Caldwell Blind Man’s Bluff Connecticut Toro (Box of 20)

Robert Caldwell built Blind Man’s Bluff around a filler of San Vicente, a Dominican hybrid leaf, layered with Honduran Criollo ligero and bound in Honduran Criollo. Two years after the original, he traded its Ecuadorian Habano wrapper for a pale Ecuadorian Connecticut shade leaf, and the whole blend settled down around it.

What comes through is cream first: vanilla and cedar, a quiet thread of white pepper underneath, and none of the thinness a Connecticut can fall into. The 6×52 toro gives the blend room to develop through the middle third, and it is the size most smokers settle on. Boxes of 20.