Seek out local life in Santo Domingo, a mini-Havana with live music in its bars, smooth cigars in its humidors, and a buzz in its cobbled streets that you'd never find in a resort.
TAYLOR'S 40-YEAR-OLD ($155) Pale amber, with just a glimpse of ruddy color highlights, this palate-caressing, still-intense and well-structured port is for kicked-back sipping with the smoothest cigar you've ever owned.
The innovation was in the satin gowns, shown in the smooth Havana cigar brown of the show's invitation.
They are superb, mild, smooth-tasting cigars that leave little aftertaste.
Armed with impeccable English and a smooth manner, the cigar-smoking Aziz became the diplomatic symbol of the Iraqi government, the man Hussein deployed to convey his message to the world.
My beloved unbelievably-hot-curvy wife, our three larger-than-life puppies, smooth whiskey, robust cigars, movies (good movies -- and even sometimes bad movies), my array of Jesus kitsch (thanks to Chase of jcmoonrunner.com I now own a bona fide glow-in-the dark crucifix), custom art, and well-crafted jewelry.
"TELL the Misses not to wait up because the after dinner whiskey & cigars will be smooth and the issues to discuss are many," read the invite to an all-male fundraiser in March for Steve Southerland, the Republican seeking re-election in Florida's second congressional district.
Alas, the need to stay sober and drive forced me to stop halfway through my Terrapin Liquid Bliss, a chocolatey porter from Athens, Ga., and half my Cigar City Roaring Lion, a smooth and balanced IPA from Tampa.
Renowned worldwide for producing the large, caramel-colored, smooth-veined leaf favored by high-end cigar makers, Connecticut's nine shade tobacco farms are largely unknown in their home state.
A few drinks tend to summon happy feelings; no question -- but that doesn't entirely account for the Scotch aficionado's rapture when tasting rare barrels -- or for a cigar buff's love of a smooth Cuban smoke.
He fought his conservative corner in fluent, fervent, gossipy conversations, smoothed with bourbon and cigars and interrupted by immersion in Bach.
