Black Label Trading Co. Celebrates 10th Anniversary With La Madonna Negra

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Black Label Trading Co., and like most cigar companies that celebrate major anniversaries, there will be a special cigar or three.

Next week, the company will ship the La Madonna Negra, the company’s 10th anniversary cigar, to retailers. Blend-wise, it uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper over an Ecuadorian habano binder and fillers from Nicaragua and Pennsylvania.

Black Label Trading Co. is making the cigar in three vitolas:

• La Madonna Negra Rothschild Box Press (4 1/2 x 48) — $11 (Box of 20, $220)
• La Madonna Negra Corona Gorda Box Press (5 1/2 x 50) — $12.50 (Box of 20, $250)
• La Madonna Negra Robusto Box Press (5 x 54) — $13 (Box of 20, $260)

Each of the sizes is limited to 900 boxes, though the company is making 50 Collection Boxes that will contain a mixture of 32 cigars, made up of the three sizes. Those boxes are priced at $392 or $12.25 per cigar. Tomorrow, Black Label Trading Co. will host a lottery drawing to announce the stores that will receive the Collection Boxes. That announcement will take place on Black Label Trading Co.’s Instagram page at 6 p.m. CDT.

“La Madonna Negra is a culmination of things I’ve learned over the last decade of cigar making,” said James Brown, founder of Black Label Trading Co. and partner at Fábrica Oveja Negra, in a press release. “It’s a cigar that not only represents Black Label but also represents who I am today as a cigar maker. It’s bold, as a BLTC cigar should be but, it’s also very refined and elegant. It has layers of complexity and a very unique profile. A mixture of different spice elements combines with aromatic floral notes to create something unexpected. I’m very proud of the result.”

Black Label Trading Co. produces cigars at the company’s Fábrica Oveja Negra factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.