Overview
Group Draws is live for cigar tasting hosts who want the structure of a serious tasting sheet without turning a herf, lounge night, or solo review into paperwork.
Its direction centers on GDAT — the Group Draws Approach to Tasting — with cold-draw capture, construction and burn reads, flavor across the first, second, and final thirds, optional blind mode, guess-the-cigar fields, live aggregate dashboards, and polished notes that can flow back to The Registry.
- Hosts add cigars, share a code or QR, and watch notes arrive as tasters work through the flight.
- GDAT captures cold draw, construction, burn, flavor across thirds, retrohale, and final impressions.
- Blind mode, rankings, polished notes, and Registry handoffs turn a cigar night into a lasting record.
Built for
Hosts and tasters running cigar flights, herfs, blind tastings, club nights, or private solo cigar notes.
The goal is to make cigar tasting easier to host, easier to join, and easier to remember, while keeping Group Draws aligned with Group Pours and The Registry as one broader tasting ecosystem.
What matters most
- host-led cigar flights with one or more cigars, optional blind mode, and live session control
- join-by-code and QR workflows that let tasters move straight into the GDAT sheet from a phone
- structured cigar notes across cold draw, performance, thirds, retrohale, finish, and final impressions
- live flavor clouds, construction reads, rankings, and shareable group recaps
- solo tasting mode for private cigar notes without a share code
- AI-polished tasting notes for individual tasters and group recaps
- Registry handoff support so saved humidor cigars can enter a tasting and notes can return to the collector record
A cigar sibling to Group Pours
Group Draws follows the same tasting-system philosophy as Group Pours, but the workflow is cigar-specific: cold draw, construction, burn, flavor across the thirds, retrohale, final impressions, and optional guess-the-cigar play for blind flights.
- Hosts can run a room from a phone with share codes or QR joins
- Tasters can join a group flight or capture private solo notes
- Collector accounts can connect Group Draws notes back to The Registry humidor record