Drew Estate

In the summer of 2016, SmallBatchCigars.com and its brick-and-mortar sibling, Maxamar Ultimate Cigars in Orange, Calif., celebrated the online retailer’s fifth anniversary with a cigar…

They were sitting in a cart in the Drew Estate factory as we strolled by. An innocuous cart. What’s that? Something. No, it’s a Velvet…

If one were to recap the cigar industry in the past year-and-a-half, there are a number of storylines a person could pick from. One of…

In 2015, Drew Estate announced a partnership with Pappy & Co., the merchandising side of the Pappy Van Winkle bourbon brand. The resulting creation was the two-vitola…

At the 2016 IPCPR Convention and Trade Show, Drew Estate was showing off a very interesting project—one that combined two tobaccos that would on their…

In July 2014, Drew Estate announced the first follow-up to its popular Herrera Estelí brand, the Herrera Estelí Norteño Edición Limitada. Coming in at 7 x 48, the…

In April, Willy Herrera told me he was working on a new blend. It’s not a particularly revealing fact given that Herrera is tasked with…

Back in March, Drew Estate made a doubleheader of an announcement that sent fans of the brand into a relative tizzy: first, they would be…

By now, STOGIES World Class Cigars’ H-Town Lancero Series should need no introduction. There is no store that is known for selling lanceros, typically the slowest…

The majority of tobacco grown in the U.S. that makes its way into premium cigars comes from Connecticut or Pennsylvania. Recently, Kentucky has become more…

Earlier this year, Drew Estate’s Herrera Estelí brand came out with another store exclusive, this time for SmallBatchCigar.com and its sister store, Maxamar Ultimate Cigars….