Lost&Found Releases Foreverfresh Dark Broadleaf, Pepper Cream Soda Boxpress

There are two new Lost&Found blends shipping to stores this week, both made by Oliva Cigar Co. in Nicaragua.

Foreverfresh Dark Broadleaf uses a broadleaf wrapper; in this case, it’s a leaf grown in Pennsylvania. Underneath is a variety of habano-seed tobaccos grown in Estelí, Nicaragua, used for both the binder and the filler. It’s offered in four sizes:

• Foreverfresh Dark Broadleaf Rothschild (4 x 48) — $8 (Box of 20, $160)
• Foreverfresh Dark Broadleaf Robusto (5 x 50) — $8.50 (Box of 20, $170)
• Foreverfresh Dark Broadleaf Lonsdale (6 1/2 x 42) — $8.50 (Box of 20, $170)
• Foreverfresh Dark Broadleaf Toro (6 x 54) — $9.50 (Box of 20, $190)

Robert Caldwell of Lost&Found told halfwheel there are 350 boxes of each size shipping to stores this week.

The other new release is a new version of Pepper Cream Soda. As the name Pepper Cream Soda Boxpress implies, the vitolas for this line are box-pressed. Blend-wise, it uses a Pennsylvania broadleaf oscuro wrapper over a binder from Jalapa, Nicaragua and fillers from Condega and Jalapa, Nicaragua.

It is offered in three sizes:

• Pepper Cream Soda Boxpress Robusto (5 x 52) — $12 (Box of 10, $120)
• Pepper Cream Soda Boxpress Toro (6 x 54) — $12.50 (Box of 10, $125)
• Pepper Cream Soda Boxpress Gordo (6 x 60) — $13 (Box of 10, $130)

Production is limited to 500 boxes per vitola of Pepper Cream Soda Boxpress.

Unlike most of the Lost&Found releases in the brand’s history, these cigars were commissioned by Lost&Found and then produced by Oliva. Historically, Lost&Found is a project that involved Caldwell finding orphaned cigars that had been left in a cigar factory’s aging room for one reason or another. He would buy the cigars, Jaclyn Sears creates the artwork, and Tony Bellatto is tasked with handling the sales of Lost&Found.

After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Caldwell declared that all of the good orphaned cigars had been found, and therefore Lost&Found would switch to a more traditional model where it asked factories to make cigars specifically for the project.