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News: Liga Privada UF-13 Dark Slated for Late March

The details for Drew Estate’s highly-anticipated Liga Privada Único Serie UF-13 Dark are now finalized. As we noted last September, the UF-13, a stronger Liga Privada previously reserved for events and other special purposes, is on track for a release this spring.  While the cigar itself hasn’t changed since that article, the name now reads, [...]

Review: Liga Privada Único Serie Velvet Rat

On October 19, 2012 Drew Estate held a special event at TESA Cigar Co. to sell Drew Estate’s newest Liga Privada for the first time, the Velvet Rat. Just 40 bundles of 10 cigars were offered as part of the “soft launch” with a full release expected mid-2013.  We covered the news a few weeks [...]

Weekly News (July 30, 2012)

Editor’s Note: It’s the last Weekly News before IPCPR 2012 and it’s a busy one. The halfwheel guide to IPCPR will debut Wednesday morning and our IPCPR coverage continue all throughout the week. There will be plenty more tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday—as there is shockingly, a lot more to announce. In addition to visiting halfwheel, [...]

Review: Liga Privada Único Serie UF4 (2012)

Having gone through a few iterations of names, this recent Drew Estate release was named the UF4. Back in 2010, Brooks reviewed the preproduction sample which was called the JD4. That preproduction cigar went on to be named the MF4, which was the official name for quite awhile. Towards the end of 2011 however, the [...]

News: Drew Estate Releases Small Batch of Liga Privada Único Serie Ratzilla

Less than three weeks after offering the Ratzilla for sale for the first time at a Casa de Montecristo event, Jonathan Drew of Drew Estate confirmed a small quantity of cigars from a 2011 batch will be shipped out to various retailers across the country, including over 100 bundles for an event at Jeff Borysiewicz’s [...]

Review: Liga Privada Único Serie Ratzilla (Prerelease)

Liga Privada is forever working on new blends, and new vitolas of old blends, and that is how the Ratzilla came to be. While looking to make a (somewhat) larger version of the insanely popular Dirty Rat, quite a few different sizes were tested before they settled on a final size of 6 1/4 x [...]

Redux: Liga Privada Único Serie L40

At the 2011 IPCPR trade show, Drew Estate unveiled their Lancero, the Liga Privada Ünico Serie L40. Like pretty much everything Drew Estate had at the trade show (Undercrown, Feral Flying Pig, Liga Privada A, MUWAT and extensions to Natural), it wasn’t a surprise. L40 had been floating around in prerelease forms in larger capacity [...]

Review: Liga Privada Ünico Serie Feral Flying Pig (Prerelease)

In 2009, Drew Estate introduced the Liga Privada No. 9 Flying Pig, the vitola of which Steve Saka picked the shape from a photograph of an 1895 cigar salesman’s size-selection case, to impressive reviews. The T52 Flying Pig was released in 2010 to rave reviews as well. Unlike the No. 9 and T52 Flying Pigs, [...]

Review: Liga Privada Ünico Serie A

Today we will be taking a look at a promotional product from Liga Privada, the Único Serie A! About a year ago there were rumors of a possible A size for the Liga Privada line in the works at Drew Estate. As you can imagine, being the Liga Privada whore that I am, I was [...]

Review: Liga Privada Único Serie Dirty Rat

One of the most anticipated cigars of the year is the first in Drew Estate’s Único Serie. Dubbed the Dirty Rat, or Rata Sucia in Spanish, is not all that new. Drew Estate began handing out preproduction samples as early as October of 2009. I first reviewed a preproduction sample of the Dirty Rat way back [...]