque" then you have a real find (assuming you like Cubanesque ).

[wayner123]

Originally Posted by yourchoice

My response was based on taste alone, regardless of the looks.
Blind taste tests can play tricks on you, no doubt. But when you light up a cigar, with the band on knowing exactly what it is and think it tastes "Cubanesque" then you have a real find (assuming you like Cubanesque ).

Well that's just the thing about Blind testing. If a group of people told you that so and so cigar tastes like a Cuban, and you went out and bought one with that pre-notion in your mind, it could sway you to think the same. Or at the very least give you pre-concieved ideas about it's taste. Where as with blind testing, there is no pre-concieved ideas on how it is going to taste. (unless, of course, you throughly examine them)

[yourchoice]

Originally Posted by wayner123

Well that's just the thing about Blind testing. If a group of people told you that so and so cigar tastes like a Cuban, and you went out and bought one with that pre-notion in your mind, it could sway you to think the same. Or at the very least give you pre-concieved ideas about it's taste. Where as with blind testing, there is no pre-concieved ideas on how it is going to taste. (unless, of course, you throughly examine them)

Understood and agreed. But when doing a blind test, someone may want something to be something that it's not and fool themselves into thinking it is what it isn't. (Does that sentence make sense? ) The mind can be a very complex thing!

[South Shield]

La Riqueza

[Jay Hemingway]

tatuaje noellas

[SmokinApe]

DPG's original release Little Havana Overruns PC from Holts.com were by far the most cc nc for me...

Taboo's were a close second...

[Clampdown]

Originally Posted by SmokinApe

Taboo's were a close second...