Crowned Heads Adding Mil Días Marranitos E648 LE2023

There will be a sophomore release of the Mil Días Marranitos, though it won’t be the same size as the first edition.

As the name implies, the Mil Días Marranitos E648 LE2023 is a 6 1/8 x 48 limited edition release for Crowned Heads’ Mil Días brand. As with last year’s Mil Días Marranitos EL 2022—which measured 5 3/4 x 52—the Marranitos part of the name indicates that it uses a different wrapper than the regular Mil Días. Both Marranitos releases use an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper over the Mil Días binder and filler blend: a Nicaraguan binder over fillers from Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Peru.

For context, the regular production Mil Días uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper.

The Mil Días Marranitos E648 LE2023 has an MSRP of $12.50 per cigar and is limited to 2,500 boxes of 12 cigars. Crowned Heads says it will ship to stores in early April.

“Marranitos E648 is a nod to the man behind Mil Días, Eradio Pichardo,” said Jon Huber, co-founder of Crowned Heads, in a press release. “I had another Marranitos release on the docket for 2023, and I asked Eradio what his favorite vitola was, which turned out to be a classic 6 1/8″ × 48. Unfortunately, the second half of last year saw a lot of misconceptions and confusion surrounding the Mil Días brand, and as a result, we intentionally took our foot off the gas on expanding the line. The Mil Días Marranitos E648 is our way of saying that Mil Dias is not changing, and that we are excited to continue working with Eradio Pichardo and his team at TacaNicsa.”

Huber told halfwheel that TacaNicsa is located in the same building as the factory that was previously known as Tabacalera Pichardo.

The factory’s name change is likely related to a split between Crowned Heads and Luciano Cigars, formerly known as ACE Prime, both of which made cigars at Tabacalera Pichardo. In September 2022, the two companies separately announced the distribution agreement that saw Crowned Heads distribute ACE Prime would come to an end in October. Previously, Luciano Cigars announced that it moved its production to its own factory and plans to open up a second factory this month.