Siesta, what a concept! You bustle about your morning hours looking forward to the languid respite that is siesta. In the cool of the courtyard the leaves of the banana plants clacking in rhythm with the buzzing bees. The breeze comes up to waft the smoke from your cigar to the heavens. So what cigar…
When in April and the showers and drafts of March are forgotten the roots and buds are bathed in such sweet liqueur. The small fowls make melody as folks long for the links and decks of small craft and back yards. Then good pilgrims sojourn to Spirits to select the tawny weed choice and celebrate…
I enjoy cigars of many shapes and sizes. For the fun of it I often consider time of day, season of the year, what my libation of choice will be, the company I’ll keep, the location involved, when I’ll eat, the color of my shirt, the pattern of my socks, my belt size and whether…
Greetings and salutations my friends and High-Ho for the New Year! I’ve got four great new smokes to accommodate you in your indolence this Winter. Like faithful companions to accompany you on your sojourn of the mind to the land of peace, psychic rest and self indulgence. A tawny land of Art Deco shapes and…
Here’s a midsummer tip to prime you for the Autumn nights to come: Those evenings when the heat of the day isn’t still wearing on you like a fur coat you neglected to take off and a cool breeze scatters the elegant smoke rings you blow. That time of year when you can reclaim your…
Greetings Jazz fans! Oops, wrong gig. Oh well… Let’s see where this takes us… I have collected, enjoyed and played (on the radio- Jazz music) for over fifty years (RE: Jugs, Jukes and Jazz 8pm-10pm Sunday nights on WUAL 91.5). I have nurtured a deep personal relationship with the music of Mingus, Coltrane, Ellington and…
At the height of British Rule in India, colonial soldiers began to make their own cigars from the local tobacco. The British military held the mountain fighters, known as Gurkhas, in high regard as fierce and loyal. The fondness of the British for these legendary Nepalese fighters inspired them to name these cigars “Gurkhas.” The…
Can’t you just picture it? Dark and red and plush, ripe with the smells of whiskey, perfume and smoke. Ice-tinking women laughing and the sound of a tenor sax in from of a small combo in the corner. Men with loosened Windsors, analog watches with leather bands and cigars held by fingers with manicured nails….
A recent tip from yours truly highlighted the Perdomo Fresco. Allow me to expand on this line of great cigars available at Spirits Lakeside in Tuscaloosa. Tobacco grown for these outstanding cigars comes primarily from the fertile Nicaraguan valleys of Esteli, Condega and Jalapa. With the addition of fine corojo, connecticutt and maduro wrappers the…
For centuries gentleman have retired to the library or drawing room for post-prandial cigars and full-bodied libations. Why are these three activities so beautifully taken in concert with one another? Obviously as we eat and drink the palate is excited, enthused, and accepting. So why not treat yourself one more time? In times past a…