Crowned Heads and the Garcia family have quietly built one of the most trusted partnerships in the cigar world. This is the first brand-new line they have made together in a decade.
The Crowned Heads Moonflower is a regular-production cigar rolled at the My Father Cigars factory in Estelí, Nicaragua, under a dark Corojo wrapper with a double binder from Estelí and Jalapa and fillers from Estelí, Jalapa, and Condega. It comes in three sizes, Corona Gorda (6×46, $11.95), Robusto (5×52), and Toro (6×54, $13.50), packed in 21-count boxes, and it began shipping to retailers in early May 2026 after debuting at the PCA trade show.
- Dark Corojo wrapper over an all-Nicaraguan core, double-bound from Estelí and Jalapa, rolled at My Father Cigars in Estelí.
- Three sizes: Corona Gorda 6×46 at $11.95, Robusto 5×52, Toro 6×54 at $13.50, all in 21-count boxes, shipping since early May 2026.
- The first new regular-production Crowned Heads brand made with the Garcia family in roughly a decade, named for a flower that only opens after dark.
Here's the blend, the partnership that built it, why the name is more than packaging, and where it lands under $14.
THE BLEND
The recipe is all Nicaragua under a dark Corojo wrapper. A double binder from Estelí and Jalapa holds a filler pulled from Estelí, Jalapa, and Condega, three of the country's core growing regions.
Corojo is a Cuban-descended varietal with a reputation for pepper and leather, and a dark one over an all-Nicaraguan core tends to read rich with a little sweetness behind the spice. Crowned Heads has not stamped a strength number on it, and neither will we until we have smoked through more than one.
"The first new regular-production line between Crowned Heads and My Father in about a decade.", THE STORY ON THIS ONE
A DECADE IN THE MAKING
Crowned Heads launched in 2011 and has leaned on Nicaragua's best factories ever since, the Garcia family's My Father operation among them. A fresh regular-production brand between the two houses, though, has not happened in roughly ten years.
Jon Huber and his team frame Moonflower as a celebration of that partnership, and the timing tracks. When a small brand and a legendary factory have trusted each other this long, the cigar tends to arrive already sorted out.
WHY THE NAME FITS
A moonflower is a real plant, a night-blooming cousin of the morning glory whose white flowers open after dusk and close by morning. Crowned Heads built the whole presentation around that, a deep blue box, a single white bloom on the lid, a cigar meant for the end of the day.
It is the rare release where the packaging and the smoking occasion line up. This is an after-dinner size and an after-dark mood, and the band tells you so before you ever light it.
THE BLIND LABEL TAKE
At $11.95 to $13.50, Moonflower sits right where a serious everyday cigar should sit. A Garcia-made Nicaraguan puro under a dark Corojo wrapper, from a brand with a decade-long track record, priced under most of what it shares a shelf with, that is an easy yes to try.
I'm really looking forward to reviewing this one. I'm waiting for the right time to sit down, relax, and score it properly.
If you already reach for Garcia-made Nicaraguans, this belongs on the list. If you want one cigar that looks and smokes like the last hour of the night, this is it.
The flower opens after dark. So, it turns out, does the cigar named for it.
