Drew Estate Makes Liga Privada H99 Connecticut Corojo Super Ancho New Event-Only Cigar
Drew Estate has a new event-only cigar, the Liga Privada H99 Connecticut Corojo Super Ancho.
As super ancho means super wide, it’s fitting that the cigar is a 6 x 60 gordo. It uses a wrapper grown by one farm in the Connecticut River Valley exclusively for Drew Estate, a leaf that is a hybrid derived from stalk-cut habano and Connecticut corojo. Underneath that is a Mexican San Andrés Otapan Último Corte binder and fillers from Honduras, Nicaragua and Pennsylvania, the latter of which is the infamous Green River One Sucker, known for its strength and potent flavor.
The company calls the profile of the Liga Privada H99 Connecticut Corojo “deceptively full-bodied with notes of earth, leather and espresso.”
“Super Ancho’s 6 x 60 format answers the thousands of large ring gauge requests that we’ve been fielding for Liga Privada for more than ten years,” said Jonathan Drew, co-founder and president of Drew Estate, via a press release. “We didn’t fold under pressure to get this 60-ring on the market until it was absolutely perfect and worthy of the name Liga Privada. Additionally, this private blend is truly super-complex, and should be explored by the dudes and dudettes who typically smoke smaller rings, even those who smoke lanceros. Super Ancho is just different.”
The Liga Privada H99 Connecticut Corojo Super Ancho is priced at $21.14 per cigar and $507.36 for a box of 25 cigars. However, it will only be available to Drew Diplomat Program retail partners, and only for events. On top of that, a retailer will be limited to just three boxes per event, further limiting availability.
In June 2022, Drew Estate added a lancero to the Liga Privada H99 Connecticut Corojo, a vitola called Phineas Gage. The line is also available in toro and robusto vitolas, all of which are produced at La Gran Fábrica Drew Estate in Estelí, Nicaragua.
Image courtesy of Drew Estate.
Patrick Lagreid
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