Las Calaveras Edicion Limitada 2024 4-Cigar Sampler

Since 2014, Crowned Heads has issued a version of the La Calaveras Edicion Limitada cigar line, which honors the Day of the Dead (a Mexican holiday that is a celebration of life and remembrance of friends and family members that have passed on). For the 2024 release, the cigar features a savory Ecuadorian Habano wrapper draped over a binder and filler made of Nicaraguan tobaccos, which are grown on farms owned by Jose “Don Pepin” Garcia and his family. When lit, this limited-edition cigar offers a medium to full-bodied smoking experience with a deep complexity and an invigorating retro-hale. Mexican Pink, a hot pink hue that is popular in Mexican culture, plays a major role in the 2024’s band and box design. The color was used as a nod to Ramon Valdiosera, a Mexican painter and fashion designer, who popularized it.

Most cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.

Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
Despite many decades of war and revolution in this Central American country, the cigar industry has thrived due to the hard work and tenacity of Cuban exiles to the land such as Plasencia, Padron, Oliva, Ortez, and others. Tobacco has been a force of social stability, and the country is now one of the principal exporters of premium cigars in the world.

Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
Maduro wrapper can go from dark coffee brown with a reddish tint to blackish brown (the latter also called Oscuro).

Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.

My Father Cigars manufactures handmade premium cigars in Miami and Esteli, Nicaragua. The company is owned and operated by Don Pepin, his son Jaime, and his daughter Janny. The "Garcia Family Industrial Park" located in Esteli, Nicaragua is a seven-acre complex with 9 buildings, over 1900 employees, where the Garcias supervise their cigar production from the tobacco field to the roller's table. Their Miami headquarters house 12 rollers that make all of the company's "handmade in Miami" brands.

The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
Ecuadorian Habano wrapper has become one of the most used cigar wrappers in the market. Grown primarily by the Oliva family, this tobacco originated from Habano or H2000 seeds brought to Ecuador from Cuba. This leaf is rich and flavorful thanks to the temperate climate of Ecuador and the quality of its volcanic soil.

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
Nicaraguan cigar binders are produced mainly in Esteli and Jalapa, both lands with volcanic soil and excellent climate for growing tobacco. Binders grown in Jalapa have sweet undertones. Corojo, Habana2000, Criollo, and Maduro binders are all produced in Nicaragua.

Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.