FRIDAY NIGHTS DOWN AT THE LOUNGE

What are you doing on Friday nights?

Down at the cigar lounge, we're trying to have some sort of event every Friday night. Last Friday we had a barbecue and movie. You missed it? Well, next Friday, when you come to downtown Vacaville for the Creekwalk music series, you should stop in to the cigar lounge and see what's happening.

Maybe it'll be a wine-tasting evening, where you can sample some new wine and a cigar or two. Maybe it'll be a barbecue and a movie again. Maybe it'll be a cigar event, where you can meet a representative of a cigar company and take advantage of great cigar deals. Or, maybe it'll be an evening of meeting other cigar aficionados and enjoying a leisurely time of chatting, trying some new cigars, and end up adding our lounge as one more stop on your regular Friday night itinerary.

Hope to see you here.

Welcome to the world of cigars.

Q: What's a good cigar?
A: Whatever you enjoy smoking.

That's not meant to be flippant. Like wine connoisseurs, cigar enthusiasts have wide and varied tastes in what they smoke. There is no simple or pat answer to that question. A good cigar is one that should give you some amount of pleasure while you're smoking it and, hopefully, give you cause to buy another one just like it. Those taste may change daily, or even during the course of a single day. A mild cigar in the morning may not be as satisfying later in the day, or after a large meal. A full-bodied cigar may suit your taste today, but in the company of others, perhaps at a dinner party, or even lounging at a barbecue in the backyard that taste may change toward something more medium or even mild-bodied. Your favorite cigar this week maybe be a different brand, strength, size, and country of origin than it was a month or two ago.

So, my favorite answer to the question, "What's a good cigar" is "The one that I'm smoking right now."