Pair a pour with a cigar, then rate the pairing
Pick the cigar, rate how well the two went together, and add the food while you are at it.
Log your first pairingAttach a real cigar to the pour
Every pour you log can carry a cigar. Search for it by name in the entry, pick the size, and the pairing points at a specific cigar in the catalogue rather than a word you typed that day. That is what makes a pairing worth keeping: a word cannot be counted, ranked or compared, and a cigar can.
It works for cocktails as well as bottles, so an Old Fashioned with a robusto is as specific a pairing as a neat pour.
Rate the pairing, not just the pour
A great rye and a great cigar are not automatically a great pairing. The pairing carries its own rating out of five, separate from how you rated the spirit. That keeps three judgments where they belong: was the pour good, was the cigar good, and did the two work together.
What you ate, too
A pairing is not only what is in the glass. An entry records the food as well, from a short list of steak, dark chocolate, cheese, nuts and charcuterie, or in your own words if it was none of those.
The Top Pairings board
The Top Pairings board lists the cigar and liquor combinations members have logged, as members log them, and can be sorted by most paired or by highest rated. Reading it needs no account. What it ranks is cigars against liquor, cocktails included.
The Explorer is the other half. It starts from one cigar or one liquor and shows what goes with it, ranked by rating, and it needs you to be signed in.
Start from a spirit, or let Pick for me start from a cigar
When members have paired cigars with a spirit and rated them well, that spirit's page shows a Pairs well with section, with a link into the Explorer for the full list. When nobody has, the section is simply not there.
The same pairings feed Pick for me. Its By pairing mode looks at the cigars you keep in Cigar Vault on the same account and leads with the bottles in your Bar that members have paired with them.
Common questions
- What can I pair a pour with?
- A cigar. Search for it by name in the entry, pick the size, and rate how well the two went together. Every pairing points at a real cigar in the catalogue, not text you typed.
- Can I rate a pairing?
- Yes. A pairing carries its own rating out of five, separate from how you rated the spirit.
- Can I record food with a pour as well as a cigar?
- Yes. An entry takes a food pairing alongside the cigar: steak, dark chocolate, cheese, nuts or charcuterie from the list, or your own words.
- Do I need a Cigar Vault account to log a cigar pairing?
- No. One account covers every Vault, so you can attach a cigar to a pour in Liquor Vault without signing up anywhere else.
- How do the Top Pairings get ranked?
- The board lists the combinations members log and rate, as members log them. You can sort it by most paired or by highest rated.