Your tobacco preferences are unique and tailored to your individual taste. Everyone will have their own unique experiences with cigars, and the flavor notes can range from rich chocolatey profiles to spicy and peppery. Much like wine, they can sometimes have more floral flavors with fruity notes. The term “body” is used to describe the total amount of flavor you'll find, and it's divided into mild, medium, and full. Each cigar brand has its own flavor profile with descriptions of its flavor, balance, body, strength, aroma and finish.
Cigars with a larger ring gauge generally contain more filling leaves, which increases their prominence in the flavor profile of the cigar that includes them. The additional volume, as well as the space between each leaf, allow for greater complexity of flavors since the smoke extracted from the cigar seasonates them with each puff. Take your time to smoke the cigar as slow burning will allow the sugars and essential oils in tobacco to caramelize and produce more subtle flavors. Unlike the straight shape of cigarettes or the conical torpedo that straightens after a tip, the Pyramid cigar has a wide foot that tapers continuously along the entire length of the cigar until it reaches a tip at the opposite end. Having a good ashtray is another necessity for the cigar smoker as nobody wants powdered cigarette ash scattered on their clothes and furniture. Hand-rolled cigars are also more likely to have properly spaced filling tobacco, allowing the amount of air to flow through the cigar; machines can roll the filling machine too tight or too loose.
Regardless of the price, packaging, or your size preference, if you don't like the taste of a cigar, you won't want to smoke it. As for cutting Presidente cigars before smoking them, the traditional straight cut, angled cut or perfect cut work well but some of the more experienced cigar enthusiasts prefer the perforated cut which makes a small round hole in the lid rather than cutting it allowing an even higher concentration of smoke and flavor. Finer cigars burn hotter and faster than thicker cigars and longer cigars are milder at first but become more intense in the end. A true Torpedo will have a closed leg and a slight protrusion in the center in addition to the conical tip on the head but many cigars are labeled as Torpedoes despite not meeting those criteria. Binder leaves tend to be much thicker than wrapper sheets and generally have little or no flavor allowing the flavors of the filling mix and wrapper to manifest more fully; however some tobacco blenders use binders as an additional layer to increase complexity of overall flavor of cigar. You can start by enjoying light sweet flavors of Claro or Sumatra wrap leaves and finally move on to aged sweetness of dark or spicy spice of Habano wrapper and that doesn't even cover various aromas of binder leaves and filling leaves used by individual tobacco manufacturers and manufacturers. This is because flavors will evolve depending on different cigars used for filling and way in which they are arranged inside cigar. The binder leaf of a cigar is used to join inner bundles of filling sheets together before leaves of final wrapper are wrapped around outside to complete construction of cigar. Understanding those preferences will help you and your tanker choose other cigars that are better suited to your needs. The first number refers to thinnest part of cigar's diameter and second number refers to thickest part.
