News: Liga Privada UF4 (Exclusive)

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Single store Liga Privada. A few weeks after Jonathan Drew posted a picture of a bundle of MF4s in craft paper, and now the particulars. First and foremost, this is now known as Liga Privada UF4. The cigar is actually the JD4, which Drew Estate had renamed as MF4 for the last eighteen months or [...]

Weekly News (February 21, 2011)

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At the end of each Monday, I wonder what cigar news we could possibly have for next week, each week we seem to deliver. It’s Cuba’s most popular cigar week as the XIII Festival del Habano takes place, including the much-anticipated debuts of the Montecristo Gran Reserva and the Cohiba 1966; in addition, a few [...]

News: New Liga Privadas (Exclusive)

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In the past couple weeks, two of Drew Estate’s lesser-known Liga Privada projects have had some light shed on them. The first was the Liga Privada MF13, a prototype blend based off of the T52 which will be featured at a few special tasting events; the second was the announcement last week that the Ratzilla, [...]

Review: Liga Privada JD4 (Preproduction)

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About 6 months ago, there were sightings and mentions of a new preproduction blend that the guys over at Drew Estate were handing out to specific people. Dubbed the “JD4″, it is a 6 x 52ish cigar that uses the same stalk-cut wrapper (and shares quite a bit of the same characteristics) as the much loved T52 blend.