How to distinguish fresh cigars
Fresh cigar body, lightly rubbed without sound. Before lighting a cigar, put it to your ear and rub it gently with your index finger and thumb. If you can't hear any cracking sound, this is a new cigar.
Knowledge of lighting cigars
Make your own fire and use ordinary matches (the longer the better). After lighting the match, wait a few seconds for the sulfur to dissipate, then bake the cigar body on the flame constantly and regularly, and then light the cigar head evenly. Cigar butts should not directly contact cigars.
Why do you light cigars with matches?
Cigars are tobacco leaves, combined with hand-made masterpieces, which will give off the natural aroma of tobacco leaves after lighting. So don't use fuel that will affect the aroma of cigars, like lighters that use gasoline, because lighters that use gasoline have a chemical smell. Of course, butane lighters and cigar lighters have their own advantages. The use of waxed matches will also affect the aroma of cigars when they are lit. Special matches, the sulfur of matches has been specially treated, and it has the aroma of cedar when lit, which is a good choice.
Matches or special lighters that are most commonly used to light cigars.
Specially made long wooden matches, usually called cigar matches, are twice as long as ordinary matches, made of wood and burn slowly. Cigar matches can be bought in cigar shops or smoking sets shops. These matches are all famous brands, such as David Duff and Dan Hill. Or some high-end hotels have long matches with the hotel logo on them, but they may not be sold. Ordinary matches will do.
Cedar chips are used. In many Cuban high-end cigar boxes, cedar chips equivalent to the size of the box are attached to the top. The smell of cedar sawdust can blend with the smell of cigars. Keep the taste of cigars long. You can tear cedars into strips, light them with ordinary matches, and then use them to light cigars. Use a cigarette lighter. The fuel of this lighter is butane instead of gasoline. The fire is stable and will not emit chemical odor when burning.
Blazer torch, namely flamethrower, is a fashionable product, and its fuel is butane, including desktop, pen and portable. Desktop flamethrowers are similar to vertical pistols. Before use, turn on the safety switch, and then press the button like a trigger, which will give off a flame. Its flame will be concentrated and will not go out. Just release the button when you turn it off. Both pen and portable are cylinders, and the switch can be turned.
The correct way to smoke cigars
Only to the mouth, not like smoking to the lungs. Smoking cigars is a kind of enjoyment, so you can't smoke wildly, lest cigars burn too fast or too hot. Take one sip at a time regularly and enjoy it slowly. Don't turn a cigar into a fireball. Cigars can only give full play to their fragrance if they remain stable. There is no shame in smoking an endless cigar once and then smoking it again.
Mild cigars, especially those with light eggplant skin, will lose their fragrance once they are stored for a long time. Therefore, you usually smoke light cigars first, and then enjoy dark cigars. Mature eggplant clothes look greasy at first, and will become smoother and darker when they mature.
People who have just tasted cigars, it is best to choose small cigars such as Minuto or Carolina first, and then smoke cigars with mild and rough taste, such as H.Upmann exported from Havana. Most people prefer mild mini cigars after a light meal in the morning or at noon.
The ash at the end of a cigar helps to cool the cigar.
Experts don't pop off the cigarette ash at the end of cigars, because a certain length of cigarette ash helps cigars cool down. In addition, they don't spit hard, just spit it out gently and let the smoke surround them. Everyone can smell the fragrance coming.
Cigars are enjoyed in different ways and occasions from cigarettes.
After dinner, it's a pleasure to have a good Armagnac (French brandy Randy Jais) or a single highland malt whisky (Gremai Scottish single highland malt whisky), light a cigar, take a sip, put it in your mouth and spit it out slowly.
Generally speaking, before choosing a cigar, you should check whether the eggplant skin is intact, whether it gives off a healthy luster, whether it is too dry and fragile, which makes the cigar taste rough and pungent, and whether it gives off a strong aroma. (If not, it may indicate improper storage. A good cigar should be neither too hard nor too soft. If the lines of eggplant clothes are too prominent, it means that there is something wrong with the quality control of the tobacco factory and it is not suitable for buying. The blending of tomato juice is the main factor affecting cigar flavor. According to experience, the darker the cigar is, the stronger it is, and the sweeter it may taste, because the dark eggplant skin has higher sugar content. Well-preserved cigars will continue to mature and ferment in cedar boxes. In the process of ripening, the acidity of cigars will be less and less, and rich cigars, especially those that are thick and fat, will ripen better.
When buying a boxed hand-rolled cigar, the first thing to ask is to open the box and have a look. This is a basic requirement. After opening, first check whether the colors of cigars in the box are consistent. If the colors of cigars are too different, you'd better not buy them. Because if the difference between light color and dark color is too big, the taste will definitely be too big. Light brown tobacco leaves make cigars spicy, black tobacco leaves add sweetness to cigars, and others are somewhere in between. A box of 25 cigars will have the same color, but each box may have a different color.
Then pick up the cigar and squeeze it gently with your thumb and forefinger. If there is noise, it means it is too dry. If the cigar is properly stored, the pressed position should slowly return to its original shape. A truly fresh and well-preserved cigar can be restored even if the sides of the cigar are pressed deeper.
In addition, it is best to buy cigars in original boxes. If you are not sure whether cigar dealers are fair, it is best to avoid buying so-called "gift packages" (including different brands and sizes) provided by cigar dealers themselves.
In the international market, hand-rolled Cuban cigars sold in Spain may be the cheapest in the world. Other major cigar consuming countries such as the United States, Britain, France, Germany, etc. Due to import taxes, the price of Cuban cigars is more than one third higher on average (it is illegal to buy and sell Cuban cigars in the United States). Of course, the price of cigars in each place depends largely on the popularity of local cigars. For example, cigars in Hong Kong are about 1/3 more expensive than those in Spain, and cigars in Canada are about 2-3 times more expensive than those in Spain. In addition, many cigars on the American market are not products of Cuba, the cigar kingdom, and most of them are exported from the Dominican Republic.
[Six points to distinguish good cigars from bad cigars]
1, a good cigar should be a hand-made whole leaf rolled cigar.
There are two kinds of full-leaf rolled cigars: one is hand-rolled full-leaf rolled cigars, which have obvious external ribs, and the appearance and thickness of each cigarette are quite different; The other is the machine-rolled full-leaf cigar, which has a smooth appearance, uniform thickness and thin outer sheath, and is generally more neat and beautiful than the full-hand-rolled cigar. However, good cigars can't be rolled by machine, and good cigars can't be polluted by hundreds of production processes. The smell and oil stains produced by machinery have great influence on the aroma, taste and aftertaste of cigars. In addition, any machine can't replace the feeling of human hands, and it can't handle the range that should be adjusted because of the change of cigarette core and inner and outer foreskin.
2. The core of a good cigar is the combination of flaky tobacco leaves.
All high-quality hand-made cigars must have a flaky core. If the tobacco core is cut into shreds by machinery, the fiber structure and chemical composition of tobacco leaves will change greatly, reducing the original quality of tobacco leaves. Therefore, the cigarette cores of fine cigars are all made by hand. Tear tobacco leaves into 8- 15mm leaves.
3, the taste is not bitter, not a cigar
The taste of a good cigar is bitter with sweet, bitter first and then sweet, just right, which makes people can't tell whether it is bitter or sweet. Just like a person drinking coffee, he enjoys a rich aroma and a sweet and delicious taste from his bitterness. The bitterness and sweetness of a good cigar are combined in its mellow and full aroma and lasting and comfortable aftertaste.
A good cigar will go out automatically if you don't smoke it.
The cigarette flamed out in the burning process and was judged as unqualified. Good cigars are just the opposite. If you don't smoke, it won't burn. It will stop smoking in a few seconds, then turn off the fire in three to five minutes, and it must be rekindled when you smoke again. This is because superior cigars can't be added with any combustion improver in the production process, and tobacco leaves can't be puffed. In addition, the price of first-class cigars is tens or even hundreds of yuan, so it is a pity to burn them like cigarettes.
5. Good cigars don't produce phlegm after smoking.
A good cigar does not produce phlegm after smoking, but also has the function of relieving cough and resolving phlegm. So cigar smokers often don't spit everywhere, because they have nothing to spit. Good cigar tobacco leaves are not allowed to be planted with chemical fertilizers. Before rolling, tobacco leaves must undergo long-term accumulation and fermentation to remove odor and raw smoke smell. In the process of spontaneous combustion and alcoholization, harmful components are continuously decomposed, and tobacco leaves become elastic and mellow. In addition, the burning temperature of good cigars is lower than that of cigarettes 100 degrees, generally around 700-750 degrees, and the sugar content is also lower than that of other tobacco leaves, so the harmful components in smoke are far lower than those of other cigarettes.
6. A good cigar has a mellow aroma and no peculiar smell.
Excellent cigars can't absorb any artificial aroma and strange smell in the smoking process, and only pure natural tobacco leaves can produce the mellow and full aroma of cigars. This is because it is forbidden to use any chemical additives in the whole process from planting tobacco leaves to rolling cigars, and even the adhesive needed for rolling must use pure natural plants. So when you smoke a cigar, you can suck out artificial aroma and strange smell. That cigar is not a good cigar.