Well what should we smoke? Well I think we need to hit the Trinidad, if you don't
mind. Beautiful choice the Fundador is is quite special it's
incredibly elegant and refined and I think a perfect reflection of my company
after you, you're too kind yeah it's a beautiful elegant format so may
i prep that for you please you know I haven't spoke to very many Trinidad so this is
could indeed be my first I'm not sure I hope you enjoy that I'm going to use a
guillotine cut for this I've become quite fond of a V cut in recent times
but in this ring gauge at guillotine I think is probably the best a bullet cut
would work as well but we'll go with a guillotine
may I light it for you please we're indoors so we have the luxury of matches
good cigar matches or I think the nicest way to light a cigar but if you're
outside you'll probably need to rely on a jet flame I always get two or three
ready because a good cigar might take two or three matches to light so how do
you light a cigar what is the best the key is to use something that doesn't
create an aroma okay so don't use a zipper paraffin anything else can work
including matches you'll note that I'm bringing the the tip of the flame to the
cigar this is the hottest part of the flame and I'm just toasting it up I'm
getting it going you don't want to scorch the cigar with a really super hot
flame unless you absolutely have to and so initially you're waiting for the
sulfur at the tip of the match to fully burn before you bring it to the cigar
again to avoid contaminating the tobacco within the type of pouring aroma exactly
right that's a very good point even with cigar matches they will have
sulfur of course in you let that burn off the wood of the matches well non
odorous of course Davidoff is careful without and most cigar matches will use
non odorous wood what about cedar cigars I've seen some cedar cigars marketed
before I see two splints and so on yeah yeah cedar is a very harm sympathetic
perhaps material for lighting and storing cigars the aroma doesn't
interfere with the cigar and people do sometimes use old cedar dividers from
cigar boxes to light their cigars perfectly fine
you see I'm blowing on the end mm-hmm and wheel it around the periphery and
not listen or not in the center yet so we'll use the third match to get that up
and running part of the ritual of lighting a cigar
it takes us right back I think to add sort caveman ancestors we all love a
good flame it brings out the the meditative peaceful side of I think our
natures
so as you blow on it you're you know making sure that we're kind of checking
to make sure that the entire cigar is in fact to lit fancies and this is and I
hope the first rule for you will be as enjoyable as it's been for me lighting
it beautiful thank you you're gonna join me right I
will with pleasure I'm not very good at resisting temptation a hazard of the
hazard of profession I suppose tasted fine cigars Kirby you know a lot about my
smoking enjoyment I would love to know what brought you into cigars what was
your first experience is an enjoyment of a cigar oh good question I mean I think
um you know to me it always just kind of went along with you know kind of the
finer gentleman pursuits of an enjoying nice clothing a nice Scotch a nice cigar
you know the more I started smoking you know I think what I enjoy most is the
great conversation that comes along with the good cigar I mean if I'm ever
smoking cigar either I'm doing two of the one of two things either I'm working
or I'm in good company
and so what I love about a cigars it's really I find it more than anything else
is a commitment to time right so if we're gonna light a nice cigar we're
kind of committed to spending some time together and or at least enjoying one's
time and that's one of the reasons I find myself that I prefer some of the
longer formats mm-hmm you know if I'm going to smoke it's gonna be an occasion
you know I don't ever have a quick smoke I think that's absolutely right I think
for all of us cigar smokers we're carving out a piece of our day and bit
of our time this is really our excuse yes and I I don't know if it's the same
for you I do almost all my smoking in good company absolutely very rarely is
it solo no yeah I mean I'd certainly prefer to smoke in good company there's
no question I mean I often say that I never smoked one cigar I smoked two
cigars the cigar I'm smoking and the cigar brought along for a friend you
know it's one of the obligations of being someone that enjoys cigars as much
as we do is really you know the privilege of sharing those with good
friends you know while we're smoking what question I get asked quite often is
what do I do for cigar goes out okay which may well happen in the course of
our smoking my advice is always in the period of smoking no problem you can
relight the cigar easier to relight if you brush the ash off the tip
gently against the edge of the ashtray if you can you keep the ash on the cigar
as long as possible because that keeps it lit okay longer than it would without
the ash but if you must realize no problem beyond a few hours the stale
taste of the cigar can become obstructive and certainly overnight if
you've had a cigar probably not a great idea to to finish it in the morning even
a few hours after it goes out I find that it never smokes the same I
any tips and I've got a friend that says that his father would if he knew that he
had to put a cigar down for a little bit would blow out to force any you know you
need smoke out of the cigar and then he would put it in a in a tube and close it
and it would suffocate this cigar and smother the flame you ever tried that
not for extinguishing but certainly for what's called purging which is
blowing out of the cigar before you stop smoking it I do agree with that wisdom
it seems to push out any of the latent the burnt flavor that you'd get
in the cigar I don't know whether putting it in the tube would make much
difference to how it will taste in an hour to want to try perhaps well his
father swore by if we would often smoke half of a cigar at night and finish it
in the morning but I prefer to finish my cigars I agree with you hence why you
have so many different sizes and shapes you know you really try and pick the
cigar that suits not just what you feel like but the time you have so how does
cigar collectors I mean I'm sure you deal with that a lot of collectors here
how do they approach you know they're collecting I mean do they just develop
an affinity towards one brand like I have in many ways with Bulevar or a
particular format or even a specific cigar or do you have some gentleman that
just enjoy trying a little bit of everything
certainly both I think in the life cycle of a cigar smoker when you first begin
to really enjoy cigars you tend to develop an interest in one particular
cigar above everything else the one that really captures your palate and you
and you you love and what will often happen is
you will end up building up a collection in that particular cigar so it could be
certainly with cuban production age can make a very big difference to the
enjoyment of the cigars so they might search for older examples of that
particular cigar and develop the depth to their collection so that they're
rotating their stock and smoking something with 3 to 5 years of age
versus very very recent production and then normally it will happen you'll get
a little bit of brand and size fatigue you might want to explore across the
same size but into a different blend or you might just I've had enough I want to
go to a totally different jurisdiction totally different flavor profile and
that's when people tend to get more exploratory do you keep cigars in home I
do although you think I'm crazy to what I do and what's in your humidor right
now what do you go to I've got a mixture I've got mostly things
that have been gifted to me it could be regional editions from other
countries some my older Cuban Davidoffs we're very lucky we have a 25th
anniversary Davidoff that we produced for our 25th birthday ok I still have a
couple of boxes of that and I keep that for very very special occasions but also
different sizes, different shapes depending on how I feel most of my
domestic smoking would happen on a Sunday ok so it
what is your Sunday smoking ritual deal with the kids first after lunch perhaps
for outdoors the weather permits then I'll have a lovely cigar it doesn't
happen every Sunday and my children are quite young but sometimes where's your
favorite place to smoke you have a balcony or a terrace no outdoors not at
home but close by ok nearby restaurant by I've noticed
something which is not uncommon it does happen to cigars what's happened is as
you've been smoking through there's been a slightly under filled section of the
cigar so the flame has gone through and started to light lower down than the
rest of the belief there is a way to rectify that and it's I would just
burn around it which seems like a terrible waste of tobacco but that will
normally sort out the problem and even up again I'll show you what I was doing
this situation I would just go around that section it'll involve smoking a
slightly strange shape for for the next 10-15 minutes but then it should even up
yeah oftentimes if my cigars lit uneven I'll do that but I've never done never
seen it kind of jump ahead like that yeah it's it thankfully not too common
but it does happen what I'll do if you don't mind I'm just gonna brush off the
ash out normally leave that ash on it's a lovely head of ash I'll brush that off
yeah you can see there's a little hole there yeah and sadly that it does happen
it's a handmade product that's where it's gone through if you continue
working well though I hope so and if you continue with that it should even up
quite nicely if not we'll touch it up again if you
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