The 2019 version of the Herrera Esteli Norteño Edicion Limitada will soon be showing up on the shelves of Drew Diplomat retailers nationwide, as today Drew Estate announced that is has begun shipping the limited edition cigar.
It’s a 7 x 48 box pressed Churchill that uses a maduro wrapper from the San Andrés region of Mexico, a Honduran-grown binder and “extensively aged” fillers from the Estelí and Jalapa regions of Nicaragua, which the company says results in a smoother, complex smoke, according to a press release. It is made at La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate in Estelí, with 1,000 boxes produced.
This extension to the regular production Herrera Esteli Norteño line debuted in 2015. This year’s version comes in 15-count boxes priced at $217.96, or about $14.53 per cigar, before taxes.
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