OCTOBER PIPE CLUB MEETING

Author's Club Meerschaum with white gloves

Well, I was just looking at my blog site and realized that the last posting was about the August Pipe Club picinic .  We got a nice turn out at this meeting including member Dominick who, for work reasons, missed the last two meetings.

A lot has happened since the September meeting.   The Club Meerschaum, ordered back in June, finally arrived from the Turkish Carver which look very good.  Peter Guss brought the pipes along with pairs of white gloves (to honor the old fashion meerschaum smoking tradition).  He also brought some tobacco blends made by McClelland in tribute to some of the old Dunhill blends.  The blends we tried are AM Pipe a clone of Dunhill's Early Morning Pipe (EMP),  PM Pipe a clone of Dunhill's Nightcap and 925 a clone of Dunhill's 965.

Also we have chosen the blends that will eventually become the official New York Pipe Club blends.  The three selected are the VaPerOr blend (Virginia #2), The Balkan #1 (The English #1) blend and the Cigar leaf blend (Sailorman Jack blend).  At the meeting President Lou Carbon said that we would also add the Virginia #1 (Straight Virginia) blend as well.  We have decided that the VaPerOr and the English #1 need to be tweaked further to see if we can improve the blends.  For the VaPerOr we will increase the Oriental component.  For the English #1 we will increase the Latakia component.  Hopefully we'll get two blends that meet the Club members approval.  We should be able to re-taste them, before we make a final decision, to see if they are to our liking. We will also come up with names and artwork that will go on the final packaging. Cornell and Deihl will be the company that will tin the final blends for retail sale.

The night ended with the remaining members, Harvey, Hank, Lou, Liam, Dom and yours truly putting down our pipes.  No we weren't quitting pipe smoking but we had some great cigars that Liam and Avi had brought along.   Liam brought three anniversary Padron cigars 1966, 1965 and 1964 (44yr, 45yr and 46yr) and Avi brought yours truly a 1990 Rocky Patel cigar (20yr).  We enjoyed the last of the evening with these wonderful cigars and then closed out the October Pipe Club meeting.

For those who wish to see the pictures here's the link to them  October Pipe Club Pictures.  Enjoy the pictures.

Well as always I will keep an ear to the cigar / pipe ash to see if any events come up before the November Pipe Club Meeting.