Drew Estate Cigar Safari

[Mattygukas]

Just wanted to share that a few buddies and I went on the Drew Estate Cigar Safari recently and it was great! The team there treats you like a king and everything is done well. All you can smoke is too much fun...I personally smoked over 40 cigars in 3 1/2 days . The Joya de Nicaragua tour was great and the Drew Estate tour was amazing.

 

It was educational, fun, and worry free! Can’t wait to try my custom blends but they need 90 days down... If you see tickets out there, do it! (Just don’t take mine) Enjoy some pics...I’ll keep it to 20, sorry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[CaptainQuintero]

Wow that's awesome, I don't care where handmade cigars are made, the process is brilliant. I didn't know Joya de Nicaragua were involved in the production of Drew Estate, I'm guessing the cigars are outsourced to them?

[Isaac]

That looks awesome.  Can you tell us about the process from where you obtained the tickets to actually getting down there?

[belmate85]

Was this the trip from last week?  Had a couple smoking buddies (I think 4) from my local B&M in Philadelphia on that trip!  Sounded like a great time.

[Mattygukas]

Wow that's awesome, I don't care where handmade cigars are made, the process is brilliant. I didn't know Joya de Nicaragua were involved in the production of Drew Estate, I'm guessing the cigars are outsourced to them?

Actually Drew Estate is a lot bigger than JDN! They partnered pretty early and are very closely tied. The DE Factory was at least 6 times the size of JDN.



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[Mattygukas]

That looks awesome.  Can you tell us about the process from where you obtained the tickets to actually getting down there?

Sure thing! Sign up on their Cigar Safari site and they will start sending you email updates letting you know when they go on sale. Be ready to buy them the second they are on sale! The flight is lined up through a travel agent they suggest and works out well. The cost is 650ish for the Safari and 650ish for the flight (for where I was coming from) so 1300$ was a no brainer.

Check out there site as they have the itinerary on there. Simply worth every minute. (Between cigars there and the ones that came home, I would estimate a retail value of at least 900


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[Mattygukas]

Was this the trip from last week?  Had a couple smoking buddies (I think 4) from my local B&M in Philadelphia on that trip!  Sounded like a great time.

It was Nov 1st - 4th so they were after us. That said the people we were with were awesome!! Good times by all.


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[CaptainQuintero]

14 minutes ago, Mattygukas said:

 

Actually Drew Estate is a lot bigger than JDN! They partnered pretty early and are very closely tied. The DE Factory was at least 6 times the size of JDN.



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How are they aligned? I know DE make both premium handmade cigars and cheap flavoured things, JdN are more general handmade? Do JdN make certain DE ranges or vice versa?

[Sean3]

Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

[Mattygukas]

How are they aligned? I know DE make both premium handmade cigars and cheap flavoured things, JdN are more general handmade? Do JdN make certain DE ranges or vice versa?

They operate as completely separate companies and the high quality handmade cigars from DE are made by them. They have a specific Liga rollers room much like other factories...best rollers doing the best cigars.

I think they have worked together but I don’t think I saw any DE sticks at Joya. Joya does make cigars for other makers though...Steve Saka for one. (His are good) I’ll post my sites two videos for those who want to watch pic and video collage...showing some rolling videos.


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[Mattygukas]

Below are our summary videos on our YouTube channel. (We will do a full review a little later)

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[dicko]

That looks like a great time indeed!

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[zepp69]

Glad you had  a great time. I am going in April with a buddy. Looking forward to it.

was the food good? Did it give you any problems?

[Mattygukas]

Glad you had  a great time. I am going in April with a buddy. Looking forward to it.
was the food good? Did it give you any problems?

The food was awesome! The only issue for me was slight when I got back and was only because I ate at a restaurant at the airport restaurant...I wasn’t thinking. Nothing crazy. Just only drink bottled water, even to brush your teeth.



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[willzbar]

I've been there twice, even if your not a DE fan it's still a great time. Very informative, you learn a lot about Nicaragua and their culture and history. Well worth the money.

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[Cigar Surgeon]

On 11/21/2017 at 6:27 PM, CaptainQuintero said:

How are they aligned? I know DE make both premium handmade cigars and cheap flavoured things, JdN are more general handmade? Do JdN make certain DE ranges or vice versa?

Joya and DE have a relationship going back many years now. DE does distribution and marketing for Joya in the US. 

Joya is the oldest factory in Nicaragua and DE now produces the most cigars in Nicaragua. 

[PaulP]

Swisher International bought DE about three years ago.  Did you see any Swisher influence or have they left DE on their own?

[Cigar Surgeon]

21 hours ago, PaulP said:

Swisher International bought DE about three years ago.  Did you see any Swisher influence or have they left DE on their own?

I think I've been down to DE 5 or 6 times since Swisher bought them out. I haven't picked up on any changes to the fundamental culture of the company.