The Drew Estate Herrera Esteli in Toro

This 6X52 light brown cigar appears to be perfectly rolled.  It has zero visible seems and is oily to the touch, and shines brightly.  At first light, I get a large amount of a sweet cedar.  Its mild to medium in body and is quite enjoyable.  The foot on this cigar gives off a ton of smoke.  Plumes of smoke billow out of it like a churning fire through a chimney.  This I have found very common with many Drew Estate Cigars.  The draw is firm, but not plugged, and gave off a good amount of smoke.

After a bout 22 minutes the cigar is burning slowly only down about an inch or so.  The flavors of cedar are still present but are starting to turn more into a vanilla sweet nuttiness.  The flavor is very bold and is coming into a medium body.  The vanilla is not their with every puff.  One puff the cigar produces a huge blast of a cedary, earthy, nuttiness.  The next puff it will be a vanilla nuttiness.  The flavors are fairly complex switching after every other draw or so.

Nearing the half way point and about an hour in, the cigars burn went wonky.  It has been pretty sharp until this point.  The smoke production had come to near halt.  I taped off the ash to find the the cigar was tunneling(burning faster on the inside, then on the outside).  After a few more puffs the flavors were a warm nuttiness burnt tobacco.  Two puffs later and the cigar was completely out.  I found this to be really weird, because it had been preforming very well until that point.  I gave it a relight and after about 10 or so draws the cedary, earthy Vanilla started to come back in to play.  The burn never quite recovered requiring a few touch ups. The body has gone up to a full in body, but is starting to come back down.

The last two in a half inches or so are dominated by a earthy nuttiness.  It likes a double draw.  Without the double draw it gives the impression that it wants to go out again.  The burn is still very wonky but required no more touch ups.  The sweetness is gone, so is the vanilla and cedar.  The nuttiness and burnt tobacco comes back again at the two inch mark at 1 hour and 35 minutes in.  I sat the cigar down for the last time at exactly 1 hour and 40 minutes when the cigar went completely warm and bitter.

Price: $8.00
Appearance: 95
Draw: 85
Burn: 82
Flavor: 88
Burn Time: 94

Overall Score: 88