Cigar Sense Podcast

Have you ever struggled to name the flavors that you perceive when smoking a cigar? Or have you ever wondered if it's the cigar or if it's you to be off? Have you ever met friends who could not agree…

Why are Cuban Cohiba's now more expensive than ever?

In this episode we discuss:

• the causes of supply disruptions
• the causes of demand increase
• the response of most cigar producers
• the Habanos new p…

Top cigars lists time seems to have ended for the season, but there are many excellent cigars that haven't been recognized.

In this episode we discuss:

• How can more of the excellent cigars be recogn…

•  What is ChatGPT?
• Challenges
• Opportunities for the cigar industry
• Test: what are the flavors of cigar X?
• Test: personalized cigar recommendations
• Garbage in, garbage out?
• Google, will it detect AI c…

Cigar Sense launched a “Product Excellence Award” program, to provide recognition to those premium cigars producers that consistently meet high standards in terms of draw, burn, production consistenc…

Is it good to remain a cigar beginner forever?

In the cigar industry, knowledge is almost entirely transferred verbally and this generates a lot of opportunities for misconceptions and errors. Additi…

Our members asked us to talk more about brands history, in addition to cigar tasting related topics. Therefore, in this episode, we are sharing a few facts about the history of the Perdomo brand: fro…

Our members asked us to talk more about brands history, in addition to cigar tasting related topics. Therefore, in this episode, we are sharing a few facts about the history of the Partagás brand: fr…

We discuss the cigar consumer in Greater China with Eric Piras.

Eric Piras has an incredible experience of over 25 years in the cigar industry. He is based in Hong Kong, where he manages his import-e…

Blind tests or open tests? Are blind tests worth the effort? People have all sorts of opinions about this because there are different purposes for doing tests.

Purposes for blind test…

We recently spoke about how unique is our taste with Aniello Buonincontro, who wrote the book, “Degustazione Razionale”, which means rational tasting. He researched anthropology, sociology, neuroscie…

We regularly get questions from our followers and also members about the technology we use at Cigar Sense.

David Wells, vice-president, co-founder and technologist at Cigar Sense, explains how Cigar …

The Cigar Sense panel is a key instrument that allows consumers to know what a cigar actually delivers to the senses. On top of to consumers, the trained sensory panel work is dedicated to anyone who…

Is more cigar choice better? Today we have a plethora of choices of premium cigars. We discuss what are the possible motivations for people to choose from many cigars or from less and identify one so…

If you had an idea of what your unique personal taste is about, after listening to this episode you may look at some things differently.

Aniello Buonincontro wrote a book, "Degustazione Razionale", w…

We all have our individual needs and values. Often so many of them are combined together. Even if it might not be a priority for us to consider premium cigars as luxury products, at least consciously…

The history of the Dunhill Cuban cigars was presented at the III International Symposium "Habana/Habanos"2009, an event gathering historians, museum workers, researchers of different branches, journa…

Many doubts, reactions, engagements and questions indicate the interest that the cigar industry is showing in sensory analysis. We welcome them all.

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This episode is based on our article Sensory analysis, a misunderstood discipline. Franca explains some key factors that drive misconceptions when it is about sensory analysis:

• it deals with subject…