Cigars with port

[celsis]

Ah, Port. Reminds me of a time a few years ago when I'd just come back from Paris. A mate had a few tickets for the opening of a new club and I decided to wear the new sand coloured suit that I'd bought in France. It was a semi formal type 'do' so my mate had impressed upon me the need to remain sober. I told him it would be no problem as all I'd be drinking was port!

To cut a long a lond story short, the evening was a disaster. I hadn't eaten all day and got to the club and started drinking Port. Half way through the evening, it started to get to me and I ended up dancing with this beautiful woman with a large glass of Port in my hand. Suffice to say that the Port ended up all over my new suit! Stains rather badly, it does!

So, there I was at this 'do', drunk as a skunk and covered in Port! You could say I created a negative impression!

[Robusto]

lol celsis!

I have a problem.

I think alcohol blots out the cigar tobaco taste. I took modest quaffs of port with my JLNo2 yesterday and couldn't taste the cigar half as much. This is why I cannot drink whisky with a cigar.

Should I pour it all down the toilet?

[Mr Omneo]

down the toilet!?! good grief NO!!

If you don't like it with a cigar, keep it with some cheese, a stick or two of celery and perhaps a few ripe grapes...

I have to admit I drink port like wine i.e. from a wine glass rather than my dinky little port glasses, which only get used when i have company, I find i just can't sip it as slowly as I should...

[daverave999]

I'll only have a sip every 5 to 10 minutes. More as a complement to the cigar. Not 'with' it, if that makes any sense. The cigar flavour seeps back in as the drink taste ebbs away.

Though I seem to enjoy them far less when drunk, and I've found Sprite to go well with cigars.

[Stevieboy]

I thought something along the same lines!! Great pic...reminded me of a 50's US pilot with fur-lined collar and all LOL

Fantastic!

I might have believed it was a WW2 epic where cigar-toting Yanks meet pipe-puffing Brits amongst the Spitfires on an airfield somewhere in Surrey.

[HabanoSy]

As the in-laws were thru today i opened a Fonseca Guimaraens Vintage Port 1978 to have with the cigars after dinner (Monte Edmundos).

I have to say it WOW!!! IMHO they paired together perfectly...

[cesara valverde]

Well here's my 2p: Though I've never been a big port fan I do still ahve most of a case of '85 Fonseca which I have drunk with cigars on a couple of occasions.

Firstly no cigar is going to match the rich sweetness of port so a 'complimentary' rich sweet cigar (bolivar RCs, Juan Lopez, any LE/Maduro) isn't going to work well. Rather I'd go for something equally brash but that will contradict the sweetness with dry or salty flavours.

Cigars I'd consider would be: Sancho Panzas a Romeo y Julieta Churchill or any of the Cuabas, some of the stronger 1492 Cohiba's might work too (I'm thinking maybe a Lancero). The Cuaba Diadema is, IMHO, Cuba's most under-rated cigar.

Finally, and most impostantly: don't go for anything with what you would call 'vintage' age on it (10yrs+) beacuse it will just get blown away.

Bear in mind that all tis advice is from someone who has doen his fair share of drinking and smoking in his time... so my palate is probably completely bollixed, and my opinions near-worthless.