The Tabernacle Lancero 7″ x 40

Handmade in Nicaragua, the The Tabernacle Lancero is a broadleaf-wrapped lancero from Foundation Cigar Co. The Tabernacle is Foundation’s Connecticut Broadleaf-wrapped line.

It blends a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper over a Mexican San Andrés binder and Nicaraguan filler at a full body, leading with cocoa, espresso, black pepper, and a sweet, almost-syrupy dark earth. At 7 by 40, the slim format pushes the wrapper forward and burns a touch faster.

Connecticut Broadleaf is stalk cut, meaning the whole plant is cut and hung rather than the leaves picked one by one, then fermented hard and long. That is where the dark color, the oil and the sweetness come from, and why so little of the crop makes wrapper grade.

Pairs well with bourbon, espresso, or porter.