The whole idea of this site is to provide the reader a consensus on a cigar from multiple experienced reviewers who have no idea what they are smoking. Often, people have preconceived notions about cigars, whether good or bad, based on brand name or vitola. Sometimes people get stuck in the habit of only smoking certain brands they know they like, or are afraid to try new ones. The hope is this blog will broaden the reader’s horizons and possibly help them gain appreciation for cigars they would have written off or not tried otherwise. There may also be surprises the other way, we may review a cigar that most people think is synonymous with greatness only to find it’s overrated in the opinion of our review panel.
To achieve these reviews, we remove the manufacturer’s band and replace it with a plain white, numbered band, and then ship them the cigars off to our panelists. After smoking the cigar, each reviewer completes and submits a form which includes a scoring system, and room for notes. We then compile the numbers using all that statistics stuff we learned in high school that we thought we’d never use like standard deviation, and outliers. This generates the total average score for each category and a final weighted total score. We then pick out trends and consistent things we see about the cigar in the reviewer notes and add that to the review.
Rating Scale
99-100 = Epic
96-98 = Extraordinary
94-95 = Excellent
92-93 = Great
90-91 = Very Good
88-89 = Good
84-87 = Fair
82-83 = Subpar
79-81 = Mediocre
75-79 = Poor
70-74 = Bad
below 70 = unsmokable
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