What does the colour of a cigar say about its flavour?
Not a great deal. People are inclined to think that dark cigars are cigars with a strong flavour. This is not necessarily so. Brazilian cigars, for instance, are very dark; but they have a pleasantly sweet flavour which is greatly appreciated by some smokers. A cigar with a Sumatra wrapper is light in colour, but has a spicy flavour. The final taste of a cigar is determined by the interplay of wrapper leaf, binder leaf and inner leaves. So the colour alone doesn’t say everything.
