Curious about your rolling preferences for preferred blends,before Michigan applied a (large ) tax to internet processed tobacco purchases, I was a fan of JR maduro (i forget which one now) but have not been able to replicate it to my satisfaction, al tho I find everything I've rolled up to now pleasurable I'm still looking for that over the top stick.
How do you roll?
- Thread starter jackpine
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I personally just got started and just have the one kit so far from WLT but I’ve tried rolling different ring gauges and using different amounts of seco and viso fillers to achieve different flavor profiles and while I see myself ordering this blend again I don’t ever see myself sticking to just one blend even when I find that one that’s over the top. There’s just too many great tasting possibilities out there to settle on one imo. Variety is the spice of life!
I tend to pick out a nice wrapper, and a functional binder, then rummage through my various varieties of leaf for a reasonable ratio of seco/viso/ligero to make a medium-strength cigar. In 15 years of random blending of cigars, I have yet to feel the urge to duplicate any of them. I love the discovery of the process.
Bob
Bob
WillQuantrill
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My very limited success in blending can really be attributed to paying close attention to the leaf stats in the commercial cigars I smoke. I suppose some might say this is "developing a palette" but to me it doesn't have anything to do with refined terms of flavor notes but more like picking up attributes of each leaf variety then discerning what attributes each priming has. If I'm setting out to find a new blend I like I only roll 4 to test, after that I will have an idea what to change for the next 4 that I will share with others then tweak from there. I have never rolled a first test 4 that were immediately deserving to roll in bulk. On the contrary I have rolled a few first test blends that sucked so bad that the recipe got scrapped. But every time I learn alot in the failure.
adamziegler
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I have 2-3 "go to blends" that I try to keep a few of in the humidor, and some new experiments ever month or so.