Smoked: Caldwell Lost & Found One Night Stand Colorado

Smoked at: West Chester, Ohio

Caldwell Lost & Found One Night Stand Colorado was released in 2016 with a brown band. Like the original it’s a medium bodied stick made from something Caldwell picked up at a Dominican tobacco flea market.. The band is typical Caldwell, like Andy Warhol designing a 1980s Swatch – a bedside table with a lamp on it. Chez cool.

It’s a nice October day with autumn in the air so I fired this up on the back patio. Weather and season contribute to an outdoor smoke so the experience is likely at least based on that backdrop.

The flavor notes include mild spice, wood and herbs. The wistful part is a mineral taste I can only describe as flinty, slate, chalk and vegetal, like autumn leaves just beginning to decompose in the flower beds after it rains. The slate, chalk, flint taste reminds me of the minerality you might taste in some wines – Sauvignon Blanc or Syrah come to mind.

There’s good thick smoke output. The burn line was pretty consistent. The ash fell off twice. It didn’t seem to hold more than a half inch before falling.

Much like the original, I find the One Night Standard Colorado an interesting and enjoyable smoke. The mineral and vegetal notes are more aromatic and olfactory, but work well with the other flavors. It’s balanced and just complex enough to keep me coming back and smoking it to the nub.

I also kept coming back for the retrohale- some of this cigar’s more intriguing moments. There was the requisite pepper, but it was muted by the mineral, vegetal notes in the smoke.

Caldwell One Night Stand Colorado (brown band) is worthy of a try. To fully appreciate it, smoke it outdoors in the fall – or listen to Autumn Leaves by Roger Williams while smoking.