So I’m back with yet another Cuban cigar review. I know it’s been all freaky-sex, all the time around here lately, but the reality is, I don’t smoke many cigars during the winter in Canada. Now that we are firmly into the spring, I can justify stepping out for a good forty-five minute herf without…
Category: Tasting Notes
Tasting Notes: Mad & Noisy India Pale Lager
So this afternoon I happened to be in the hinterlands of southern-Ontario visiting family, and the rolling hills of Simcoe County are known primarily for two resources; christmas-trees(a little too early for that), and craft-beer. If you ever find yourself about the area of the tiny village of Creemore, you absolutely should stop in to…
Tasting Notes: Hoyo De Monterrey Palmas Extra
So I am back with another Cuban cigar post, I can’t seem to help myself, even though I picked this baby up at a local shop and paid an inordinate amount of tax in the process. And though I usually tend toward the value end of the market, this Hoyo is a great budget-minded cigar….
Tasting Notes: Kingsgate Reserve Apera
Although you’ll often see me beer-in-hand at parties, or sipping rye-whisky out of antique cut-crystal glasses at home, those who know me, know that I also have a taste for wine. Most specifically white-wine, but for those times when I feel like something richer and more complex, I reach for a sherry; well, I guess…
Tasting Notes: Romeo y Julieta #2
It is a great and glorious future that we live in. A few weeks ago I made a purchase of fine Cuban cigars via a gray-market international distributor who shall remain nameless. It arrived today and it’s exactly everything I’d hoped it would be. Being a first time clandestine internet cigar buyer I felt I…
Tasting Notes: Nickel Brook Head Stock
As we are faced with unseasonably warm temperatures in the North for this far too brief time I felt that a beer post was in order, being the venerated May 2-4, an obscure backwoods Canadian tradition of drinking beer in honour of Queen Victoria, for the freeing of our people from bondage. It is in…
Tasting Notes: Quintero Brevas
So I recently traveled back to Cuba on a mission to refill my humidor. It was sorely bare, having only a single Cohiba Esplendido(reviewed here) and a couple of Guantanamera Decimos(not even worthy of review) left over from a box of 10 that my father-in-law grabbed me from Cuba back in December…A sad state of affairs…
Tasting Notes: Cohiba Esplendidos
A few weeks back I attended my best friends wedding, through the fog of the end of the festivities I seem to hazily recall that we had reached a point where cigars were being passed out, though I was hardly in any shape to enjoy a fine cigar. Even besotted so, something had looked to…
Tasting Notes: Holsten Festbock
So summer is finally here, and as the temperature in the north begin to creep up to somewhat near pleasant, for those few brief months of warmth each year, and you’d probably develop quite a thirst as you survey the early summer landscape. So today after a pleasure walk to the local ale vendory I…
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