Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Billie,Kuba,Gin

I was talking to my boss today about the great Billie Holiday. We started talking about her great music and how a white boy from Texas born almost in the eighties can have such love for her music.

So tonight I sat down put on Billie, grabbed my bottle of Hendricks gin. I started with “east of the sun”. I just sat and listened. After it finished I remembered I was going to have a cigar as well. I choose an acid kuba kuba, a regular selection among the Division Theory crowd.
The gin goes down with cool juniper up front, which all gin should have and focus on. This gin also uses rose petals and cucumbers in its set of botanicals. I don’t taste any rose petals. I do get the cucumbers. It pairs nicely with the floral incense of the kuba kuba.

Please listen to Billie Holiday, you owe it to yourself.
Hendricks – it is one of the best gins I have ever had.
Acid Kuba Kuba – one of my staples. not an everyday cigar, but Acids are not supposed to be. Try it and tell cigar snobs to go to hell and smoke’em up Johnny.