Smoked: Caldwell Lost & Found Swedish Delight

Smoked at: West Chester, Ohio

Caldwell Lost & Found Swedish Delight robusto is mild bodied, med-mild strength. You hardly notice any nicotine. It’s another find in Robert Caldwell’s crusade through the hinterlands of the Dominican in search of the perfect, lost, aged, holy bale.

Flavors: cedar, creamy, earth, minerals, hard to clearly identify but the mineral notes are there, hay, leather, a hint of dark roast coffee on a few puffs, not sweet, kind of salty. It’s a different array of flavors that I’m used to tasting in a smoke, but it just works.

During the final third the mineral note unmasks itself. It’s chalk. Not unpleasant -just another interesting transition twist in the flavors of this cigar.

The retrohale was very mellow allowing the aromas of the leather, wood and hay to be more prominent than the usual pepper hit. That kicked up on the final third.

Construction: perfect draw start to finish. The burn line was pretty even until the last third when it went sideways. At first there’s a thin amount of smoke, although the output picked up by the second third Very white ash, tight, like layer of dime stacked neatly at the end of the cigar.

While smoking, I’m making mental notes. I keep thinking as pleasant an experience as it is, the cigar lacks complexity. After finishing, I can’t say that. It has enough going for it to make it an enjoyable smoke. The flavor components are simply different than I usually taste in combination. It could be the lack of sweetness, the substitute of salty for sweet, the mineral notes or simply the aging of the tobacco – a Caldwell standard. This is a good cigar and one of the better sticks I have tried in the Lost & Found series.