At the 2014 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Jon Huber of Crowned Heads told my colleagues that the company was planning on a limited edition release for later in the year that would be available nationally, although split up between two regions, just not east and west as many others have done before. As it turns out, the release would divide the country into northern and southern regions and as such The Mason-Dixon Project–Limited Edition 2014 was born. It’s named after a geographical line that was actually used largely to separate Maryland and Pennsylvania, but is often erroneously referred to as the border separating free states and slave states prior to the Civil War. Like almost all of the Crowned Heads releases in 2014, the cigars are being produced at My Father Cigars S.A. Both are 6 x 52 toros with a suggested retail price of $9.85 per cigar and limited to 1,250 boxes of 20. The MDP-LE 2014 Northern Edition uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers, whereas the MDP-LE 2014 Southern Edition uses Nicaraguan tobacco for the binder and filler, covered in an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper. The Mason-Dixon Project—Limited Edition 2014 Southern Edition (6 ...
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