Caldwell Eastern Standard

The brand owner and founder of this relatively new cigar brand is Robert Caldwell. In the past, he distributed cigars in the USA under the name Wynwood Zigarren, which were produced by Christian Eiroa in Honduras. In 2013, the two parted ways, after which Robert took a short break before returning in 2014 with his own brand. He has his cigars manufactured in both Honduras and the Dominican Republic; the Caldwell Eastern Standard Zigarren are rolled in the Dominican Republic by Henderson and William Ventura.

Caldwell Eastern Standard: Exotic Blends by Robert Caldwell

In the meantime, he has moved his production out of the tabacalera and, together with the two Venturas, founded the Caldwell Cigar Factory. Robert’s ambition is always to use the finest tobaccos and to create rather exotic, unconventional blends. Due to the small quantity of cigars he produces, these boutique cigars can also be made using very rare and particularly scarce materials. Here you will find an overview of all cigars of the Caldwell Zigarren Co. brand distributed to German tobacco retailers by Wolfertz GmbH since September 2016. The vitolas of the Eastern Standard were originally all made with a Connecticut Shade wrapper from Ecuador, while the binder and the filler came from the Dominican Republic. However, this differs for the Sungrown formats. They feature a Sungrown wrapper from Mexico, combined with a binder from Ecuador and a Dominican-Mexican filler.

The Innovative World of Caldwell Cigars: Eastern Standard and Sungrown

They are packed in wooden boxes of 20, all decorated with a bearded, gray-haired gentleman, beneath whom the slogan “Live East, Die Young” can be read on the company’s website. What does it mean? We also raised an eyebrow; but according to Caldwell, there is no deeper meaning—he simply thought it was “cool”...