Brand: Macanudo Line: Maduro Ascot Size: 3 3/4″ x 30 Shape: Cigarillo Wrapper: Maduro/Connecticut Broadleaf Filler: Long Origin: Dominican Republic Handmade: Y Strength: Medium Body: Medium Price: $5.00 CAN There are a few places in Kelowna BC to buy cigars, but I tend to frequent the Havana Room most…
Well met, all! I’m Sable, and I have the distinction of being Erin’s loving (and much-loved in return) wife. I suggested that he may wish to bring other authors and reviewers aboard to work towards daily content on a blog which is beginning to get some critical attention; and when Steven Umbrello of The Leather…
When I first read up on My Father’s 2012 cigar of the year, rated 96 by Cigar Aficionado Magazine, I seriously wondered if a cigar can really be that good. However, it certainly piqued my interest, so when my wife offered to buy me one, at Tobacco Land in Kelowna, how could I refuse?
I’m pleased to announce the first ever Okanagan Pipe and Cigar Club custom pipe raffle! Rick Kopf at Rick Black Pipes has gone out of his way to create a masterpiece, custom Canadian shaped briar smoking pipe for the OPCC. Many people at the OPCC pitched in to make this happen, and because of their…
After the fiasco of Sillem’s Black, it took a great deal of convincing myself to give any aromatic a try. However, I needed tobacco, now, and a trip to my local tobacconist revealed that there was little that I had not tried in the little shop. Kelowna Tobacco Land carries all of my staple tobaccos,…
Thinking Man's Pipe Tobacco (Brigham Solitude).
A few years back I was in a near-fatal car accident. It left me as a highly functioning quadriplegic, and required many surgeries. Yesterday was one of those surgeries. I left home at 4:00 AM Wednesday morning to be in surgery for six, so that they could attempt to repair my left arm to the…
When I said that Peterson sets the stage for pipe tobaccos, I don’t think I was thinking of this blend. Peterson Sherlock Holmes is based on a nineteenth-century blend of Brazilian Burley with Indian Virginia, mixed with red and orange smoking leaf, by Kohlhase, Kopp & Co. in Denmark for Peterson of Dublin. When I…
In at Tobacco Land again for my weekly supply of tobacco, I decided it’s time for another cigarette review. Cigarettes are hard to review because most Canadian cigarettes taste the same, and most American cigarettes taste the same as every other American cigarette. Since they are all manufactured at a small handful of plants across…
Growing up in BC’s interior, in the land they call the Okanagan Valley, you develop a certain sense of fruits. Either you become so inured to them that you can’t tell the difference between a peach and a pear by smell, or you learn to differentiate all sorts of different scents rising from the orchards.…
