TheCaldwell Long Live The Queen Queen’s Sword is arguably the connoisseur’s vitola in the Long Live The Queen collection. At a classic7" x 38 Lancero, it places considerably more emphasis on the blend’s genuineCameroon wrapper, backed by an Indonesian Sumatra binder and Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers. It’s an old-school format particularly well suited to Cameroon, a leaf prized less for power than for its distinctive aroma, natural sweetness and fine, almost exotic spice.
The slender 38 ring gauge puts that wrapper firmly at the center of the experience. Expect fragrant cedar, toasted nuts and dry cocoa accompanied by cinnamon-like spice and a restrained honeyed sweetness. As the cigar develops, coffee, earth and pepper emerge from the Dominican and Nicaraguan core, providing enough depth to keep the delicate wrapper from becoming lost. The Lancero format rewards a slow cadence; treated properly, it delivers a remarkably precise expression of the blend, with subtle changes in sweetness, spice and aroma rather than sheer intensity.
For experienced smokers who appreciate traditional ring gauges, Queen’s Sword may be the most revealing Long Live The Queen of them all. This is a cigar for anyone who understands why a great Lancero can tell you more about a wrapper than almost any other shape.Smoke it slowly and give the Cameroon your attention—then put a few more in the humidor. Queen’s Sword is exactly the kind of cigar seasoned smokers tend to come back to.
