Moki's THANK YOU Blind Test
Overall Results
High Score: 8
Low Score: 2
Average score: 6.5
Correct (or close enough)age guesses: 5 of 10
Correct country of origin guesses: 7 of 10
Correct Cuban vs non-Cuban guesses: 9 of 10
Completely correct guesses: 1 of 10
***And since Andrew also correctly guessed the Litto Small Batch #2 missing only the age, I have am amending his score for full-tilt correct guesses to: 2 of 10.
Interesting facts:
- Andrew rated four cigars as an 8 and 3 of those were Cuban.
- Andrew's lowest rated cigar was a C.A. rated top 10 of 2007.
- Looking at his overall results, he would have ended up somewhere in the middle of the pack in the taste test he administered to us.
- Lastly, I would say that Andrew proved his own arguments about taste being subjective. Not that I expected anything different but he praised some cigars I dislike, panned some I do like and, just like the rest of us, gave his purely personal reasons as to why. All this does is get us back to what many have been saying all along:
TASTE IS SUBJECTIVE SO LIKE WHAT YOU SMOKE AND SMOKE WHAT YOU LIKE.
Here is a list of all of the contributors. Please note that not everyone in the test was involved as some had already made previous thank you arrangements with Dr. Moki by the time we all got off our lazy asses and got this thing together.
Cigar #1 - Sinnyc – 2007 Illusione cg:4
Cigar #2 - B.B.S. – 2002 Bolivar Royal Corona
Cigar #3 - Tone-NY – 2003 Punch Ninfa
Cigar #4 - Brickhouse – 2007 Litto Gomez Small Batch #2
Cigar #5 - sinnyc – 2000 Quintero Panatela (Machine rolled, in cello)
Cigar #6 - Enerjay – 2007 Avo LE 07
Cigar #7 - Insight – 2006 H. Upmann Magnum 46
Cigar #8 - sinnyc – 2007 Cabaiguan Guapo (original vitola, apparently dog-friendly)
Cigar #9 - sinnyc – 1998 Hoyo De Monterrey Double Corona
Cigar #10 - Bfreebern – 1970's Jamaican Dunhill Macanudo
Andrew, thanks for being a good sport and accepting our "thank you with strings attached" with such good grace. And I know I speak for all of us when I again say "Thank you" for taking the time to organize and run the test that we all took. After doing this for just one person, I can imagine how much time you put into it for all 10 of us. I hope you continue to offer these tests as your time allows because they really are a ton of fun both to particpate in and to read. And you sure as hell learn a lot about your own preconceptions, prejudices, and preferences - I know I did.
- Tim