Drew Estate has announced the “Liga Privada 10 Selección de Mercado,” exclusively for International Markets. The new cigar will be shown off and first available at the Intertabac Show in Dortmund, Germany, beginning on Sept. 14.
Liga Privada 10 Selección de Mercado comes in just one vitola, a 6 x 52 Toro. The blend is designed to highlight the bold characteristics of a specially curated Connecticut Criollo wrapper leaf that's grown exclusively for Drew Estate by one farmer in the famed Connecticut River Valley. The cigar's name is Spanish for “Market Selection,” and is inspired by the old practice of selecting wrapper leaves for certain national markets by color. Drew Estate chose only their best rosado Connecticut Criollo leaves to cover the Selección de Mercado.
Selección de Mercado is Drew's first truly global brand drop. Liga Privada is notoriously bold, dense, hearty, earthy and robust … true to the Connecticut River Valley. Seleccion de Mercado is different!!! It's an experience of Liga Privada that's truly unexpected, with the international cigar smoker at the forefront of our mind throughout our creative stages of development. The Selección de Mercado blend is like, ‘Yo homie, I didn't think anybody could get a smoke like this in a cigar that's not Cuban, but this Liga Privada nails it. That's wild.
Drew Estate Founder and President, Jonathan Drew
The blend uses a rosado wrapper, Mexican binder, and filler tobaccos from Nicaragua and Pennsylvania. With an unfinished foot and the Cola de Pescado (fishtail) head, Selección de Mercado is made by the same buncheros and rolleras who make the original Liga Privada 10 Aniversario. The new cigar will be available in 10-count boxes. Pricing was not given in a press release.
