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Drew Estate Deadwood: flavour profile and cigars like it

Drew Estate Deadwood is a medium hand-made cigar. It has a Maduro (Sweet Jane: Connecticut Broadleaf; Leather Rose: Brazilian Maduro) wrapper over Nicaraguan filler. Published tasting notes mention coffee, cedar, chocolate, sweetness and black pepper.

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

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What does Drew Estate Deadwood taste like?

Cream & nutsCedar & woodEarth & leatherPepper & spiceCocoa & coffeeSweet & caramelFruit & floralHay & herbs
Our flavour map: the published notes, weighted 60%, plus the wrapper style, 40%.
  • coffee
  • cedar
  • chocolate
  • sweetness
  • black pepper

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

WrapperMaduro (Sweet Jane: Connecticut Broadleaf; Leather Rose: Brazilian Maduro)
BinderNot disclosed by maker (Leather Rose: Indonesian per zigarren.zone)
FillerNicaraguan
StrengthMedium
Made byDrew Estate (La Gran Fabrica, Estelí, Nicaragua)
SizesCorona 5x46 (Sweet Jane) · Robusto 5x54 (Fat Bottom Betty) · Toro 6x50 (Fat Bottom Betty) · Gordito 6x60 (Fat Bottom Betty) · Torpedo 5x54 (Leather Rose) · Petite Corona 4x43 (Leather Rose)

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

What smokers and critics say

Smokers like: sweet, smooth smoke, even burn and chocolate sweetness.

Some say: wrapper cracks on some and can go out.

Scores as published by the retailer or magazine. Themes are our summary of the reviews, not quotes. We don't score cigars ourselves.

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

Cigars like Drew Estate Deadwood

  1. Macanudo M by Macanudo62% flavour matchConnecticut shade wrapper · MediumMore caramel sweetness, less cocoa and coffee, same strength.
  2. Drew Estate Ambrosia56% flavour matchSumatra wrapper · MediumMore pepper and spice, less cocoa and coffee, same strength.
  3. León Jimenes Petit Corona flavoured range44% flavour matchConnecticut shade wrapper · Strength varies by variantMore cream and nuts, less cocoa and coffee, strength varies by variant.

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

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