Creating a cigar rating system

[Gunson]

I’m fooling around with making a cigar rating system. I need suggestions for categories to rate. So far I have: taste, construction, burn, appearance, body, cold draw, draw, 1st third, 2nd third, finish, complexity, balance and smoke production. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[mpomario]

I’m fooling around with making a cigar rating system. I need suggestions for categories to rate. So far I have: taste, construction, burn, appearance, body, cold draw, draw, 1st third, 2nd third, finish, complexity, balance and smoke production. Any help would be appreciated.

Would it be possible to include one of those flavor wheels that we could mark up and post along with ratings.


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[MyFathersKeeper]

This might be the most subjective part of a review, but maybe value...?

Otherwise, that’s pretty damn comprehensive.

 

[Jay_Habanos]

How about value? Retail price factored into the mix. Box worthy? Etc


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[Boudie]

Sometimes I think there should be a way to rate the rater. At least identify what they enjoy smoking. Once you get beyond the physical aspects (construction, burn, tightness etc) taste and value are pretty subjective. There are reviewers that I follow because we seem to have similar tastes. I have friends that if they like a cigar I'll avoid it, simply because our tastes are so different.

Value is also subjective. A very limited cigar budget vs an unlimited cigar budget causes a big difference in perceived value. A personal profile of what a reviewer enjoys and what flavors he avoids as well as who is paying for the review, is information I find helpful in understanding his rating system. Other then that a flavor wheel and construction information is about all I can consider helpful.

 

[Scraper]

I’m fooling around with making a cigar rating system. I need suggestions for categories to rate. So far I have: taste, construction, burn, appearance, body, cold draw, draw, 1st third, 2nd third, finish, complexity, balance and smoke production. Any help would be appreciated.

Possibly add nic hit? I think at least in the pipe world, this gets confused with strength. I'd rather think of strength as how strong of a taste or snork. And possibly a negative aspect/rating such as harshness or bitterness? And also maybe a field for age or time in humidor before being smoked.

 

[SurfnSafari]

Mine is simple. Four Catagories. Can earn 0 - 2.5 points is best.

Construction.

Burn

Ash quality.

Taste to me.

1 - 10 Scale. Had a few 8's, only one 9. Had many 5's (will not buy again), lots of 6's a few 7's.

 

[navyvet]

I like these types of graphs for reviews and for a multitude of situations with many variables because it condenses information very well. Many things we as individuals think may be important isnt important to others. This way they can quickly choose what they think is important and how it did in that specific subject center of the circle is 0 outside of the circle is 10 or 100

 

[BenS]

This might be the most subjective part of a review, but maybe value...?

Otherwise, that’s pretty damn comprehensive.

How about value? Retail price factored into the mix. Box worthy? Etc


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Value is also subjective. A very limited cigar budget vs an unlimited cigar budget causes a big difference in perceived value. A personal profile of what a reviewer enjoys and what flavors he avoids as well as who is paying for the review, is information I find helpful in understanding his rating system. Other then that a flavor wheel and construction information is about all I can consider helpful.

How about value?

 

[aaron72]

I’m fooling around with making a cigar rating system. I need suggestions for categories to rate. So far I have: taste, construction, burn, appearance, body, cold draw, draw, 1st third, 2nd third, finish, complexity, balance and smoke production. Any help would be appreciated.

Everything I'm about to share is just my opinion, so please just take it as that. I don't let any of the categories that can't dictate a cigar being good or bad to play into the scoring. Things like appearance, body and cold draw don't really matter. For me, a cigar can be ugly as hell, but if it tastes and smokes well it should be rated as such. If the cold draw just has very faint flavors, should that hurt the cigar if once you put fire to it, it tastes great? And could a cigar with low body still taste good? And then look at the flip side, if you have cigars that have really great ratings at those categories but it tastes and smokes like crap, you're just inflating the rating with those other things.

I also don't tie value into the rating. I just think that the cigar should be scored for what it is and then someone else can make a determination on the value. Or you setup a secondary rating that takes value into account.

If you add too many variables into the mix, you cause the people looking at the score to have to determine too much about the reviewer to find out their tendencies and preferences in order to make sense out of the rating.

 

[navyvet]

He has good points

 

[Gunson]

Everything I'm about to share is just my opinion, so please just take it as that. I don't let any of the categories that can't dictate a cigar being good or bad to play into the scoring. Things like appearance, body and cold draw don't really matter. For me, a cigar can be ugly as hell, but if it tastes and smokes well it should be rated as such. If the cold draw just has very faint flavors, should that hurt the cigar if once you put fire to it, it tastes great? And could a cigar with low body still taste good? And then look at the flip side, if you have cigars that have really great ratings at those categories but it tastes and smokes like crap, you're just inflating the rating with those other things.

I also don't tie value into the rating. I just think that the cigar should be scored for what it is and then someone else can make a determination on the value. Or you setup a secondary rating that takes value into account.

If you add too many variables into the mix, you cause the people looking at the score to have to determine too much about the reviewer to find out their tendencies and preferences in order to make sense out of the rating.

I figured that people may have different feeling about the categories which is why I plan on adding a weight system which could be configured by the user depending on their preferences.

To address value I plan on using dollar per point for value.

 

[aaron72]

I figured that people may have different feeling about the categories which is why I plan on adding a weight system which could be configured by the user depending on their preferences.

To address value I plan on using dollar per point for value.

Yeah, we use a cost/point calculation as well.

 

[Gunson]

Yeah, we use a cost/point calculation as well.

Is this Developing Palates Aaron?

 

[mpomario]

I really like the weighting system. That way you can customize as to what is important to you. That’s value.


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[aaron72]

Is this Developing Palates Aaron?

Yes

 

[Coincrazed]

Nicotine hit would be very great in an overall rating. Particularly to warn newer smokers not ready for that kick a lot of the fuller bodied smokes have.

 

[BenS]

Really, if a rating system could tell me if I would like a particular cigar....