Wine and Prosecco

Pairing with wine allows you to refine and perfect the experience of tasting the cigar significantly. The crucial thing is: Neither of the two luxury items should dominate. The best choice for a heavy-bodied wine like Bordeaux, Amarone, or sweet port wine is a strong cigar from Nicaragua. White wine like Chardonnay or Riesling goes well with milder, more light-bodied cigars from the Dominican Republic. White wine and Prosecco™ blend best with mild cigars. More robust, darker cigars work particularly well with strong red wine like Cabernet. Dark, full-bodied wines like Merlot, on the other hand, perfectly match cigars with sweet smoke.

Since cigars spread their aroma primarily through smoke and nicotine produces a bitter taste on the tongue, pairing them with a sweet wine creates the perfect balance. Sherry and port wine, in particular, can perfect an exquisite smoke. On the pairing of cigars and wine, cigar sommelier Matthias Martens told t-online.de: “Certainly, red wine is a classic with cigars. However, heavy, older wines contain many tannins, which is overwhelming for the palate of many connoisseurs.” Gourmets prefer to drink a Spätlese from the Moselle with considerable residual sweetness like Zeltinger Sonnenuhr. And they like to pair that with a Bock Churchill from the Dominican Republic.