Walter Paterno

Walter was born in 1969 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is working as a pharmacy preparer/producer of cosmetology. Walter delights in spending quiet moments with his pipe in the company of his wife and two children, for "smoking pipes is a pleasure and a relaxation" which "frees the mind to travel with smoke." A believer in the big fraternity of pipesmokers, Walter is a member of various pipesmoking mailing lists to which also belong several members of the Pipe Club of Lebanon. The happy owner of 70 pipes purchased over more than 10 years of ardent smoking, Walter has a preference for the handmade pipes of Rafael Martin, Bruker, Savinelli, and Mastro de Paja. English mixtures are definitely at the top of his tobacco list, especially Dunhill 965, Balkan, and Larsen; yet he also believes that to every moment there is a tobacco, and good aromatics are as welcome as the old Latakia blend.