Drew Estate created the Liga Privada No. 9 Flying Pig for Steve Saka's personal enjoyment and this cigar was released in 2009 at the New Orleans IPCPR show.
A departure from the flavored cigars and budget sticks Drew Estate is known for, the Liga Privada No. 9 is quite complex. A multi-country blend of tobaccos the core of this cigar is the Dominican, Honduran, and Nicaraguan filler. The Brazilian Mata Fina binder is grown by Jose Fuego.
Kinda feels like smoking a WOAM, but different flavor profile obviously. These are packaged 12 to a box, with 2000 boxes total.
"Cuban seed tobaccos grown in Nicaragua and Cuba. The wrapper would be from Cuba. The binder leaves would be from Nicaragua. For the ligero tobacco in the filler, he would use two types, one from Esteli and the other from Jalapa in Nicaragua. The other filler components, seco and viso, would come from Cuba, the former from Villa Clara, the latter from Pinar del Rio. That Cigar, he says with pride, would score 100 points."
-Don Pepin Garcia
