Cigars and Tea? Could a steaming cup of tea replace a glass of scotch the next time you light up?

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Cigars and Tea? Could a steaming cup of tea replace a glass of scotch the next time you light up?

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Choosing a drink to pair with a cigar is a truly enjoyable task. Wine, scotch, beer and coffee have historically been the accepted beverages of choice to compliment a cigar. Todd Wilson, owner of Indulgecigars.com thoroughly enjoys all these potables, but he reserves a special place in his heart for tea. "It seems only natural", says Todd, that the two should be married, if for no other reason than for their similar physical composition. Many cigar lovers refer to themselves as Brothers of the Leaf when articulating their relationship to others who share their passion. The tea leaf is cultivated and cured in a similar fashion to the tobacco leaf and thus produces a flavor profile that complements a good cigar like no other drink. The shear diversity of tea varietals, country of origins, flavors and aroma will challenge and entice seasoned cigar smokers to pair their most cherished sticks with a steaming cup or iced glass of tea. For the price of a bottle of Makers Mark, one could sample a dozen Tea from indulgeteas.com and enjoy nearly 200 delicious cups.

Todd believes that most negative opinions towards tea stem from only being exposed to overpriced, bitter tasting, over produced grocery store caliber offerings. Those fancy boxes are often filled with nothing but cheap, flavorless leaves that are ground into a powder called fannings and hidden from view inside a teabag. Fannings may brew quickly, but their flavor complexity, aroma and color are severely diminished. Artificial flavorings are often added to spice up or mask these bland, inferior teas.

Quality tea is painstakingly cultivated and picked at the peak of perfection. Whole leaf tea infuses hot water with complex flavors as it blossoms in your cup. The color and aroma of loose leaf tea is nothing like the cloudy, bland experience that comes from Lipton's. Aside from a good cigar, there are few things in life as simple and enjoyable as a properly brewed cup of whole leaf tea. Here are a few pairing suggestions from Todd.

Mild, Connecticut wrapper cigar - Mate tea
Corojo or Criollo wrapper - Gunpowder (Black Tea)
Cameroon wrapper cigar - Japanese sencha (Green Tea)

Although it may never replace scotch or wine as the number one beverage of choice when pairing a cigar, whole leaf tea might just get a seat at the table next to its more potent cousins if Todd has his way.

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