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Smoking a Casa Turrent 1880 Maduro at Château Kefraya Restaurant while drinking Comte de M

Have a Cigar: Casa Turrent 1880 Maduro

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Name: Casa Turrent 1880 Maduro

Country: Mexico

Shape: Parejo

Size: (6 1/2 inches x 54)

Strength: Full

The maduro wrapper is what grabs your attention first. You hold it in your fingers and feel it. Then you smell it. For some reason, it reminds you of cold winter nights by the fireplace. You smell it again. You know it’s going to be a fine cigar.

They pour you a glass of red wine, a full-bodied red wine that smells like memories aged in an oak barrel. You take a sip and detect a subtle taste that is not only wine. No. It’s as bitter as nostalgia and as sweet as hope. It’s something more than wine. Out of this world.

You close your eyes and breathe in the sunny day, the smell of the Beqaa Valley and the nearby winery.

Somewhere in the background your wife laughs and that makes you smile.

You can be happy. Yes. It’s possible, still possible.

You light the cigar and say to yourself, “Glad I’m here. Glad I’m alive today.”

Condega Maduro Cigar Review

Have a Cigar: Condega Serie ‘F’ Maduro

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Name: Condega Serie ‘F’ Maduro

Country: Nicaragua

Shape: Parejo

Size: Robusto (5 inches x 50)

Strength: Full

It rarely happens, but it happens. I smoked four cigars yesterday. The Condega Maduro was the fourth.

I woke up today with a hoarse voice and still a little drunk.

I had so much wine. I don’t think I ever had so much wine before. We were at Château Kefraya, and all the wines were so good. So we emptied many bottles, and we sang.

Chevaliers de la table ronde
Goûtons voir si le vin est bon

Now I’m thinking about something I read a few days ago. Where’s that book?

“Socrates wanted to die,” Nietzsche says in Twilight of the Idols. “Athens did not give him the poison cup; he gave it to himself; he compelled Athens to give it to him.”

Oh, last night! I drank until, like Lord Byron’s Damaetas, I drained the dregs of pleasure’s bowl.

Paradiso Quintessence San Cristobal

Have a Cigar: Paradiso Quintessence Robusto

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Name: Paradiso Quintessence Robusto

Country: Nicaragua

Shape: Parejo

Size: Robusto (5 1/2 inches x 50)

Strength: Medium to Full

Paired with Belgian stouts, the Paradiso Quintessence Robusto was something to fall in love with. Notes of dark roast coffee, cereal, and molasses were the predominant ones. But there were other notes, too. Flavors came from everywhere. I could taste the night and the sea, the stars and the moon, and the wind that blew the past away.

My taste buds were trying to remember something…

My taste buds were trying to interpret the universe.