Those plans started when I read the backstory of the Mil Días line, a cigar created by Crowned Heads in collaboration with Tabacalera Pichardo in Estelí, Nicaragua. The process that led to this cigar began in 2017, when Jon Huber, co-founder of Crowned Heads, was given some blend samples by Luciano Meirelles and Eradio Pichardo, then co-owners of ACE Prime Cigar and Tabacalera Pichardo. Those samples led the trio on a three-year journey to the finished blend that is Crowned Heads Mil Dias.

Mil Días gets its name from the length of the journey, roughly three years, or 1,000 days, as the cigars were released in August 2020. The blend features an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers from Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Peru