Category: Tasting

• Lorenzo Pipe and La Colombe Coffee in Japanese Porcelain

  

  Sila Blume

  August 10, 2019

  Pipe, Tasting, Tobacco, Vintage

  Briar, China, Coffee, Hand Made, Japanese, Lorenzo, pipe, Tobacco

• Another pairing with Brockmans Gin – Apple, Strawberry on Leaves

  

  I find myself in the midst of mental and physical investigations, leading towards the first activities of the New York Palate League. Pairing after pairing is not about going wild with pairings and testing the wildest allowed, not about looking for the most daring combination. The goal is to expand the horizon, learn to appreciate…

  Sila Blume

  March 20, 2016

  Cigar Pairing, Smokers, Tasting, Tobacco

  Apple Juice, Blind Man’s Bluff, botl, Brockmans Gin, Caldwell Cigars, Cigar Aficionado, Cigar Culture, cigar pairing, Cigar Porn, cigar society, Cigars, Gin, Red Jacket Apple Juice with Strawberries, smoker, sotl, Tobacco

• Nuttiness, gentle spiciness of a Connecticut wrapper and the dark nutty notes of Pumpkin seeds

  

  I have often experienced that pairing happens in the mind before one takes it to the palate. I thought about it. The physically tasting was clearly rewarded. This wonderful new cigar from the house of Padrón – Dámaso, goes wonderfully with a lightly salted avocado and the unique profile of the Austro-Hungarian specialty – the…

  Sila Blume

  February 10, 2016

  Cigar Pairing, Cigars, Tasting, Tobacco

  Avocado, botl, Cigars, Dámaso, Padrón, Pairing, Pumkin seed oil, sotl, Tobacco

• On the importance of Comparative Tasting

  

  Each day greatly succumbed to the experience of tasting is how I live. Not each minute is spent on an analytical mode. The mere joy of it is common, but I have developed a deep appreciation for what humans individually and culturally have access to, as I have come to gather that the availability of…

  Sila Blume

  January 5, 2016

  Cigar Inn – New York, NY, Cigars, Tasting, Tobacco

  Comparative Tasting, Mar Azul, palate, Reposado, Tasting, Tequila, The Fifty Best