81400 Caldwell Blind Man's Bluff with thanks to jakethesnake. Another cigar I know nothing about other than I hate Caldwell but had a good one yesterday so maybe my hatred is unfounded. Oh and it says on the band it's a habano. But it's dark tan and glistening with oils type of habano. I feel like it should be sticky based on appearance.
First light is oily, rich. Wide open draw, small pepper on retro loads of leather and some wheat toast. But no butter or honey or cinnamon or anything to go along with it. Smooth boot leather and toast. And pretty mild boot flavor...to boot.
The burn line is uneven but I'm leaving it to self correct. Tapped off the first ash drop. Maybe some sweetness but it's more like the sweet leather smell when you go into one of those boot stores they used to have before the internet made them go away. This should be called blind man's boot.
Continues on with that leather note, some dry slightly bitter toast, but I'm really reaching for flavors. There's not much here. This could have the band removed and toss it in with my collection of $3 yard gars and I'd not notice.
2" in there's a bit of pepper on retro, maybe some coffee beans in there. Texture is oily but thin like an olive oil vs beef tallow. It's not rich. The smoke is thick. It hasn't self corrected, seems there's a 1/4" of the wrapper that stays proud of the burn line but it's following a prominent vein. I do not like it but it's not awful so I'm gonna finish it.
Little past halfway it does get a little more body but our short relationship isn't going to mend with this slight concession. I wrote off Caldwell years ago. Yesterday's Caldwell got me thinking I'll at least smoke what I've got, and I will. But I really don't think they make good cigars. Nice packaging, catchy names and stories, and pricing like a real premium boutique brand while being not that thing Caldwell is more like Rocky Patel than a small craft cigar company.
I walked away with well over 2" remaining. If these were priced as yard gars, I might give em a pass. It's a decent yard gar. Despite the uneven burn line i never corrected. That vein got larger as it smoked towards the head and the delayed burn point trailed even further behind. It had great draw, and some cigar flavors. I don't think I would smoke another.
Just checked my spreadsheet, there's 5 Caldwells left in there.
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