Yes, there is a cigar called Funfetti, and yes, it’s a serious release. Given Robert Caldwell’s seeming love of quirky names for cigars, it might very well be no surprise that this store exclusive for JR Cigar is coming from him. It might also not be a surprise that this is an offshoot of another one of Caldwell’s more interestingly named cigars, Yellow Cake, an event only release announced in October 2014. For this cigar, Caldwell created a 5 x 50 robusto that he said is designed to be a more balanced version of the 4 x 44 Yellow Cake, something he achieved through making changes to the blend. Gone is the Dominican corojo wrapper, replaced with a Sumatra capa that sits on top of a Nicaraguan binder and fillers. Caldwell told halfwheel that “I didn’t like Yellow Cake; I like Funfetti.” He went onto say that the concept behind Funfetti was “to make a full size Yellow Cake concept that was more well rounded and better balanced,” adding that it would have enough produced so that more people could try it, as opposed to the event-only Yellow Cake. While not a huge run by some standards, 20,000 Funfetti cigars were produced, ...
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