California Unflavored Tobacco Law Registration Deadline Passes- Dunbarton pulls out!

[OzPiper]

@OzPiper what goes better with hen, a Riesling or a Sauvignon Blanc?

I'm going to be at odds with a lot of wine drinkers in saying I am not a fan of most Sauvignon Blancs. I dislike the cats pee and green lantana (a noxious weed in Oz) characteristics found in a lot of Antipodean Sav Blancs

Riesling is my favourite white wine - German(esp from the Mosel), Austrian and Alsatian.
We produce a lot of good dry Rieslings in Oz.
A dry Riesling is a great match for a roast chook (Oz speak for chicken)

We have great Asian food in Oz, and a German Kabinett with its slight residual sweetness, low alcohol and lovely acidity is well-suited to Vietnamese, Thai and Malaysian cuisine

 

[Servant King]

green lantana (a noxious weed in Oz)

Careful not to give STG's leaf sourcing division any bright ideas there. You might soon see them swap out all VA varietals for lantana!

We can only hope they don't start using cat urine as a humectant...

 

[Brendan]

If you're only thinking of it now @Servant King that means STG started doing it 6 months ago.

PS.

@OzPiper for official forum sommelier

(Edit: that sounds like a good custom title...)

 

[BingBong]

Are Swisher Sweets at risk in California?

 

[woodsroad]

List of approved cigars?? No.
Will simply be a nice polite message on the online retailers.
“We don’t ship to CA”.

I’m skeptical that cigar e-tailers will be willing to eliminate their California sales. Let’s see what Arnold does.

 

[Brad H]

Are Swisher Sweets at risk in California?

Ouch!!!!

 

[pappymac]

Well, you're right. I was chuckling at the prospect of a half-million cigar smokers crawling across the desert to Vegas just for a whiff of a fine stick. But even given that image, the do-gooders will prevail and the customer and retailer will be the ones to suffer.

How long before the state sets up check-points on the major roads and stop vehicles to search for "contraband" cigars and pipe tobacco?

 

[AreBee]

I’m skeptical that cigar e-tailers will be willing to eliminate their California sales. Let’s see what Arnold does.

I don't think I ever heard of him smoking anything but Cubans.

 

[brian64]

I’m skeptical that cigar e-tailers will be willing to eliminate their California sales. Let’s see what Arnold does.

You mean this Arnold?

Yeah, he's California through and through!

 

[jpberg]

Who is John Galt?

 

[Servant King]

You mean this Arnold?

Yeah, he's California through and through!

No, this one:

 

[woodsroad]

I don't think I ever heard of him smoking anything but Cubans.

Yeah, that was a joke.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Are Swisher Sweets at risk in California?

I think getting rid of the cheap cigars is the point of these new cigar laws.

I know all the flavored ones are gone there, and in other places.

They think they'll save black people from smoking blunts if they outlaw cheap cigars, supposedly.

Similar to the menthol bans.

I wouldn't be surprised if the cigar lobby is cheering this stuff on.

 

[Brendan]

Yeah, that was a joke.

He smoked a Guatemalan once, cost him an absolute fortune.

 

[sardonicus87]

I don't think I ever heard of him smoking anything but Cubans.

He smokes, or has smoked pipes too, not sure what types of blends though...

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

I was in CA for work recently (got a chance to visit Telford’s on the day of their pipe club meeting - total serendipity and met some wonderful, charming and welcoming pipe smokers there) and I was astounded to see the gas station behind-the-counter-shelves stocked full of unflavored nicotine pouches. Grey cans of Zyn, I tell you! What the heck.