Back for its third year is The Angel’s Anvil (TAA). It’s Crowned Heads cigar exclusively for members of the Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA). This year’s version features a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, Nicaragua binder and Nicaraguan filler. The cigar is a 5 1/2 x 54 box-pressed vitola, the first time The Angel’s Anvil has been box-pressed. Like the first two releases, the cigar is being made at Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr.’s Tabacalera La Alianza S.A. in the Dominican Republic. The name draws inspiration not only from the organization, but is a story created by Crowned Heads co-owner Jon Huber and his time from working at CAO to starting Crowned Heads. Legend has it that there was one fallen angel, in particular, who fell to Earth from the heavens, finding himself alone and lost. Unlike other fallen angels who were content to wander the earth in a soulless state of purgatory, this angel became bound and determined to find his way back to Heaven. The angel soon realized that his only way back would be for him to forge a new set of wings by which he could ascend back to the heavenly skies. He walked the countryside for days and days, until he ...
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