Pre-light Experience

Aaron: The wrapper on the Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl is light brown and has some raised, knotty veins. The seams are smooth and the caps well applied. There are three bands, with the primary being red, creamy brown and white and denoting the line. The secondary is white and brown and denotes the sub-line. The foot band carries the same color combination as the primary and denotes the company. The aroma from the wrapper is sweet hay and cedar while the foot brings sweet bread and zingy spiciness. The pre-light draw brings a mix of cedar and bread.
Seth: The Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl is a nice-looking cigar and finished with a lovely wrapper that is simple in appearance. Great Natural coloring with some Colorado aspects. Small veins are present throughout with a nice firmness and oils. Some tooth. Aromas of rich earth, tobacco, barnyard and spices.
John: The Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl came in cellophane and had a UPC sticker attached to the main cellophane body with the cigar information. There is a primary Coroneta band along with a secondary Habano band and then finally a Crowned Heads foot band. I weighed the cigar at 13.7 grams and measured the humidity at 63.2% with the HumidiMeter Pro. From the wrapper, I could detect aromas of light barnyard and earth. Out of the foot, I was picking up hay and tobacco, both at light plus levels.

Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl

First Third

Aaron: The cigar begins with toasted oak and some earth. At a quarter inch in, a light mustiness joins the profile. At a half inch in, a very mild black pepper joins the profile. The retrohale is musty, toasted oak and earth. As the third comes to a close, the lightly musty, toasted oak is just ahead of the earth, with some mild black pepper in the background. The strength was right at medium.
Seth: The first third opens with some dry earth, leather, oak and tobacco notes. There is some spice present, dry bread as well, and the finish has some mineral qualities. Medium to medium-full in strength and body.
John: Wood leads off the first third with spices and graham cracker to follow as wood and mild, dry spices define the finish. That profile remains consistent as it continues. Moving towards the halfway mark, chocolate is present in the center of the profile.

Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl

Second Third

Aaron: As the second third begins, the black pepper picks up a bit. At a half inch in, the musty, toasted oak and earth are now even up front. The retrohale remains musty, toasted oak and earth. At an inch and a quarter, the black pepper is now in the middle of the profile. As the third comes to a close, the musty, toasted oak and earth are even up front, with the black pepper in the middle of the profile. The strength remained at medium.
Seth: The second third is consistent with the first. Leather, oak, dry earth and tobacco. Some spices are present on the finish with dry bread and mineral notes. Medium to medium-full in strength and body again.
John: Spices lead off again here with graham cracker, bread and wood following, chocolate just missing the center of the profile and a woody finish. There are some delayed spices on the post draw. Those spices intensify on the finish to medium strength as the second third continues. By the halfway point, savory wood comes into the post draw to add complexity. Through the bottom half, some mild dryness accents the savory wood.

Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl

Final Third

Aaron: As the final third begins, the toast level becomes pretty heavy. The retrohale is now toasted oak, earth along with some black pepper. As the cigar wraps up, the musty, heavily toasted oak and earth are even up front, with the black pepper in the middle of the profile. The strength remained at medium.
Seth: The final third is right in line with the first and second. Mineral notes are more present, and present on the finish, but the third delivers the leather, oak, tobacco and dry earth flavor profile.
John: The last third gets going with medium strength spices, with wood following and a mildly dry wood on the finish. As the last third continues, the spices build to medium-full, with sweet wood offsetting the intensity somewhat on the finish. Moving towards the halfway point, earth joins the finish as well but drops off quickly on the post draw.

Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl

Burn

Aaron: The burn was straight throughout, and the ash held on in inch and a quarter increments.
Seth: Construction was very nice from beginning to end. Nice burn.
John: The burn was razor straight through the first third, becoming slightly wavy in the second third and then straightening out again in the last third.

Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl

Draw

Aaron: The draw was perfect, with just the right amount of resistance that I prefer.
Seth: Great draw from start to finish.
John: The draw was at most one notch towards the resistant spectrum, which puts it in the ideal range between open and resistant for an amazing draw rating.

Overall

Aaron: The cigar began with toasted oak and some earth. A light mustiness joined in fairly quickly. Some black pepper joined a bit later. The second third saw the black pepper increase until it reached the middle of the profile. The final third saw the toast level become pretty heavy. Construction was absolutely perfect. The Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl had an average flavor profile throughout, focused around the musty, toasted oak, earth and black pepper. Just some slight transitions to the fullness of flavors, otherwise quite linear. Nothing very exciting from this cigar, and not one I’d see myself coming back to.
Seth: The Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl is not a bad cigar, but not something I would come back to or even recommend. NACSA has better and more complex blends. Crowned Heads does too. I am opposed to natural and maduro wrapper offerings these days as well, because I have seen too many multi-wrapper releases tank. It’s a pretty cigar, and has a great aroma, but it just never opens up and takes off. It is consistent though, and never goes downhill.
John: The Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl did more than enough in the first and second thirds with flavor combinations and balance to keep me engaged. The last third was still pleasant, but I felt it lacked the same complexity that was present from the previous sections of the cigar. Burn had some minor waviness in the second third but otherwise was flawless, with the draw being perfect as well. I thought the Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl did more than enough to make me want to return to this in the future, and the price point is perfectly reasonable for the current market levels in 2024. Total smoking time was a bit on the quick side for me at 1 hour and 47 minutes.

Aaron Loomis

SCORE

5.75

Cost/Point

$2.25

Scoring System

Seth Geise

SCORE

5.50

Cost/Point

$2.35

Scoring System

John McTavish

SCORE

6.82

Cost/Point

$1.90

Scoring System

Team Cigar Review: Crowned Heads Coroneta Habano Earl