cuban tobacco aroma and flavor discussion

[driftinmark]

I have been doing a lot of reading about cuban tobacco, while I do not smoke cigars, the study is completely fascinating!!....

what causes this flavor and aroma, no one knows as of yet, the leaf can and is grown in different parts of the world, but it never tastes or smells the same......this dude named Suchsland did have a theory about certain microbes in cuba, I think he might have been on to something....

some links for reading....

http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/IND43968481/PDF

http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/IND43969933/PDF

http://books.google.com/books?id=Fl...RIAL FERMENTATION THEORY OF SUCHSLAND&f=false

http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/t/43827-tobacco-leaves-by-w-a-brennan?start=21



this guy named Lowe claimed to disprove this theory , and a few others, but one thing that i noticed is that while they used the same leaf ,havana 142, it was grown elsewhere in the world, the studies they used the leaves they grew were from florida and Wisconsin....

if the microbes are only in cuba, then they would not be in leaf grown in florida and wherever.....could these microbes be airborne?
also of note is the petuning of tobacco, could this produce more of a microbial action kind of like an infusion?

 

[johnlee1933]

Interesting reading and good questions.

John

 

[deluxestogie]

To my knowledge, the only commercial cigars that still petune their leaf (soak it in a liquid brew of "proprietary" ingredients) is Royal Jamaica, which always has--to my palate--a weedy, "green" taste. Soil and climate conditions always affect the final leaf taste and aroma of any varietal, but in subtle ways. I sampled some of JBD's Vuelta Abajo leaf (grown in Maryland) that was only color-cured, and it rang some Havana bells in my brain. The remainder is presently in my kiln, to see how close it gets.

Bob

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Dam Bob, you just shamed me in to putting some Vuelto Abajo into my kiln. I had to remove some Karabaglar to do it though
Randy B