Crowned Heads Belgian Blue LE 2024 Ships

One of the fuller cigars from Crowned Heads is now heading to stores.

Today, the company began shipping the Belgian Blue LE 2024. It’s a 6 x 54 box-pressed toro that uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over an Ecuadorian binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. The company says that 75 percent of the fillers are from the ligero priming, leaves found on the top of plants that are stronger than those found on the bottom of the lands. It is made at TacaNicsa, the Nicaraguan factory that also makes the Mil Días line for the company.

Each cigar has an MSRP of $12.95 and production is limited to 2,000 boxes of 12 cigars

“Many modern era cigars are intentionally blended to be strong, but Belgian Blue was blended to be full in flavor first, full in body second, and the resulting intensity and strength were a by-product of the blend,” said Jon Huber, co-founder of Crowned Heads, in a press release when the cigar was announced last month. “I’d classify the profile as intense in terms of spice, especially in the retrohale, and strong in terms of body but not in a nicotine-nausea-inducing sort of manner. The blend is comprised of 75 percent ligero with a textured base, meaning that the base leaves selected have more thickness and texture, resulting in more strength and better combustion. The profile is simultaneously strong and smooth.”

The cigar is named after a breed of cattle by the same.