Caldwell Cigar Co.

Though Robert Caldwell was deep in conversations with retailers, the helpful reps at the booth were able to get me the information on three new releases coming from the company.

This will be the first Long Live The King cigar from Chico Rivas.

All three cigars in this limited edition series are 6 x 54 toros that use an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a Dominican binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic.

The lancero is one of four regular production vitolas in the line that is made with a Cameroon wrapper covering a Sumatran binder and filler tobaccos grown in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.

This release was supposed to be a Lost&Found cigar but then it got adopted by Caldwell Cigar Co.

Blind Man’s Bluff Toro Deluxe is only offered in 100-count cabinets.

Prices for the three companies cigars will increase 5 percent.

The Cameroon-wrapped Long Live the Queen line is offered in four regular production sizes as well as a limited edition box-pressed cigar.

Only 200 boxes are being released this year because the rest of the cigars were destroyed during the Tabacalera William Ventura fire.

Some brands will be made at the Ventura family’s original factory, El Maestro, while Tabacalera William Ventura is rebuilt. Other brands are being discontinued.

Caldwell’s Anastasia line added a new, yellow-banded member this year, and Patrick Lagreid gives the robusto vitola a review.