Crowned Heads Announces Two Las Calaveras Releases for 2024

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the release of Las Calaveras, Crowned Heads has developed two different blends for 2024.

Technically, these are the 11th and 12th releases for the series, which debuted in 2014. The first will be a standard Las Calaveras release. The Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2024 is a Nicaraguan puro, topped off with a habano wrapper. It is offered in four vitolas, three of which will be sold in boxes and one of which—a belicoso—that is only offered in a four-count sampler that contains one of each of the cigars.

• Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2024 LC48 (6 x 48) — $13.95 (Box of 24, $334.80) — 1,500 Boxes of 24 Cigars + 3,000 Samplers of 1 Cigar (39,000 Total Cigars)
• Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2024 LC52 (5 x 52) — $14.95 (Box of 24, $358.80) — 1,500 Boxes of 24 Cigars + 3,000 Samplers of 1 Cigar (39,000 Total Cigars)
• Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2024 LC54 (6 x 54) — $15.95 (Box of 24, $382.80) — 1,500 Boxes of 24 Cigars + 3,000 Samplers of 1 Cigar (39,000 Total Cigars)
• Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2024 Belicoso Fino (5 1/2 x 52) — 3,000 Samplers of 1 Cigar (3,000 Total Cigars)

The samplers are priced at $56.95.

“When I smoked the final blend for this year’s Las Calaveras, it immediately took me back to the 2015 Las Calaveras profile, which happens to be one of my favorite blends in the series,” said Jon Huber, co-founder of Crowned Heads, in a press release.

Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2024 is expected to ship in late June or early July.

There is also the Las Calaveras Décimo Aniversario, a 6 x 52 toro that uses an Ecuadorian habano oscuro wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan fillers, grown by the García family of My Father fame, who also rolls the cigars for Crowned Heads.

Décimo Aniversario has an MSRP of $18.95 and is limited to 2,500 boxes of 10 cigars. Las Calaveras Décimo Aniversario is expected to begin shipping in late July or early August.

“Las Calaveras has had such a far-reaching impact upon the cigar community over the last decade,” said Huber, “that we felt it only fitting to recognize this milestone of the brand. Décimo is an amazing blend, and we’re so grateful to the Garcia family and My Father Cigars for partnering with us on this tribute, and also for what we’ve created together with the Las Calaveras brand.”

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. This year’s release is dedicated to four people who have passed, each of whom is identified by their initials included on the band.