Black Label Trading Company: BLK WKS Studio NBK Lizard King Cigars

Released alongside the Killer Bee and Rorschach lines in 2015, the NBK is an original cigar from BLK WKS Studio — the avant garde, experimental offshoot of James Brown and Black Label Trading Company. An acronym for "Natural Born Killer," the NBK combines Nicaraguan binder and filler tobaccos with an Ecuadorian Habano Oscuro wrapper, making for an earthy, creamy smoke, with notes of chocolate and toasted peanuts.

The Lizard King version was originally released as an event-only cigar, before being offered to select retailers at the end of 2019. Like the original NBK, it's a box-pressed blend of binder and fillers from Nicaragua. The Lizard King changes the wrapper, though, presenting a barber pole of Ecuadorian Maduro and Rojiso leaves. It's meant as a bolder, more amped up version of the original, imbued with more strength and spice.