Analysis of Sensory Characteristics on Aroma and Preference for the Great Wall Cigar and Tea Drink Combination based on Check-All-That-Apply
Cigar has unique flavor characteristics and the aroma characteristic as a principal factor has an influence on cigar smoking for consumers.With the improvement of living standards and capacity upgrade of tasting on cigar smoking,cigar smoking is commonly appeared in catering scene paired with alcohol,tea and so on.The aroma sensory characteristics were analyzed when smoking Great Wall cigars with tea based on Check-All-That-Apply and Nine-point preference.As a result,the aroma sensory characteristics of six kinds of cigars when matched with different kinds of tea were changed,which was compared with smoking cigars only.The aroma characteristics among different combinations could be preferably distinguished.As was shown by result of nine-point preference,high scores were got when smoking with black tea or dark tea,while scored lower with yellow tea and oolong tea.The sensory evaluation experiment was comprehensively carried out to identify the aroma characteristics when smoking with different kinds of tea and insight into the different combination acceptance of consumers,which is helpful to promote accurate research or development and marketing promotion of cigar products.