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(Description taken from Halfwheel.com website)
Crowned Heads has released the Blood Medicine B-Positive LE 2025, a new 6 x 52 toro. It uses the same internal blend as other Blood Medicine cigars, but the Ecuadorian habano wrapper has been replaced by a Nicaraguan corojo leaf. Underneath is the same Ecuadorian Connecticut-seeed binder and Nicaraguan fillers.
Each cigar has an MSRP of $12.95 and production is limited to 2,400 boxes of 12 cigars.
“The B-Positive concept was something I began working on with the factory last year,” said Jon Huber, co-founder and president of Crowned Heads, in a press release. “I was looking for a darker, meatier expression of the Blood Medicine blend and experimented with several wrappers including broadleaf Connecticut) and a San Andrés (Mexico) varietal, as well. Nothing really hit me until we started working with this corojo wrapper, and once we did, it became clear that it took the blend to an entirely new dimension in flavor and intensity.”
In 2015, Crowned Heads announced that it would introduce a My Father-made event-only cigar called Snake Oil, though the company quickly ran into a trademark issue because The Outlaw Cigar Co., a retailer in Kansas City, Mo., owned the trademark for Snake Oil. Crowned Heads then renamed the cigar Blood Medicine.
In 2022, Crowned Heads announced there would be a new Blood Medicine, once again an event-only cigar, but this time made by Eradio Pichardo’s TacaNicsa factory. Two years later, in 2024, the company opted to offer the cigar for sale and earlier this year, the company released three vitolas of the habano-wrapped version for 2025.
The cigars are still made by Pichardo, but the factory is now going by its original name: D’Hatuey Tabacos S.A.
The cigar is nicely made and 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 sort of an apricot, citrus peel, a little brown sugar, leathery black coffee, and a little earthiness. There was black pepper rated at 7 1/2. Decent start but the sweet notes need to improve.
At the first third (24 minutes) the citrus peel and brown sugar are coming through but the apricot is a little subdued. The earthy, leathery black coffee with earthiness is still in the mix. The cigar is medium bodied. The finish is apricot with very good lingering black pepper. The apricot is better on the finish that it is on the front end. The notes are not bad. They have improved a little from the light up. I rated the first third 92.
As I moved through the second third (53 minutes) there was much more black coffee and the earthiness is up. The sweet notes are trying to keep up but they simply can't. The cigar is medium bodied, leaning toward medium to full. The finish is black coffee with very good lingering black pepper. I rated the second third 90.
The cigar lasted 1 hour 21 minutes. There was a little improvement in the final third. The sweet notes are up. It's more of a citrus note now with brown sugar and underlying citrus peel. The earthy, leathery black coffee has retreated to a manageable amount. The cigar is medium to full bodied. The finish is a little citrus/apricot notes with very good lingering black pepper. I went back to 92 for the final third. This isn't a bad cigar but the sweet notes could be more pronounced.
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