We invite you, the reader, to ask questions. You can do it in the comments, on Facebook or Twitter or you can email us for our weekly segment: Ask halfwheel. Each Friday we tackle one of those questions and I’m back this week to answer a question from Jake, who wants to know what the rating formula is like: For instance, do you have a sheet where you jot down every aspect from 1-10 and add them up? Or is it more or less just the number that pops into your head when your done? How strict is it? In 2015 we implemented a new way of rating cigars on halfwheel. It was based on how we were evaluating cigars previously, but there were tweaks made for three main purposes: Ensure consistency across all reviewers. — Prior to this, certain things like “how many points does a cigar lose for an uneven burn” weren’t being handled consistently across our every review. Reward cigars with flawless construction and (fairly) penalize those without it — The reality is most cigars we review have pretty good construction. That being said, some don’t and we felt it was necessary to make sure that if two cigars performed ...
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