Black Label Trading Compagny
Lawless
If I say outlaw, longhorns, rangers, barbed wire, Mexican
bandits and scalp, or if I talk about the series The Son or Landman, what comes
to mind? Texas, obviously. The Wild West, mainly Texas, was often seen as a
lawless region where everyone enforced their own justice.
You now know that James & Angela's cigars tell the story
of their lives or events that have marked them. And that is once again the case
with this production, as Angela explained to me: Lawless is a nod to our
origins, to James and me. We are both Texans, and it’s where we met and got
married. It’s also the base of BLTC on American territory.
The cigar is made in a range of 5 vitolas, but as is
customary, Media Rueda, the Belgian importer, only distributes two modules:
Robusto and Churchill. I will only write one article for both, since, as in
many cases, only the strength and the tasting time change.
So let’s get started with the Lawless Churchill, a beautiful
module with Light brown wrapper, slightly oily. It has a few well-flattened
veins and you can perfectly feel the same resistance and elasticity along the
entire length of this module.
It is adorned with two bands. James maintains his tradition
of choosing bands that relate to their lives or to significant events for them.
Also, we traditionally remain with black, white, off-white, and silver.
Here, the foot band features the name of the line, and the other represents a spool of barbed wire and a longhorn skull; I’m talking about the Texas Longhorn cow.
On the top of the skull is the brand's traditional black
cross.
A country album, a strong coffee, and a Lawless: here I go
to the Wild West! I clip a piece of the cap; cold, I get sensations of
molasses, sweetgrass, cedar, and rich earth. This bodes well for the rest.
I light the foot, and a beautiful flow of smoke fills the
space. You know the new tradition of a cigar that starts off with a bang for
the first inch.
Well, this one is the exception that proves the rule,
because instead of lasting for one inch, it lasts for a good 5 centimeters
(about 2 inches).
I get notes of cayenne pepper, toasted bread, cream, ginger,
tanned leather, and cocoa. Despite its strong power, it has a certain creamy
roundness that makes it very pleasant.
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I change my playlist and opt for a ZZ Top album—Texas obliges—before continuing the tasting and tackling the other half.While Billy Gibbons strums the first chords of La Grange, my cigar shifts into high gear, unleashing an explosion of raw flavors: a carpet of cream, acerola cherry, cocoa, cinnamon, caramel, all wrapped up in a Tex-Mex spice blend.
I'm no longer here; I'm riding with Quanah Parker and his Comanches, or with the first son of Texas, Colonel Eli McCullough, according to the legend.
Slowly but surely, I reach about 6 cm from the end of my tasting—perhaps a good time to mention the burn, which is practically perfect, as is the draw: nothing to complain about.
I am quickly back in the great plains long deserted by the bison, with what I can only describe as a small bomb of flavors in my mouth. I think James wanted, in a single cigar, to convey the power of Texas, from Davy Crockett and the Alamo, through Lance Armstrong, Bonnie & Clyde, and W. Bush.
I finish my tasting for the day on notes of
toasted bread, acacia honey, old well-tanned cow leather, and an ash that
remained compact from start to finish.
The tastings were conducted on 3 Churchill modules,
measuring 17.78 cm for a cepo 48
Wrapper : Habano Rosado (Ecuador)
Binder : Nicaragua
Filler : Nicaragua
In conclusion: a rather powerful cigar that should not be
put into everyone's hands or taken on an empty stomach, as the nicotine is very
present. But experienced aficionados will find raw pleasure with an explosion
of flavors like lightsaber strikes.
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