Lost and Found Scooby Snax Perfecto – CLUB EXCLUSIVE

Lost & Found cigars was founded by Tony Bellatto, Robert Caldwell and Jaclyn Sears in 2013 after Caldwell came back from a trip to the Dominican Republic. Upon his return, he shared some special cigars from another manufacturer and the idea was born. Caldwell has always requested cigars from other manufacturers that are interesting, well-aged, and often forgotten limited editions that are not in production anymore. According to the Lost & Found website: “Bellatto also fell in love with these forgotten gems and asked Caldwell if he could get more to share, and Sears had a brilliant idea about how to market and package them. The concept of Lost & Found is simple: to buy old, special, very well aged cigars from other manufacturers that have been long lost and forgotten, and offer them to consumers at a fair price much less than the original MSRP.”

The Lost and Found Scooby Snax Perfecto in your shipment today is exclusive to you, our members, as you will not find the perfecto shape anywhere else! Besides the shape, the Scooby Snax line was produced in very limited quantities. According to co-founder Tony Ballatto, these smokes where discovered when Caldwell was traveling through the Dominican Republic and they found them fascinating and couldn’t wait to share them. Handmade in the Dominican Republic, this smoke comes dressed in a golden Havana Seed wrapper that hugs an Indonesian binder and Dominican Criollo & Criollo '98 fillers. These rare beauties are medium in body and feature notes of wood, earth, and tobacco. Pair this Snax with a Macallan 12 Year Sherry Oak or your favorite single malt scotch.

Though tobacco is indigenous to Hispaniola, the tobacco industry in the Dominican Republic existed in the shadow of Cuba’s dominance through the 1960s. When the exodus of Cuban cigar makers began in the wake of the revolution, many decided the Dominican Republic would be ideal for the resumption of their livelihoods. Unrest in Nicaragua in the 1980s fueled the Dominican cigar industry further. The country now makes more than half of the premium cigars imported into the U.S.

The Cibao Valley and the nearby city of Santiago are the center of cigar production in the Dominican Republic. Three main varieties are grown here: the mild and native Olor Dominicano; the intense Piloto Cubano, brought from the Vuelta Abajo of Cuba; and San Vicente, a milder and more acidic Piloto hybrid. Dominican puros were once unheard of as it was widely thought impossible to grow quality wrapper leaf on the island, but new growing techniques are now allowing some exceptional puros to be produced.