Crowned Heads Adding Mil Días Maduro at TPE 2024

Later this month, Crowned Heads will unveil its third version of Mil Días, a new maduro offering.

According to a report from Cigar Aficionado, the Mil Días Maduro will debut at TPE 2024 later this month. It uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper over an Ecuadorian habano binder and fillers from the Condega, Jalapa and Ometepe regions of Nicaragua. By contrast, the regular Mil Días uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers from Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Peru.

This is actually the second Mil Días maduro; Crowned Heads previously released the Mil Días Marranitos, which uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra maduro wrapper over the regular Mil Días blend.

Mil Días Maduro will be offered in three sizes:

• Mil Días Maduro Edmundo (5 3/8 x 52) — $10.95 (Box of 20, $219)
• Mil Días Maduro Sublime (6 x 54) — $12.50 (Box of 20, $250)
• Mil Días Maduro Topes (4 7/8 x 56) — $12.25 (Box of 20, $245)

“Mil Días Maduro is an extension to the original Mil Días brand that we announced back in July of 2020,” said Jon Huber, co-founder of Crowned Heads, in a press release. “What’s important to note, however, is that the Maduro blend is not simply a re-tread of the original blend where we just swapped the wrapper leaf out. Mil Días Maduro is an all-new blend from the outside to the inside that we felt was worthy of bearing the Mil Días brand name. We began working on the Mil Días Maduro blend with Eradio Pichardo in the summer of 2023. The result is a cigar with a flavor profile that is dense and lush, layered with notes of dark chocolate, baking spices, with excellent structure and a pepper component that is most noticeable on the retro-hale.”

Like the rest of the Mil Días blends, Mil Días Maduro is made at Pichardo’s TacaNicsa factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.

TPE 2024 takes place Jan. 31-Feb. 2 in Las Vegas. The report indicates Mil Días Maduro will ship in late February.

A message to Crowned Heads seeking confirmation of the report was not returned, though the company has posted about the cigar on social media.

Update (Jan. 18, 2024) — Added info from the press release.