La Aurora Training Kit

With the La Aurora Training Kit, you’ll learn to recognise and identify a wide variety of notes and flavours in cigar smoke.

Different flavours

Professional cigar tasters detect a multitude of different flavours and aromas whilst enjoying a cigar. Many people think this is nonsense, and that tobacco simply tastes of tobacco. But if that were true, what would be the difference between different cigars? Why do you prefer one particular cigar over another? Because not all cigars taste the same, and because the subtle differences and nuances make all the difference. Being able to perceive these subtleties and nuances is a matter of practice.

La Aurora Cigars

La Aurora, a cigar manufacturer from the Dominican Republic, is launching the world’s first training set, designed to help aficionados develop and refine their sensory skills. The set contains a box of four ‘Pure grade’ cigars in the Corona format. ‘Pure grade’ cigars, also known as ‘Perritos’, are made from a single variety of tobacco and enable connoisseurs to assess the quality of the leaves and the fermentation process. In addition, they can build on this base flavour and decide which tobaccos to add to the final blend. These four “Pure Grade” individual cigars are the four individual components of the finished Preferidos No. 3 blend from the La Aurora 1903 Edition, which is also included in this set.

Video with instructions

You’ll find the instructions for the set via the following link: Video instructions Alternatively, the video can be found in the image gallery.

Barber Pole cigar

A very special highlight of this box is the “Barber

Pole

” cigar. This is a multi-wrapper cigar. It features different wrappers in different sections of the cigar – six in total. It is the wrapper, in particular, that reveals the differences in a cigar’s flavour. Light this cigar and savour the differences and the development of the various flavours as you smoke it.

Expert tip

If you really want to appreciate all the nuances in a cigar, let the smoke pass through your nose. This is because the nose detects many aromas and flavours that the palate misses