Caldwell Long Live The Queen Queen Crown

Caldwell Long Live The Queen Queen’s Crown is a 50 x 6 toro made with Nicaraguan and Dominican filler, a Sumatran binder and covered in a light brown slightly oily Colorado Cameroon wrapper with a few raised veins. It sports a primary band of gold, muted red & white with a queen’s image – sort of Middle Eastern with a bonnet and mouth veil – or is that a beard? – plus the Caldwell unicycle logo and the date “2013.” A small secondary band is gold & white proclaiming it a “Long Live The Queen.”

Cedar, earth, leather, dark roast coffee, almonds, some chocolate sweetness and an array of spice including some puffs of serious pepper at times. The wood takes on a charred note and the earth turns musty by the second third. I get hints of bread, herbs, citrus, honey and graham crackers by the second third as well. The final third includes wisps of licorice and steely and chalky mineral. There’s a lot going on here – much complexity in a nicely balanced flavor profile. It’s medium bodied ratcheting up to medium-full by the finish.

Good construction: good open draw, fairly even burn line, volumes of smoke, and grey & white ash that stacked up like a roll of nickels and held to an inch or more.

I was curious to try this vitola in the series as a comparison to the box-pressed Ace of Hearts. I believe they both sport the same tobacco blend and wrapper, but the Ace of Hearts features a Cameroon binder. Without smoking them consecutively, I’m not sure but I would rate the Ace a better cigar. Enough to justify the difference in price? Probably. I will just leave it at I’m impressed with every stick in the series.

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