Yesterday's Saturday ZOOM meeting featured an amazing “show and tell” by our friend Neal, of his recent trip to the Castello factory in Cantù. His many excellent photos and retelling of his conversations and time spent with Kino, were wonderful, entertaining, and informative.
I smoked a bowl of c.1941 Three Nuns (Scottie Piersel opened the cutter-top tin in the 2022 Chicago Show smoking tent and shared some pipefuls with a group of us. It was a little dry, so I rehydrated it with Boveda packets). I smoked it in my 1980s Hayim Pinhas bent billiard meerschaum. The tobacco was very mellow, yet still sweet and a bit spicy. A wee dram of The Macallan 12 was my tipple.