Drew Estate Factory Smokes CT Shade Cigarillos (Box of 50)

• Length: 127mm
• Gauge: 54
• Strength: Mild to Medium
• Wrapper: Connecticut Shade
• Binder: Indonesian
• Filler: Nicaraguan & Indonesian

The Drew Estate Factory Smokes CT Shade Cigarillos are the sort of everyday smokes that quietly earn a permanent place in the humidor.

Handmade in Nicaragua at La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate, these Connecticut Shade cigarillos are smooth, creamy and remarkably well behaved for the money. Nothing harsh, nothing aggressive — just an easy, satisfying smoke with enough flavour to keep you interested from first light to last draw.

The pale Connecticut Shade wrapper gives them a mellow profile with notes of cream, cedar, toasted nuts and soft coffee, alongside that gentle sweetness you only really get from a decent shade-grown wrapper leaf.

They’ve also got that lovely “fresh humidor” aroma about them once the box is open. Warm tobacco, cedar wood and a faint buttery sweetness that makes you immediately think, “Right… I’ll just have one.”

Then another mysteriously vanishes later in the afternoon.

Because they’re cigarillos, they’re ideal when you haven’t got time for a full-sized cigar but still want something handmade and properly satisfying. About twenty minutes or so is enough to enjoy one without feeling rushed.

And with a full box of 50, you can actually smoke them regularly without having to start budgeting like the Treasury.

Smooth, reliable and dangerously easy to keep reaching for.