I’ll be attending The Great Whisky Smoke tonight – a satellite event for the Hop Scotch Festival which includes an afternoon of cigars, catered food, and Glenmorangie scotch, followed by an evening in the grand tasting hall where a large variety of exhibitors await.  While I assumed that the 10 tasting tokens accompanying my ticket would allow me to taste 10 different whiskies in the tasting hall, I just finished going through the festival website and this is definitely not the case.  In fact, if I decide to sample Johnnie …

After starting cigar production in Cuba in 1916, the Toraño family had accumulated 17 tobacco farms by the Cuban revolution in 1959.  At this time they fled Cuba, eventually settling production in multiple countries, specifically Nicaragua and Honduras.  I have had mixed experiences with Toraño cigars, with some of the other blends being a bit of a disappointment.  Because people talk so well of them, I though I’d give Toraño cigars another shot with a Signature Collection Perfecto.  Since its creation in 2000, the medium-bodied Signature Collection has been quite …