As part of our coverage of the IPCPR 2018 trade show, we wanted to bring in some other cigar media members, along with our expanded team here at Developing Palates, to have a discussion about the event and surrounding topics.
The IPCPR 2018 trade show is over and I wanted to do a write-up on my thoughts from the show.
In light of a recent review from another cigar media brand and the response from a brand stakeholder, I thought I would share our thoughts on cigar reviews and how much weight should be given to them.
We talk with other top cigar media sites about the 2017 cigar year and also have them complete this years fantasy cigar shopping spree.
We wanted to do an exercise where we took a set budget for a year and do a shopping spree of the cigars that were released in 2017.
These lists are meant to represent the cigars with the best value (bang for the buck), not the best low cost cigars.
Take a look at our individual cigar of the year lists which consist of new cigars released in the calendar year of 2017.
As a follow up to our article reporting the data on how various media outlets utilize the 100 point scoring system for cigar reviews, I wanted to post a follow up article with my opinions on how the system is used and a few related thoughts.
We took to the numbers to find out how various media outlets utilize the 100 point scoring system for cigar reviews in regards to their average scores, most frequent scores and other trends. The ratings are used a bit differently between them and this shows a bit of a comparison as to the differences.
The IPCPR 2017 trade show is over and I wanted to do a write-up on my thoughts from the show.