Quick Smoke: Crowned Heads Four Kicks H-Town Lancero (Stogies World Class Cigars Exclusive)

Each Saturday and Sunday we’ll post a Quick Smoke: not quite a full review, just our brief verdict on a single cigar of “buy,” “hold,” or “sell.”

Houston-based Stogies World Class Cigars has commissioned some of the industry’s best brands to produce a family of “H-Town” lanceros, including Quesada, Tatuaje, Room 101, Fratello, and La Palina. A Four Kicks Lancero from Crowned Heads was added to the series in October. It retails for about $9 and features the familiar Four Kicks recipe—Ecuadorian Habano wrapper around Nicaraguan tobaccos—in a lancero format (7.5 x 38). Bready in texture with notes ranging from crisp honey and red pepper to spicy cedar and chewy leather, this well-constructed specimen is a joy to smoke and an easy recommendation, especially if you’re a lancero admirer and/or a Four Kicks fan.

Verdict = Buy.

–Patrick A

photo credit: Stogie Guys