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Drew Estate Ambrosia: flavour profile and cigars like it

Drew Estate Ambrosia is a medium hand-made cigar. It has a Connecticut Shade / Sumatra (Spice Torpedo) wrapper over Nicaraguan; Mother Earth also includes Honduran filler. Published tasting notes mention clove, cedar, black cherry, cinnamon, black pepper and sweet spice.

On our flavour map it leans toward caramel sweetness, with pepper and spice behind it. If you like it, the closest matches are Drew Estate Deadwood and Macanudo M by Macanudo.

What does Drew Estate Ambrosia taste like?

Cream & nutsCedar & woodEarth & leatherPepper & spiceCocoa & coffeeSweet & caramelFruit & floralHay & herbs
Our flavour map: the published notes, weighted 60%, plus the wrapper style, 40%.
  • clove
  • cedar
  • black cherry
  • cinnamon
  • black pepper
  • sweet spice

How strong is it, and what's in it?

WrapperConnecticut Shade / Sumatra (Spice Torpedo)
BinderNicaraguan
FillerNicaraguan; Mother Earth also includes Honduran
StrengthMedium
Made byDrew Estate (blended by Jonathan Drew), Estelí, Nicaragua
SizesNectar 5x42 · Mother Earth 6x50 · Spice Torpedo 6x54

Strength here means nicotine, which mostly comes from the filler. Wrapper colour is not a strength guide.

On the retailer best-seller lists we track in the United States.

Cigars like Drew Estate Ambrosia

  1. Drew Estate Deadwood56% flavour matchBroadleaf wrapper · MediumMore cocoa and coffee, less pepper and spice, same strength.
  2. Macanudo M by Macanudo51% flavour matchConnecticut shade wrapper · MediumMore cocoa and coffee, less pepper and spice, same strength.
  3. León Jimenes Petit Corona flavoured range49% flavour matchConnecticut shade wrapper · Strength varies by variantMore cream and nuts, less pepper and spice, strength varies by variant.

Matched on eight flavour axes plus body, within one strength step. One cigar per brand.

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