Look, there's this stuff called Irish Mist. I discovered it back in the early 70's and always like to keep a bottle around. It's a liqueur they've been making in Ireland for ages. Not too strong at 70 proof but it's supposedly the perfect throwback to the ancient heather wine that was lost some thousand years ago. This stuff is a blend of old Irish whiskey, honey, herbs, spices and caramel. It's hot, sweet and spicy. I've always referred to it as a honey liqueur but it's a sippin' whiskey that shouldn't even be allowed near ice. Anyone who would even consider mixing it in coke or juice needs to be horsewhipped.
I've been without for more than five years now. I threw the last of it, along with a far-beyond-therapeutic dose of pain meds, at a "glad I'm still alive" celebration a while after being sprung from the broken back ward in 2004. I never got around to getting me another bottle since then. It's usually pretty hard to find. But my lovely wife thought about me, as she always does, and got me a bottle for my birthday a while back. Bless her.
So tonight, I decided to have me a taste. Being the confirmed ritualist I am, the perfect smoke is required. Before vapor, it would likely have been something from an island south of Miami and called a Montecristo. Now that I'm a vaper, I'm thinking there has to be a perfect liquid to complement an occasion like this. What I came up with is a logical mix. A blend heavy on Vanilla and Caramel, a little Tobacco, a touch of Coffee and a good whack of Chocolate to set off the slight dark cocoa character of the Mist.
A fresh cartridge of the blend, a tumbler with a few fingers of the Mist and what do I find? Perfection. This is a delight of orgasmic proportion. It goes together like my X and my wife's Y. A sip of the drink makes you say ooh and a puff of the vapor makes you say ahh. As an unashamed collector and lover of the finest cigars and drinks of the world, I can honestly say, it really doesn't get any better than this. A couple of ounces of the Mist and a few cartridges of the blend will make you forget anything has ever been wrong in life. Salud.