Sorry, I didn't greet everyone. Evening all y'all. I wanted to let you know about a nice cigar dinner my blind CiL Gene invited me to Thursday evening. He has a group of 4-5 guys that meet to herf on Tuesday evenings on his deck for adult beverages & fine smokes. One of them (most lawyers) has a country club membership which hosted the event. Members were allowed to invite guests which is how riff raff like me got through the door of the sumptuous club house onto the white canopy covered patio. Walking out, the bar was setup to the right with some excellent bourbons, scotches, rye, etc. Beer available also. After getting your drink, next was the cigar table where the regional Davidoff rep or local B&M sponsor would toast your Camacho Ecuadoran Habano (blue label). While we are mingling, puffing, sipping waitstaff are bringing about finger food (see how I shied away from having to spell Horse Devors?), including real fresh fried shrimp (not some frozen mush). Then, first course of Crab Imperial is served (this is just north of Baltimore, so this is the real stuff), then chopped salad, steak dinner (salmon for me), wine, dessert table (didn't hit that until my way out). After the main course, a cigar bag with two new cigars & plastic cutter were brought to the tables by the two reps with a brief description of the second & third cigars with some encouragement to light up #2 with some port, coffee or more scotch. The Johnny Walker Black 12 year was tasting remarkably good, so I went with that. Second cigar was an AVO TA Maduro (only available at 75 B&Ms nationally), #3 was a Room
101 The Big Payback. Camacho was excellent beyond my expectations, so was the AVO. It was one of those evenings, great weather, beautiful views of the golf course, and good company with interesting and witty guys. Some of them buy from CI, while also supporting the B&M & a couple have been to CFest in the past.
