Peppery / Spicey taste

[Hopduro]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't much of the pepper taste in a cigar's blend stem from the ligeros in the filler?

Yup, what these guys have said, usually region dependent for spicy/pepper.

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[Cigar Tom]

I second that.

 

[Nacho Daddy]

Is it typical to get a slightly spicy or peppery taste when you get down to the last third of the cigar?

I'm assuming this has nothing to do with the blend of the tobacco because it seems to happen regardless of which cigar Im smoking.

Is it simply because all of the tobacco in the head of the cigar has picked up flavors from the smoke that has been drawn through the cigar for the last 30 - 45 minutes?

this, and you may be smoking too fast, and the tars are building up.
by any chance are you using a punch?

 

[The720]

this, and you may be smoking too fast, and the tars are building up.
by any chance are you using a punch?

No, I've been using a guilotine type cutter.

I'm starting to think that what tastes like pepper to me is simply bitterness caused by smoking too fast.