Yesterday was national bourbon day, so it’s only fitting that Camacho’s new American Barrel-Aged heads to stores today. It’s a cigar made with Camacho’s signature corojo tobacco that has been aged in bourbon barrels and in case you haven’t noticed, the bourbon barrel theme is a big part of the release. So the obvious question is: how does the cigar pair with bourbon? Camacho asked us at Reklame to find out. So we picked 10 bourbons ranging a spectrum of proofs, price and availability and put them up against Camacho’s newest cigar. Three testers smoked a combination of the three vitolas and drank the 10 bourbons. Because I’m in Arizona and the tasters were in Dallas, I wasn’t invited and instead tasked with putting all of their barely legible notes into a readable post—without even getting to try a drop of bourbon. We wanted a few bourbons that everyone could find without much trouble and popular enough that you likely had heard of them, enter Buffalo Trace, Four Roses and Knob Creek. The basic Buffalo Trace is a definitive bourbon workhorse. The tasters found that a visceral blend of spice and pepper emerged from the 90 proof bourbon when paired with ...
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