Hi all, since there's no events at Barclay Rex upcoming I figured I should give you a peek into the NY Pipe Club's monthly meeting. The meeting is held the second Tuesday of every month at Florio's Restaurant, in Little Italy, 192 Grand Street, NYC. The members generally get together around 6pm and have dinner at the restaurant then go upstairs, thanks to the NYC No Smoking Law, and relax and smoke their pipes. This month's, December 8th, 2009, meeting was a special one. Over the last couple of months the pipe industry has lost two very well know gentlemen. One was a pipe maker who worked for Ashton pipes and the other gentleman worked for Dunhill. At this meeting we were going to be enjoying some rare Dunhill tobaccos that have been seen in the US. Also some of the members brought their special Dunhill pipes to smoke this wonderful tobacco.
The evening started with dinner at the restaurant, consisting of great Italian food and drink. People were filtering in to the restaurant starting at 6pm and the majority of the crowd was done with dinner by 7:15pm. At this time we all ascend the stairs and go up to Three Little Indians cigar lounge to begin smoking our pipes, Dunhills if we have them, and some wonderful Dunhill tobacco. This tobacco used to be seen in the US years ago but due to licensing agreement conflicts they stopped exporting the tobacco to the US. The only country that still sells Dunhill tobacco is Germany and if you wanted to purchase it over the Internet it would cost you $20 US.
Peter, the website manager, produced a leaflet with information about the Dunhill tobacco maker who passed away and handed it to those who wanted to learn more about this person. He said that he had a Dunhill catalog from 1928 that he'd be raffling off to those who attended this month's Pipe Club meeting. Some of the Dunhill tobacco we smoked were the Durbar blend, which contains a high proportion of Oriental, Virginia and Latakia in the mixture. People also smoked the 965, which has small Latakia, Macedonia Bright and Brown Cavendish. I had the opportunity to try the Durbar blend and, as stated in reviews I have seen, it is a tobacco that takes a good while to smoke. This is not for those who don't like smoking a non-aromatic.
Pictures were taken by Peter and myself. Peter's pictures will be posted on the NY Pipe Club website while anyone wishing to see my pictures can get them at the following link: New York Pipe Club
Our thanks to Larry owner of Florio's and Three Little Indians Cigar Lounge for allowing the New York Pipe Club to hold their monthly meetings at this wonderful establishment. Still no word on any new events at Barclay Rex. Will keep my ear to the cigar in case any news surfaces in the cigar ash.
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