October 5, 2014 Charlie Minato News

Caldwell Cigar Co. Plans Yellow Cake for Events

Robert Caldwell would like you to try Yellow Cake. Caldwell Cigar Co. is neither entering the pastry business, nor the nuclear weapons business, rather, it’s making a new event-only cigar. Yellow Cake is the next cigar from the company, a 4 x 44 cigar that uses scrap tobaccos from three lines the company produces at Tabacalera William Ventura in the Dominican Republic.

It uses Dominican corojo wrapper, which you can find on the Long Live the King line, as well as filler tobaccos left over from the production of the Eastern Standard and the King is Dead lines.

Beyond the dessert reference, yellowcake gained notoriety in America during the second invasion of Iraq. Yellowcake is a type of concentrated uranium powder. Documents, later discovered to be forgeries, showed that Saddam Hussein was trying to purchase yellowcake uranium from the African nation of Niger. These documents also led to the Valerie Plame scandal.

Robert Caldwell told halfwheel the cigars are coming “in a month.” It will be offered at events in three-packs.

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Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.

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