Black Label Trading Co. Morphine Lancero

📌 Brand: Black Label Trading Company
📌 Line: Morphine
📌 Size: Lancero (7 1/2" × 38)
📌 Weight: 13.7 g
📌 Age: 7 years
📌 Origin: Nicaragua

Tasting Notes

• Blackberry – Dark, jammy sweetness

• Earth – Dense and brooding foundation

• Espresso – Bitter-dark roasted depth

• Anise – Subtle licorice tone weaving through

First Impressions

The Morphine Lancero is striking — jet-black wrapper, oily sheen, tightly rolled with sharp seams. Pre-light aroma brings blackberry syrup, pepper, and earth. Cold draw is perfect, offering dark fruit and spice.

Smoking Experience

• First Third – Blackberry and earth open immediately, thick smoke output, espresso rolls in underneath. Burn is sharp and clean.

• Second Third – Espresso strengthens, anise appears subtly, and sweetness deepens. Construction immaculate until a small wave forms.

• Final Third – Pepper sharpens, fruitiness softens, earth grows darker. Requires one touch-up, then finishes cool and rich to the nub.

Pairings

• Alcohol – Dictador 20 Year Colombian Rum, molasses, cocoa, and dried fruit echoing the cigar’s blackberry-espresso richness.

• Tea – Taiwanese Sun Moon Lake Black Tea (Ruby No. 18), naturally minty and sweet, enhancing anise and fruit in the profile.

Music Pairing

“Electric Worry” – Clutch
Dirty groove and grit matching the espresso-earth weight of the profile.

Final Thoughts

The Morphine Lancero is bold but elegant — dark fruit, espresso, earth, and spice delivered with signature BLTC intensity. Only one touch-up interrupted an otherwise flawless performance, with flavor evolution staying rich and deliberate throughout.

Final Score: 9/10
Why not a 10?
A minor burn touch-up in the final third prevented perfection in an otherwise nearly flawless Lancero.

Only cigars that deliver flawless draw, balance, flavour evolution, construction and satisfaction get a 10.