Nica Rustica
A Drew Estate line handmade in Estelí with Broadleaf and Shade blends
- Family
- Drew Estate
- Made in
- Nicaragua
- Factory
- La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate, Estelí, Nicaragua
- Lines here
- 2
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The house
The story of Nica Rustica
Nica Rustica is a Drew Estate cigar line conceived as a tribute to the people of Estelí, Nicaragua, the home of La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate.
The line’s packaging and artwork were hand-painted by Richard “Dog” Diaz, lead artist at Drew Estate’s Subculture Studios. The imagery celebrates Estelí and its residents.
The original blend was subsequently named Nica Rustica Broadleaf without changing its tobacco composition. Nica Rustica Shade offers a milder expression built around an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapper.
Craft
How they make them
Nica Rustica cigars are handmade in Estelí with long-filler tobaccos. Broadleaf uses a Connecticut River Valley Broadleaf Medium wrapper, Mexican San Andrés Negro binder, and Nicaraguan fillers from Estelí and Jalapa. Shade pairs an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapper with a Mexican binder and long fillers from Nicaragua, the United States, and the Dominican Republic.
Details
Things most people don't know
- Tribute to Estelí
- Nica Rustica was founded upon a message of tribute to the people of Estelí, Nicaragua.
- Hand-painted artwork
- The packaging artwork was hand-painted by Subculture Studios lead artist Richard “Dog” Diaz.
- Unchanged blend
- Renaming the original cigar Nica Rustica Broadleaf did not change its blend.
- Regional fillers
- Broadleaf uses Nicaraguan filler tobaccos grown in Estelí and Jalapa.
- Four-country Shade blend
- Shade combines tobacco from Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, the United States and the Dominican Republic.
In the humidor
Nica Rustica up close
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