Jun 16 The Corona Gorda Crush (well, I couldn’t think of a better name) – H. Upmann Magnum 46 – Holgate Double Trouble - Equipo Navazos ‘La Bota de Ron’ No 65.

Ken Gargett

By Ken Gargett - 2020

First up for the new series (and can someone please come up with a better name) looking at some of our Corona Gorda (plural?), H. Upmann Magnum 46. The code, if I can decipher Whipcrack’s scribblings, TOU ABR 19.

I thought I had probably done this cigar too many times for Kenfessions over the years, so I checked. As it turns out, only twice, including once quite recently. The first time, for reasons that probably seemed appropriate at the time, was when I decided to give a dissertation on funerals, the good, awful and hilarious. It went with a Tassie gin, Dasher & Fisher Meadow Gin, and got 92. The much more recent one, just 86. With a weird Kiwi Orange Liqueur called Rose Rabbit and a terrific Blanton’s Bourbon. No mention of funerals.

When I first started looking at cigars seriously, I smoked a lot of these. I remember my thoughts being…

May 6

May 6 H Upmann Magnum 46 – Cardrona Distillery Rose Rabbit Orange Liqueur - Blanton’s Single Barrel Special Reserve Bourbon

Ken Gargett

By Ken Gargett - 2020

Is any fictional character more perfect for today’s chaotic and isolationist times than Gene Hackman’s ‘Harry Caul’, from the ‘The Conversation’. Harry is one of film’s great characters, a security expert obsessed with his own security and privacy.

The film is by Francis Ford Coppola and was tipped out of Oscar for Best Pic by ‘Godfather II’, another of Coppola’s films (Chinatown was also up that year – a bit of a golden era). The films might be famous but I doubt many could name the winners of Best Actor, Best Actress, from that year, but I remember as a kid seeing the movies they were in and loved them both.

Art Carney in ‘Harry and Tonto’ (okay, I had assumed a western when I went but…