As you noted, everyone's palette is unique and therefore two enthusiasts smoking the same cigar may have very different experiences not unlike food and wine tasting.

My personal preference is a full-flavored cigar that offers a smooth, balanced complexity and multiple taste nuances. Davidoff provides this very experience throughout their entire product line from the Classic to the Mille Series', from the Grand Cru to the Aniversario Series', and the Special Series to the Millennium Blend Series.

The Classic No. 2 is very flavorful and what many would consider "mild" by definition while our Aniversario No. 3 and Millennium Blend Toro are considered Davidoff's fullest-bodied offerings. Our world-renown Master Blender, Henke Kelner, strives to create blends that are smooth, complex and balanced–engaging all the sensory areas of both taste and smell–with a range in body to delight every palette.

I'm conscious of pairing my cigars depending on a number of factors including time of day, whether it's my only cigar of the day or the first of 2 or 3, my beverage of choice at the time or the meal that I will or have enjoyed. Of course, the parameters are different for everyone–part of the beauty of cigar smoking!

The premium product lines from the House of Davidoff include: Davidoff, the annual Davidoff Limited Edition, Zino Classic, Griffins, Winston Churchill, Zino Platinum and Avo.

Here's to enjoying the good life!

Best regards,

Danielle Hawthorne

Brand Manager- Davidoff/Zino Classic

Davidoff of Geneva

"Body" is, roughly speaking, the intensity with which the cigar's flavor presents itself. It is a level of amplitude, so to speak. For instance, if I were to mix one part orange juice and one part water in Glass A, and one part orange juice with two parts water in Glass B, both Glass A and Glass B would have the same flavor (that of orange juice). But Glass A would have a stronger "body" than Glass B.

But that's an example in which all things, other than intensity of flavor, are equal. When comparing cigars, we must keep in mind that not all things are equal. Different cigars have very different flavors, and different cigars have very different bodies.

Flavor can and should be one of many determinants of quality when judging a cigar. Body, however, is not; it is simply a measure of intensity and not of quality.

"Strength" is another word that most of us use interchangeably with "body," and I'll confess to having done so many times on this site and elsewhere. Technically speaking, however, strength and body are not the same thing. Strength is supposed to refer only to the potency and level of nicotine in a cigar's tobacco. Ninety-nine percent of the time, full-bodied cigars are also stronger than milder cigars, but this is not by necessity the case.