Back on topic PG...at least until Joe's next post. When I took classes to learn how to judge wine they taught me how to break things down into the primary flavor components: mostly sweetness and acidity. It's the balance between these two forces that separates the bad from the good. Then beyond that there is fruit, astringency (from the tannin) and oak. These things separate the good from the very good. Then the next layer contains things like apple, citrus, leather, butter, tar, earth and so on. These are the things that separate the very good from the sublime. Do you see what's happening here? There is a narrowing down, a focusing of the focus.
In cigars, I'm much less experienced but the same sort of process applies. At the top level there is body (full, medium or mild). Next is the interplay between things like sweetness, spice, nuttiness and wood. At the deepest level there are specific flavors if you can tweeze them out of the rest. Or more accurately: if you can open yourself to them and let them identify themselves to you.
In addition, as you know, cigars (good ones) evolve as you smoke them. (Wines do this too, but unless they are very old they do it to a lesser extent.) The cigar you finish may not bear any resemblance to the one you started. Many Fuentes (esp. the sun growns) go through 3 distinct phases. Or maybe the cigar stays the same throughout and it's us that change. Or perhaps seeing The Matrix Reloaded four times in a row is too many.
CP members would be kind enough to share there expertise in this area so that we the un-learned can benefit. It would be greatly appreciated. 
