Caldwell Lost & Found Scooby Snax

Smoked: Caldwell Lost & Found Scooby Snax

Smoked at: West Chester, Ohio

Caldwell Lost & Found Scooby Snax is another Dominican batch supposedly “found” in a tobacco flea market by Indiana Caldwell. This was a tough Lost & Found for me to find. After a year-plus long search, I secured a few. Time to fire up what's left.

Scooby Snax is a medium-full bodied, medium-full strength cigar with a dark brown toothy wrapper sporting thick veins, trying to be a one stripe barber pole – unusual. The 5-pack I was able to procure were gordos or super toros – not my favorite vitola. But I had been hunting for Scoobys for some time so I grabbed them when I saw them.

There is a little light sweetness on the head of the cigar, a bit like Baccarat but very subtle. It dissipates after a few puffs. Now here comes pepper, spice, raisins, cream, earth, hay, leather, creaminess, chocolate (more like milk chocolate, nougat and/or cocoa) with some nut and wood notes that are much more prevalent on the retrohale.

That well-aged tobacco flavor is ever present – a trademark of Caldwell Lost & Founds. Coffee kicks in during the 2nd 3rd and continues to build in tandem with the other flavor notes through the finish. There is complexity and balance to this blend – supposedly unkown – although I suspect Caldwell knows but just keeps it a mystery to add to the mystique of LNFs. That’s fine. It’s his prerogative (with permission from Bobby Brown.). If you’re into the Caldwell Lost & Founds, Scooby Snax is worth a try.