Blackened Cigars by Drew Estate S84 - Robusto

Blackened Cigars by Drew Estate S84 Shade to Black is a Connecticut-wrapped follow-up to the popular M81 Maduro. A creamy, smooth, and well-balanced smoke with an underlying sweetness and layered notes of spice and coffee. An Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapper embraces a rich blend of USA Connecticut Broadleaf binder and Nicaraguan and Pennsylvania Broadleaf Maduro fillers.

Part of the “Blackened” collaboration between James Hetfield of Metallica, master distiller Rob Dietrich, and Drew Estate founder Jonathan Drew, the S84 draws its name from Metallica’s Ride the Lightning era and the song “Fade to Black.”

• Size: 5"
• Ring Gauge: 50
• Strength: Medium
• Country: Nicaragua 
• Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut
• Filler: Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade
• Binder: US Connecticut Broadfeaf

Drew Estate cigars

Drew Estate was at first set up to fail, with little to know money or backing Jonathan Drew and Marvin Samel started a 16 square foot retail Kiosk in the World Trade Center in New York city. Not to take anything cautiously in 1998 Jonathan Drew took a leap of face and moved to Esteli in Nicaragua. Here he had hopes of reinvigorating the cigar world. With a handful of rollers and distinct lack of Capital. In NY Marvin was hard at work begging for finance from every source open to him; Parents, cousins, friends even shady people. Over time there began a trickle of new cigar blends from Esteli made there way to the Kiosk in NY and when these strange unknown cigars began appearing in the hands of influential business man and celebrities the brand jumped in popularity. Today the roll some of The finest non Cuban cigars made and posses the grandest Cigar factory in Central America.