Crowned Heads Cigars transformed from a small boutique brand to a company that sells top-notch, premium cigars while maintaining that boutique brand look and feel. Founded in 2011 by Jon Huber and Mike Condor, Crowned Heads Cigars is in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee, and has shown love to the city of music time and time again in their branding.
Each one of Jon Huber's creations has a clear and concise message behind it for all cigar lovers to embrace. Not only did Crowned Heads put boutique branded cigars on the map and made them more popular, but Crowned Heads has taken charge of the “limited edition” gang by storm.
Alongside Crowned Heads, other companies such as Tatuaje Cigars and Arturo Fuente cigars really dominate the space with yearly limited-edition releases. It appears that everyone has limited-edition cigars these days, but Crowned Heads' limited-edition cigars that are thematical have elevated them to gain strong collector appeal from the consumer.
Crowned Heads has a vast portfolio that features cigars for every type of cigar smoker. For this piece, we’re covering some of the best cigars under the Crowned Heads umbrella. We’ll cover some of their first brands that got them off the ground, to cigars that recently came out in the last few years that have made a major impact on the cigar industry.
Either way, you’ll be able to find something you’ll like from Crowned Heads that you can add to your humidor today! So, let’s dive in.
Crowned Heads Four Kicks
The first cigar line Crowned Heads produced and announced was the Four Kicks. August 4th, 2011, the Four Kicks came to market and made an immediate impact. Named after a Kings of Leon song, the Four Kicks packs the same punch as the song does!
Intended to be a regular production line, Jon Huber ended up making the Four Kicks a limited-edition line where he would tweak the blend with every new limited-edition release, such as the Capa Especial or the Mule Kick.
The original Crowned Heads Four Kicks is comprised of tobaccos that hail from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic for the wrapper, binder, and filler. Flavor notes you will detect while enjoying the Four Kicks by Crowned Heads are cocoa, wood, and sweet cream.
More on the full-bodied side, the Four Kicks is the perfect cigar to develop your palate and understand the nuances of a cigar.
Crowned Heads Mil Dias
Another great cigar from Crowned Heads is the Mil Dias, which was released in August of 2020. “Mil Dias”, which translates to “1000 Days”, is a representation of the amount of time required to bring a project from fruition to completion. Once you first take a puff of the Mil Dias, you’ll quickly realize the 1000 days of creating it were well spent!
The Mil Dias is cloaked in a stunning Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, binder tobacco from Nicaragua, and filler tobacco from Peru, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. The combination of these tobaccos creates a deliciously smooth and balanced medium-bodied strength and flavor profile of the Mil Dias.
Some notes you may detect while smoking the Mil Dias are pepper, earth, spice, and dark roast coffee. In such a short time, the Mil Dias has made an extreme impact on Crowned Heads and really helped them pivot into the premium cigar spotlight they’ve always meant to be a part of.
Crowned Heads Las Calaveras
We may be cheating a little bit with this one, considering there’s a handful of cigars under the Las Calaveras line, and we aren’t choosing a specific one. But you can’t go wrong when choosing from the Las Calaveras line. Debuting in 2014, the Las Calaveras is inspired by the Mexican holiday “Dia de Los Muertos”, aka “Day of the Dead”.
Jon Huber created the Las Calaveras line to serve as a tribute to those we have lost that year. So, like the brand inspiration that coincides with the Day of the Dead, the Las Calaveras is created for very personal reasons towards the people over at Crowned Heads.
Each year, the tobaccos used in the Las Calaveras are different in their own unique way, but all of them are manufactured at the My Father Factory in Esteli, Nicaragua. Each band for the Las Calaveras features a skull to represent the Day of the Dead, but the color and design of the band change every year.
Being that the Las Calaveras is extremely rare and limited, the fact that they are one of the best Limited Edition Cigars on the market today, and one of the most sought-after cigars from Crowned Heads, is a testament to the craftsmanship the Las Calaveras provides.
Crowned Heads Jericho Hill
One of the earlier lines created by Crowned Heads, Jericho Hill, was also produced at the My Father Factory in Nicaragua and was a pure spice bomb when it first entered the scene. For OG Crowned Heads fans, the Jericho Hill is one of the best cigars produced from their catalog.
It utilizes the finest Nicaraguan tobaccos for the binder and filler, while cloaked in a dark, lustrous Mexican San Andres wrapper. More on the medium to full-bodied side, this box-pressed beauty has savory flavor notes of earth, pepper, sweet spice, and leather. The perfect pairing for the Jericho Hill would be a cup of coffee or a spirit of your choosing.
If you’re new to Crowned Heads and their cigars, we recommend trying the Jericho Hill first so you can get a sense of their blending style and see how they’ve grown from one of their first original blends.
Crowned Heads Juarez
The final cigar we recommend as one of the best cigars under Crowned Heads is the Crowned Heads Juarez. The Juarez is a follow up to the Jericho Hill. More of a fuller-bodied cigar than the Jericho Hill, the Juarez utilizes different tobaccos than its predecessor.
Cloaked in a Mexican wrapper, the Juarez features tobaccos from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua for the filler, while sporting Ecuadorian tobacco for the binder. The culmination of these various tobaccos provides a rich, mouthwatering flavor bomb on your palate.
With an old-fashioned flavor profile, you’ll detect notes of chocolate, leather, earth, and sweet spice on the backend. When smoking the Juarez, you’ll explore the intricacies and nuances of the blending process from Jon Huber and the team over at Crowned Heads.
Final Thoughts
Although Crowned Heads has over two dozen different lines under their brand, we feel that these five cigars are the perfect set of cigars to try if you’re a new cigar smoker or new to trying anything from Crowned Heads.
With a variety of options, you can tell with any cigar from Crowned Heads that they put their love and heart into making products for any novice or aficionado smoking cigars. We’re excited for you to try some new cigars from a lovable brand or continue to support Crowned Heads if you’ve been an avid lover of their brand since 2011.