La Aurora 107 Nicaragua Training Kit

La Aurora 107 Nicaragua Training Kit teaches you to recognise and identify different notes and aromas in cigar smoke.

Different flavours

Professional cigar tasters taste a variety of different flavours and aromas when enjoying a cigar. Many people think this is nonsense and that tobacco simply tastes like tobacco. But if that were true, what would be the difference between different cigars? Why do you favour one particular cigar more than another? Because not all cigars taste the same and because the small subtleties and nuances make the difference. Being able to recognise these subtleties and nuances is a matter of practice.

La Aurora cigars

La Aurora, a cigar factory from the Dominican Republic, is launching the world's first training set to help aficionados develop and refine their sensory skills. The set contains a box with four "Pure grade" cigars in Corona format. "Pure grade", also known as "Perritos", are cigars made from a single type of tobacco and allow professionals to test the quality of the leaves and the fermentation phase. In addition, they can build on this basic flavour and decide which tobaccos they want to add to the final blend. These four "Pure grade" single cigars are the four individual components of the finished composition of the La Aurora 107 Nicaragua, which is also included in this set.

Barber Pole cigar

A very special highlight of this box is the "Barber Pole" cigar. This cigar is a multi-wrapper cigar. It contains different wrappers on different parts of the cigar, six in total. The wrapper leaf in particular reveals differences in the flavour of a cigar. Light this cigar and taste the differences and the development of the various flavours over the course of the smoke.

Expert tip

If you really want to recognise all the nuances in a cigar, let the smoke pass through your nose. The nose recognises many aromas and flavours that the palate misses