HALFWHEEL Announces that the Drew Estate Undercrown 10 Makes the #1 Cigar on the 2021 Consensus list.

Halfwheel announces that the Drew Estate Undercrown 10 has made #1 cigar of the 2021 Consensus List.

Way back in 2011—at the same time that we were coming up with the idea for halfwheel—Drew Estate released a new line named Undercrown which had an interesting backstory. The story was that Drew Estate would let its rollers smoke cigars for free while they rolled and that the rollers at the company’s factory were smoking too many of Liga Privada cigars at a time when there were already very few available to be sent to retailers.

After being told they had to cut back, the torcedores supposedly came up with their own cigar that incorporated “many of the same rare tobaccos, but of different vintages and primings” as the Liga Privada blend, which Drew Estate put into production and dedicated it to “our worker’s ingenuity, resourcefulness, and passion for a great cigar.”

In the decade since, there have been a host of additions to and variants spawned from the Undercrown line, including Sun Grown and Connecticut-wrapped versions, a cigar release as a collaboration with the online cigar community Cigar Dojo, and even a limited edition version that was the result of a collaboration with Shady Records, Eminem’s music label.

With that many different versions of the blend already produced, it was not exactly a surprise when Drew Estate announced the Undercrown 10 during a live Facebook event in May, which—as the name indicates—was blended and released specifically to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the aforementioned Undercrown brand. Like the original Undercrown, the newest version is covered with a San Andrés wrapper from Mexico, but that is where the two cigars part ways blend-wise. Under the wrapper, the Undercrown 10 incorporates a Connecticut River Valley Broadleaf binder and Nicaraguan fillers; the original blend is made up of a Connecticut River Valley sun-grown Habano binder as well as filler tobaccos from both Brazil and Nicaragua.

“Undercrown 10 offers smokers an experience of Mexican hot chocolate … naturally sweet with hints of raisin and cacao … waves of intense black pepper … along with notes of sun-dried cherries, espresso, woodiness, and earthiness,” said Pedro Gomez, factory ambassador for Drew Estate, in a press release on the company’s website.

As of right now, Drew Estate has announced six Undercrown 10 vitolas, four of which are regular production offerings. As for the other two, the first is the 6 x 46 Undercrown 10 Lonsdale Factory Floor Edition a limited edition that comes packaged in a box with 20 Lonsdale cigars as well as puritos of the individual blend components. In addition, Drew Estate has announced the Undercrown 10 Tuani, a 6 x 52 belicoso event-only release packaged in a two-count box that will be available at events with Gomez.

Check out Halfwheels review of this cigar here.