How It All Began

When I look back, I realized that cigars have always been apart of my life.  My father, a K-8 grade school principal would lit up a Roi Tan blunt each morning on his way to work.  He never smoked in the house, but smelling that cigar was my daddy's smell.  It was in his clothes.  In his car.  And while Roi Tan blunts are not the most sophisticated of cigars, the nostalgia of it has always stayed with me.  How my father would hold it in his mouth.  The holes in his shirt from the ashes that my mother would cursed about.  Even the children at his school nicknamed him "Cigar". 

As I got older, I dabbled a bit tobacco.  Cigarellos, Darjums, Black and Milds.  At first, I thought that is was cute, you know, men think that a woman smoking a cigar is sexy.  But once I truly began to focus on the art of cigars, I was transformed.  

Cigars for me bring peace in the midst of a storm.  A cigar cannot be rushed.  It forces you to be in the moment and present with it until you puff the last puff or put the ash out.  Smoking a cigar is dynamic.  The puff in the beginning is different than the one in the middle and the one at the end.  And paired with the right libation, a cigar is simply, well, orgasmic.  And while a woman smoking a cigar is sexy, it is only the accessory, the perfect pair of pearls to that classic black dress that is the cigar.

I will tell you now that I consider my self a novice.  I'm still figuring out the language, shapes and tobaccos and origins and all that good stuff.  But I know what I like and I'm discovering more and more sticks that bring me joy.

This small experiment is my own market research.  I'm starting with a label that I have enjoyed, Perdomo, and I am taking 30 days to try it with a different cocktail or liquor everyday. And I'm sharing it all here with you.  

The stick that I chose is the Perdomo Maduro Petit Corono 4 3/4 x 44.  I chose it one, because so far for me Perdomo's are classic and consistent, I've never had a bad smoke from any of the cigars I've had. And two, the price was right.  $4.40 a stick for this brand, I think, was damned good.

As so it begins.  Today is my control day, no drinks with the Perdomo.  I'll be savoring the flavor.