Each issue of Cigar Press features a blind tasting panel made up of cigar shops. If you are a cigar shop that is interested in becoming a panelist, Click HERE and include your name, your shop’s name, address and telephone number.
Please remember, being a panelist requires smoking a lot of cigars in a rather short time period, so please be sure you are ready for the task before inquiring.
Please remember, being a panelist requires smoking a lot of cigars in a rather short time period, so please be sure you are ready for the task before inquiring.
Cigar Shops: To become one of the panelists, simply send an email to:
tastings@cigarpressmag.com
or call
Thor Nielsen,
Editor & Publisher
P: 312.602.2672
F: 323.230.8607
tastings@cigarpressmag.com
or call
Thor Nielsen,
Editor & Publisher
P: 312.602.2672
F: 323.230.8607
PANEL DESCRIPTION
Ratings are subjective and change with the tastes of time. Cigar Presshas instead developed a blind tasting system that is completely unbiased in order to reflect the quality of craftsmanship and tobacco in the cigars themselves. We are not assigning number values, rather detailed descriptions of each cigar. It is up to the reader to decide if the cigar sounds like something that would fit their personal taste.
Cigar shop panelists will be sent a package of cigars, re-banded with Cigar Press tasting panel bands assigned number and size values (e.g. Lancero #1). They smoke the cigars in the stores, allowing their regular customers to participate if they choose. With each cigar, they fill out an evaluation form with detailed notes. The characteristics they focus on are construction, body, flavor, complexity, and overall smoking experience. After each panelist has returned their evaluations to us, we take the results and summarize the characteristics that are common to each of the five panelists’ notes to best describe each cigar. No ratings, no numbers, no judgments are made, that part is left to the individual.
Ratings are subjective and change with the tastes of time. Cigar Presshas instead developed a blind tasting system that is completely unbiased in order to reflect the quality of craftsmanship and tobacco in the cigars themselves. We are not assigning number values, rather detailed descriptions of each cigar. It is up to the reader to decide if the cigar sounds like something that would fit their personal taste.
Cigar shop panelists will be sent a package of cigars, re-banded with Cigar Press tasting panel bands assigned number and size values (e.g. Lancero #1). They smoke the cigars in the stores, allowing their regular customers to participate if they choose. With each cigar, they fill out an evaluation form with detailed notes. The characteristics they focus on are construction, body, flavor, complexity, and overall smoking experience. After each panelist has returned their evaluations to us, we take the results and summarize the characteristics that are common to each of the five panelists’ notes to best describe each cigar. No ratings, no numbers, no judgments are made, that part is left to the individual.
