Mighty Melts Le Mans Cold Cure Live Rosin Review

If you’re into unsweetened carbonated beverages like many people are, this particular phenotype of the Le Mans cold cure live rosin that Mighty Melts put out is a gram to get your hands on. It's a beautiful, clean hash that tastes lighter than it smells but in an appreciable, delicate kind of way that has an upper class feel to it. The Le Mans is located firmly in sativa town by our estimation and delivers a well rounded body high in addition to some snacking potential.

The gram we received of Mighty Melts’ Le Mans cold cure live rosin is very visually appealing – it has a beautiful, light custardy-yellow hue that has a noticeably reflective sheen of wet terpenes. Cold cure rosins tend to be very shelf stable, and this one is sold unrefrigerated on purpose it seemed. The neat little round yellow dollop of hash in a black glass jar simply presents itself nicely. The texture of this Le Mans rosin is nice and soft, making it an easy medium to get the desired amount from. After mixing it around a little bit over the course of dabbing its contents, it became noticeably chunky but never lost its beauty. 

Packaging-wise, you can see from the pictures that Mighty Melts has made some investments into the look, feel, and performance of the full container. The foiled cardboard combined with an airtight pop-top seal on the jar itself is a touch of quality that many brands don’t spring for. It also came with a tiny metal dab tool, which is a neat addition but is rather flimsy for ongoing use. I’ll stick to my usual instruments but it was quite useful for getting some cool photographs with.

Mighty Melts has been going hard on the lemon crosses as of this review’s writing period, and the Le Mans continues that trend faithfully. I’ve always been a big fan of Lemon Tree (the brand and the strain) so I certainly expected that the Le Mans would present limonene-forward on the nose, which it does. What was a pleasant surprise however is that the aroma rounds itself out in a soft, piney and herbaceous balance that isn’t so sharply acidic like some lemon-heavy phenotypes are. I was definitely able to detect a nice mixture of lemon and lime hints, so I can definitely see where the breeders were coming from name-wise. 

The genetics here are worth pausing on, as Mighty Melts’ denote this version of Le Mans is Lemon Tree x 007UP. If you go poke around, you’ll find Le Mans described as a couple different possible crosses, usually as Lemon Tree x Triangle Kush. This doesn’t appear to be the case for the rosin we enjoyed, as 007UP is a Swamp Boys Seeds creation that’s Lemon Tree x White OG. The Lemon Tree backcross is noteworthy as one of the more popular strains of its category in recent years for breeding, growing, and washing.

I oscillate back and forth between my Peak Pro and my glass rig with its trusty quartz banger depending on the strain or how I’m feeling. For the Le Mans I decided to mix it up from the other recent Mighty Melts hash rosins I’ve sampled in my rig and sprung for the Puffco in the high 400°Fs with water to filter the vapor. The small side of medium-sized dab I took melted down into a beautiful golden puddle in the white ceramic chamber. So far so good.

The smoke from the Le Mans came through as a thin, very light gray vapor that has a mellow, completely pleasant mouthfeel. Contrary to the scent profile, its flavor is not candied Meyer lemons or tart limes, but instead tastes like a soft, unsweetened aperitif-style citrus soda. While that description might seem very specific and suspiciously targeted given the hash’s genetics, that’s the vibe that I got on my tongue from it. My taste buds detected more of a flat Limonata San Pellegrino that was accidentally made without sweetener. It took me a moment to fully appreciate it because it isn’t very strong. Like most live concentrates, especially solventless ones, snippets of floral flavors like some edible flowers impart were also there and would perhaps be easy to miss if you’ve never eaten such a thing.