Caldwell Lost & Found - The Cookie - Privada Cigar Club / LCA Exclusive
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From the Privada Cigar Club website:
The Cookie - Yes, aged 8 years! Let’s talk about the Lancero vitola for any new members. Lanceros are a popular vitola for our club so you will see them often. When a Lancero is good, it’s better than most sizes. It truly highlights the flavors of the wrapper leaf from the outside and concentrates all the flavors on the inside due to its small ring gauge and longer smoking experience. Things really build in this vitola.
Now let’s talk about Lost & Found. Robert Caldwell owns the company. He scours premium cigar factories all over the globe looking for things that may have been forgotten about in their aging rooms. He then puts his own creative label on them and sends them to the US to sell. In the past, he rarely advertised the age on them-that is-until Privada came around.
This cigar has a Habano wrapper. In my opinion, a Habano that is aged 8 years has reached its peak. Of course each blend is different, but I tend to believe if something is aged more than 5-6 years, it will not get much better with age. The binder is from Sumatra. The fillers are Dominican and Nicaraguan. Robert will not tell me what cigar this was in a past life but he did tell me it was around the $13 price range. He also told me that 8 years ago people did not look for Lancero vitolas, which is why it did not sell well, waiting for us in the aging room. In a time when cigars are taken so seriously, it sure is fun to see a cool band like this. It takes me back to a more innocent time of my childhood. It really provokes fun thoughts and makes me think the cigar will be delicious. Let’s find out.
For more information about the Privada Cigar Club click HERE.
The Caldwell Lost & Found Cookie is a Dominican made cigar blended utilizing a Habano wrapper, Sumatran binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. The super limited release was aged for 8 years and comes in a 7 X 38 Lancero vitola only. Solid triple cap perfect for any cut you choose.
This cigar has a beautiful medium brown Habano wrapper with great construction and texture. Upon cut the draw has a perfect resistance. Cold draw has notes of unsweetened cocoa, black tea and hay.
Light up started with a good burn line and tons of smoke. Perfect draw all the way through and burn line stayed razor sharp.
Getting into the flavors, the first third offers notes of light cocoa, unsweetened graham cracker, cedar and light pepper and mint lingering on the tongue and through the retrohale. Fantastic start!
Second third has upfront notes of graham cracker, wood, light earthiness and citrus zest, with white pepper and light mint on the tongue.
The #FinalThird is woodsy with a nice orange zest, a floral note, with lingering mint and pepper ticking up a bit on the tongue and through the retrohale.
Fantastic cigar with nice transitions and complexity.
Smoking time for me, granted a slower smoker, was 2 hours on the dot!
Great cigar with near perfect smoking characteristics and nice complexity! Aged for 8 years, this will be the last time you’ll likely ever be able to get this cigar, and worth searching them out!
I gave The Cookie a Final Third Cigar rating of 94. Get them while you can because you won’t want to miss out on this super limited cigar!
See below for the full breakdown and scoring sheet: