Spicey VS Peppery

Jdorais

So I've been trying to figure out the difference between a spicy cigar and peppery one. Are they interchangeable meanings or completely different? Can someone enlighten me?

Jeff

Renaissance_Man

For me peppery has always been the meaty/peppery flavor i get from a well peppered angus steak ... Spicy is really just spicy - u feel the hotness in ur mouth kind of... Like a hot pepper... Peppery flavor u would feel on ur tongue... A little tingle... MMMMMMMM

jeff_connors

that what she said.. but other than that I totally agree. Pepper for me is a flavor ,some cigars have a pepper taste spicy is a sensation.

j0z3r

I've never thought "spicy" was a desirable quality in a cigar, to me it implies harshness which I feel is the mark of an immature cigar. Pepper, on the other hand, can be oh so delicious and is something I look for in cigars.

clearlysuspect

You're probably right that spicey equals harshness. I kinda like that in a cigar though. I don't particularly have sophisticated taste though. I tend to like very bold and spicey flavors. I've always like my coffee black, my tea without sugar, my whiskey straight, and my cigars strong and spicey! As I search around though I'm finding I like some milder cigars as well. I think I'm gonna be easy to please in this love affair with cigars which will probably be greatly appreciated by my wallet.

kuzi16

clearlysuspect

kuzi16:

to me harsh is very different. i dont "taste" harsh. i feel it in my mouth.

That makes sense!

j0z3r

kuzi16:

to me harsh is very different. i dont "taste" harsh. i feel it in my mouth.

And that goes back to what was said about spicy being a sensation. If you are talking about spicy as one particular taste and I am referring to the sensation of spiciness, then we're talking about two different things, albeit two similar things with some similar wordage. Now if we hold that to be true, then I still correlate the sensation of spicy to harshness and I don't think I'm way off base with that one.

betasynn

I think of spice as two different things. You can have a specific spice; like say, black pepper, paprika, or something like that, or a very mixed, muddled spice; sort of like a spice market. I've had both (for instance, a DPG Cuban Classic is Black Pepper; a Camacho 8/22 might have the spice market taste.)

kuzi16

Luko

My palate is unrefined. I use peppery and spicy interchangably and to me, they mean the same thing. To me, DPG cuban classic is one of my favorite examples of what I would call a peppery/spicy cigar.

Renaissance_Man

Luko:

My palate is unrefined. I use peppery and spicy interchangably and to me, they mean the same thing. To me, DPG cuban classic is one of my favorite examples of what I would call a peppery/spicy cigar.

Agreed.. I would add meaty to that one... I know Beta would say - tastes like a nicely peppered steak...

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