HERRERA ESTELI

It’s not often you come across a handmade cigar rolled in the US, but it’s even more rare when one is as impressive as the Herrera Esteli Miami Toro Especial. As master blender for Drew Estate, Willy Herrera is personally responsible for many of the masterpieces coming from their Nicaraguan-based La Gran Fabrica, including the original Herrera Esteli. However, for this fine smoke Willy wanted to return to the place where he began his meteoric rise to the top of the cigar stratosphere, the diminutive El Titan de Bronze factory in Miami’s Little Havana. There, some of the world’s best torcedors use traditional methods to bunch the longleaf Dominican and Nicaraguan filler beneath two different types of Ecuadorian tobacco: a Sumatra binder, and a ruddy Habano Oscuro as the wrapper.