(Description taken from Halfwheel.com website)
Crowned Heads is starting to ship the new Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2025. Blend-wise, it uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers from Nicaragua. Each year, Crowned Heads creates a new Las Calaveras—there were two last year—this is just the second one of the blends to use a Mexican San Andrés wrapper, the other time was in 2018. Every release in the series has been made at My Father Cigars S.A. in Estelí, Nicaragua.
Like previous Las Calaveras releases, the 2025 version will be offered in four vitolas, three of which are sold in standalone boxes while the fourth is exclusive to a sampler that contains one of the four different vitolas.
Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2025 LC52 (5 x 52) — $14.25 (Box of 24, $342) — 1,500 Boxes of 24 Cigars + 3,000 Samplers of 1 Cigar (39,000 Total Cigars)
Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2025 LC54 (6 x 54) — $15.25 (Box of 24, $366) — 1,500 Boxes of 24 Cigars + 3,000 Samplers of 1 Cigar (39,000 Total Cigars) REVIEWED TODAY
Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2025 LC56 (5 x 56) — $16.25 (Box of 24, $390) — 1,500 Boxes of 24 Cigars + 3,000 Samplers of 1 Cigar (39,000 Total Cigars)
Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2025 Petite Lancero (6 1/2 x 40) — 3,000 Samplers of 1 Cigar (3,000 Total Cigars)
The samplers are priced at $57.95.
“What’s unique about this year’s Las Calaveras release is that not only are we utilizing a San Andres cover leaf, but it’s a color grade that most people would not immediately associate with San Andres (Mexico) wrapper,” said Jon Huber, co-founder of Crowned Heads, in a press release when the cigar was announced in June. “We selected a mid-priming wrapper, which resulted in a lighter Colorado color to the cigar as opposed to the more commonly seen darker maduro shades of Mexican San Andres wrappers used. This particular wrapper really complements the blend and allows for the coffee, espresso, and toffee notes to come to the surface that can typically get lost under the pepper and earth profile that the darker, higher priming wrappers yield.”
Las Calaveras is an annual limited edition for the company that pays tribute to those close to the company’s personnel who have lost their lives. Each year has been a different blend, offered in either three or four sizes. The name comes from La Calavera Catrina, a zinc etching by José Guadalupe Posada.
The cigar is well made and medium brown in color. It has a nice feel in the hand.
The test draw after cutting the cap was good with a touch of firmness. The initial flavors at light up were orange citrus, brown sugar, cinnamon, a little earthiness, and black coffee. There was black coffee rated at 8. Very nice start.
At the first third (22 minutes) I had the same notes. The citrus notes are so nice and sweet. The brown sugar is quite sweet and somewhat caramelized. The black coffee is somewhat subdued. The cigar is medium bodied. The finish is citrus with very good lingering black pepper. At this point this is the best Las Calaveras I've had and I've had many over the years. I rated the first third 95.
(Camera issues; no picture of the first third)
Moving through the second third (50 minutes) the notes are still the same but the black coffee has risen. It was light in the first third but it's quite noticeable in the second. The cigar is still medium bodied. The finish has a hint of citrus with black coffee and very good lingering black pepper. The cigar lost a tick with the elevated black coffee. I rated the second third 94.
The cigar lasted 1 hour 22 minutes. Not much changed in the final third. The sweetness tried to make and increase but it didn't do enough to move the needle. The cigar is medium to full bodied. The finish is unchanged. I held the score of 94. This is a good cigar. Give this one a try. I'd say this is the best Las Calaveras I've ever had.
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