Agreements
The taste qualities of food and drink interact with each other and can distort the perception of tastes and flavours.
For example, if you drink wine X with a sweet dessert, the wine may seem too acidic. On the other hand, if you drink the same wine X with a salad accompanied by an acid sauce, it may seem too sweet and lacking in structure - even though it's the same wine.
In a cigar and drink or cigar and food pairing, we should therefore ask ourselves how the properties of the cigar complement, reinforce or neutralise the food/drink. The right pairing is achieved when the cigar's effect on the palate is persistent and 'magnifies' the pairing, and when the two products are in balance.
