In addition to building a portfolio of regular production and limited edition cigars, Crowned Heads has released a number of smaller run cigars and store exclusives—five last year and one so far in 2015, the Paniolo Especiale for R. Field Wine Co. in Hawaii. Announced in early February, the cigar is a 5 5/8 x 46 corona gorda that uses the same blend as last year’s Tennessee Waltz, a 5 1/2 x 52 cigar created just for retailers in the Volunteer State, and also the same as Yellow Rose, an exclusive for Texas. Tennessee Waltz (5 1/2 x 52) — 2014 — Tennessee Exclusive — Regular Production Paniolo Especiale 2015 (5 5/8 x 46) — 2015 — R. Field Wine Co. Exclusive — Limited Edition Yellow Rose (6 1/4 x 54) — 2015 — Texas Exclusive — Regular Production As Brooks Whittington detailed in his story about this new release, the name comes from a 19th century term for Hawaiian cowboys, or paniolo. According to the story, in 1832 King Kamehameha III sent one of his high chiefs to California to hire Mexican vaqueros, or cowboys, to come to Hawaii to teach the locals how to handle cattle and horses. The word paniolo is ...
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