When it comes to regular production cigars, Crowned Heads has had a fairly predictable approach: one per year, introduced at the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show each summer. That all went out the window when the company began shipping four boxes to seven stores last month. Inside the plain boxes was the company’s newest regular production line: Las Mareas. Crowned Heads owner Jon Huber attempted to do it somewhat quietly, but shortly thereafter acknowledged the cigar’s existence and divulged a few plans for the release. Las Mareas is a Nicaraguan puro using a corojo 99 wrapper and Crowned Heads once again turning to the García family’s My Father Cigars S.A. for production. Each of the seven retailers was shipped one plain box of each size with preproduction bands. Las Mareas (4 1/2 x 48) — $8.25 (Boxes of 20, $165) Las Mareas (5 1/2 x 52) — $9.75 (Boxes of 20, $195) Las Mareas (6 x 54) — $10.50 (Boxes of 20, $210) Las Mareas (6 1/8 x 46) — $9 (Boxes of 20, $180) Huber recently posted an update as to what the box could look like. According to a statement given to CigaHr, two vitolas of Las Mareas will ...
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