Blind Man's Bluff CALDWELL Robusto TEST

Blind Man's Bluff CALDWELL Robusto TEST. I'm currently in my CALDWELL phase. Before breakfast, after breakfast, before lunch, after lunch, before dinner, after dinner, in the middle of the night. Rubbish. That's obviously an exaggeration 😉 But I'm currently enjoying two or three CALDWELLs almost every day.

Here is the article about Caldwell's impressive career: The Swiss CALDWELL story: drugs, dropping out of school and the urge to master life. He's a bit crazy. I like that. My descriptions here in the test about the Robusto may also seem a bit weird. Am I itching? No.

A cigar test is subjective

Note: How a cigar tastes is influenced by personal taste preferences, taste memories, the form of the day, what you have eaten or drunk beforehand. Even the lighting in the room has an influence on the flavour you experience. The notes described here therefore do not necessarily correspond to your own impressions.

Fact Sheet Blind Man's Bluff CALDWELL Robusto

• Format: Robusto (length: 127 mm / ring gauge: 50)
• Tobacco:
  • Wrapper: Ecuador
  • Umbrella leaf: Honduras
  • Filler: Dom. Republic, Honduras
• Price: Status May 2021
  • CHF 8.00 / box of 20 CHF 147.20
  • EUR 8.80 / box of 20 EUR 176.00
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Personal impressions of enjoying this Blind Man's Bluff

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First half

• Tongue, palate: Fantastic cocoa and nut flavours / really now: cocoa and nut - great COMBINATION!!! / slightly acidic / sweetish
• RetronasalPepper, and not in short supply. KAWUMMMM! Now I'm awake!
• R+ ZiZo vacuum technology: Pepper, honey-like ...haha... what a word coinage: „honey-like“.
• Umami: juicy / roasty / meaty. I now fancy grilled peppers with steak. En Gute.
• Strength 3/5

Second half

• The strength goes up to 4/5, with even more cocoa and even more nut. Maybe a touch of soil from the forest. (just not from your own garden, it has to be from the forest).

What is „retronasal“?

Retronasal cigar enjoyment enhances the flavour. What it is, why it works and how to do it please read here. Take a look at the ZiZo vacuum technology in particular. Incredible enhancement of cigar enjoyment!

What is the „R+ ZiZo vacuum technology“?

This is the consummate pleasure of a cigar. Hard to describe. I'll try. Here's an example: a baby sucking on a dummy. Try this technique with a cigar. Very little smoke gets into the mouth. But it passes over the tongue and goes straight through the nose. I tried it with about 10 cigars before I mastered it. Please be very careful with this technique when practising: the smoke hit the back of my larynx several times. That was really bad. But now that I can do it, it's a perfect technique for enjoying a cigar.

What is umami?

This means „savouriness“, „spicy“, „essence“, „meaty“. This mixture of taste sensations is perceived on the centre of the tongue. You can find a good article about this on Wikipedia. 

Non Cuba cigars and the important acclimatisation process

Acclimatisation recommendation: 3 days in the humidor with cellophane.

The fact is: you don't know when the cigar was imported and how long it rested with the importer. You also don't know how long the resting phase was at the retailer. Cigars are in shock after being transported from the tropics to Europe. They have to acclimatise first. The industry is sales-orientated. The cigars have to be sold quickly. Therefore, they may not taste as they should.

If you buy single copies

Place the cigar with the cellophane in the humidor. If your cigar does not have cellophane: Put them in tubos and then in the humidor. Or you can put the individual cigars in a Zippo bag and put a small Boveda inside. You then seal it and place it in the humidor. Cigars that are stored open without cellophane or a box lose their flavour very quickly. This is demonstrated in this article with experiments.

Conclusion of this Blind Man's Bluff Robusto

I really love the Caldwell cigars. They meet my flavour preferences. Sometimes they taste stronger, sometimes weaker. This is due to my form on the day and is completely normal. From about the second half of this Robusto, I can taste a floral sweetness. This remains omnipresent in the day until the end of the cigar.

The balance between lots of nut, cocoa and a little earth - and then mixed with this floral sweetness - is simply the top hit for me.

Go to your shop and buy yourself a few of these cigars. You won't regret it. It is completely unproblematic. I simply corrected the skewed burn (if it should occur) with the flame.