Wine & Tobacco, what is your favorite paring?
Londy3
Master
in The Lounge
This can be an ongoing topic since there are so many wine and tobacco blends. I happen to come across many by accident that I really enjoyed while burning a bowl. This one in particular is a Malbec wine of Argentina. This is an old vine style, hand harvested with great aromas of plum, violets and vanilla. This pared with Wild Hare is a wonderful combination. Wild Hare is a combo of light and dark Cavendish with burly and hints of vanilla. Wonderful room note and great flavor paired with this red wine. I really enjoy this on the front porch in the evenings.
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Give me 50/50 mixture of Apple Cider Vinegar and bottle water and I'm happy.
Hey, wait a minute: vinegar and water and generally cheerful.....
Freudians would have a picnic with that.
Drank a lot of that in graduate school.
Wanna tipple? Drink Pink Ripple......
@ghostsofpompeii -- I want to try your beverage: how much apple cider vinegar in how much water?
I enjoy the way Burley pairs with red wines especially Merlot and (the popular it seems) Malbec.
My Grandfather had a giant industrial wine press in his basement and the family made their own wine from those nice purple grapes my Grandfather used to get by the boxcar load. I'm not exaggerating. They would go down to the train yard and have trucks pick-up an entire box car load of grapes, then return home and fill the garage with crates of grapes. I was just a kid but my uncles would let me ride along in the back of one of the trucks and I'd end up eating so many grapes I'd get the sh*ts. So the only kind of wine I actually like is the grape wine. Nothing fancy or too sweet. Sadly I haven't found anything that taste as good as my Grandfather's wine.
Funny Story: My Grandfather would send me to the basement to get him a glass of wine right out of the barrel. One day when I went down to the basement where he kept the wine barrels (most were upright - but there would always be one turned sideways with a spigot from which I'd get his glass of wine). And on this one occasion there were two barrel setting sideways on a rack side-by-side (both with a spigot), so I got the wine from the closest barrel. Wen I gave him the glass he simply held it up to the light and asked me if I was trying to poison him. Apparently one barrel contained the wine while the other had vinegar. I inadvertently poured the vinegar. I had no idea they were also making vinegar from the grapes. My Grandfather turned to my Mother and said, "he's a good boy - he no drinka da wine" " - because had I taken a sip before bringing it up to him I would have been choking all the way back upstairs. So back I went for another glass - this time the right stuff. And from then on I always did "drinka da wine" before bringing him a glass.
"Perique bites my tongue."
And by the way: Neither true nor false.
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<< Red wine is really a wonderful accompaniment particularly the Bordeaux’s – to be more specific: Pinot Noir I find is almost ideal. Whatever country it comes as long as it is not old sailor red quality. Now, a generally underappreciated companion to a pipe is Champagne. I mean Champagne not Prosecco, that in Italy is drunk like beer with jugs on the table. Prosecco shares as much similarities to Champagne as Burley does to Latakia.>>