Crowned Heads Moonflower Toro (6×54)

Jon Huber does not name cigars randomly. The moonflower is a night-blooming plant, a flower that stays closed all day and opens only after dark, and for Huber the symbolism runs personal in ways he has not fully spelled out publicly, which somehow makes it more interesting. What he has made clear is that Moonflower represents something significant in the relationship between Crowned Heads and the García family at My Father Cigars, a partnership that has produced Las Calaveras, Tennessee Waltz, La Imperiosa, and Jericho Hill over the years. This is the first all-new regular production Crowned Heads brand to come out of that factory in over a decade. The blend is a 100% Nicaraguan puro built with unusual depth of sourcing: a dark Corojo wrapper from the Namanji region, a double binder pulling from both Estelí and Jalapa, and filler drawn from Estelí, Jalapa, and Condega together.

Three distinct Nicaraguan growing regions in the filler alone. In this 6×54 Toro, that construction opens with white pepper and spice up front, then blossoms into cream, cedar, and nuts through the middle, finishing with a clean, slightly mint-like character that is genuinely distinctive. Medium-full in body, slow-burning by design thanks to the double binder, and packaged 21 to a cabinet box. Worth waiting ten years for.