Catador

A Catador (Plural: Catadores) is a Cigar taster/tester in Cuba.

As part of their quality control, cigar factories employ a team to test a random selection of each Torcedor's (Cigar roller) production, so every week the work of each torcedor will have been blind tested.

A Catador will only smoke a small portion of each cigar, and will score each cigar on a scale From Poor to Excellent on the following:


 * Appearance and construction
 * Aroma
 * Burn
 * Draw
 * Consistency
 * Strength
 * Flavour
 * Quality

In any single session, they will test between 3 and 5 cigars and only drink unsweetened black tea between each cigar tested. The majority of the tests take place in mornings only.