Fratello Bianco Nero

By Tony Casas | June 23, 2025

It’s 105 degrees, the fans are on, misters on full blast, and I am relaxing out back with some iced tea and a Fratello Bianco Nero.

The Good Stuff:

This year Fratello dropped an exciting new blend, the Bianco Nero. The Bianco Nero is a limited edition spinoff of the Bianco blend. Produced at the Joya de Nicaragua factory in Esteli, Nicaragua, the cigar features a Mexican San Andres wrapper over an Indonesian binder and fillers from the Condega and Jalapa regions in Nicaragua. The Bianco Nero comes in at $15 per cigar, packaged in boxes of 10 with only 500 boxes being produced. Huge thanks to the Fratello team for sending these my way tor review.

• Size: 6 x 58
• Wrapper: Mexican San Andres
• Binder: Indonesian
• Filler: Nicaraguan
• Body: Medium/Full
• Strength: Medium
• Price: $15

Prelight:

The Fratello Bianco Nero is a meaty little box-pressed cigar. It starts out with a very, very dark brown wrapper that’s pretty consistent outside of a few lighter areas around the cap. The wrapper’s texture is very toothy and gritty with a decent amount of oil. The wrapper’s texture itself feel very hard, and very dense while the cigar as a whole is incredibly heavy and well-packed. There are some minor veins on the cigar’s wrapper starting from the cigar’s stubby, little foot, heading through the cigar’s wide, torpedo-style body before finishing off with a sharp, pointy, double-wrapped cap. The cigar is finished off with the standard Fratello band (which I love the design from) in black and white with the the words “Bianco Nero” on the back.

The wrapper on the Bianco Nero gives off notes of plum, dark chocolate, and rich tobacco while the foot of the cigar is mostly tobacco and spice scented. The cap cut clean and easily. The cold draw products some rich, deep tobacco flavors over some dark chocolate and loads of musk.

First Third:

The Fratello Bianco Nero starts out with a massive blast of cayenne pepper that left my lips and tongue tingling. Once the pepper fades the cigar releases notes of deep oak and natural tobacco over dark chocolate, musky earthiness and a soft honey finish. The draw is perfect so it releases a whole ton of thick, white smoke while the cigar releases a decent amount of stationary smoke while it rests in my ashtray. The burn line is a little wavy, but that’s to be expected at the start of a perfect format cigar. The burn line is sharp and the ash produced is pretty flaky and light gray in color. It held on for about 3/4 of an inch before giving way.

Second Third:

In the second third of the Fratello Bianco Nero there is an awesome blackberry flavor I didn’t pick up in the first third that has really made its presence known. The BlackBerry is backed by bold dark chocolate and musk with some light sweetness on the finish. The retrohale brings out a ton of spice and black coffee flavors that really make for a great profile. The burn line is now burning dead even without the help of any lighters. I close out the second third with no nicotine kick.

Finish:

Into the final third of the Fratello Bianco Nero and that blackberry has completely dropped out leaving me with bold musk and dark chocolate over black coffee, earthiness and a subtle spice that blends well with the rest of the profile. It took me almost 2 hours to smoke this cigar down to the nub. Despite the early resistance the cigar burned flawlessly from start to finish without any additional help from my torch. I experienced no harshness, no extended heat and only a very minor nicotine kick once finishing.

Overview

I have been a pretty big fan of Fratello cigars and I have to say, the Bianco Nero is probably one of my favorite blends released by the company to date. The flavor profile is rich, bold and complex, not to mention it really sings to my personal palate. The cigar burned flawlessly which says a lot considering its perfecto format. The price is also more affordable than I would expect for a premium, limited edition cigar like this. Combine all that and you got as close to a perfect release as you can get. Grab them before they are gone.