Herrera Esteli Habano delivers a medium to full-bodied profile featuring crisp, clean notes of spices, cedar, cream, and roasted nuts as the backbone, with occasional hints of white pepper and semi-sweet vanilla weaving masterfully throughout. Initial puffs foreshadow a medium-bodied profile, but the slow burn begins to unveil a different story, as it inches toward a medium to full-bodied crescendo. This handmade of the highest caliber has earned multiple 93-ratings, a well-deserved 94-rating as well as #8 Cigar of 2014 and #15 Cigar of 2021, with Herrera Esteli Habano earning a 93-point rating and a 'Top 25' ranking from Cigar Aficionado in 2021. The blend features an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper embracing a Honduran binder and Nicaraguan fillers, handcrafted in a series of popular formats. All of the Herrera Estelis are rolled in the Entubado style, where the tobacco in the filler is rolled into tubes inside the binder, allowing more equal distribution of air when drawing on the cigar. It is easily the most difficult way to roll a cigar and very few cigars are rolled this way. Master blender Willy Herrera moved to Drew Estate's manufacturing city of Estelí, Nicaragua and worked the production floor day-in and day-out for a full year, working hand-in-hand with the other cigar rollers at La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate from 7AM to 3PM every day, adopting the 'Drew Estate Way' into his thinking and process development. The cigar is highly representative of Cuban cigars of old, delivering flavors in such a velvety fashion the power is beautifully masked. It's got some oomph, but the flavors are delivered in such a velvety fashion the power is beautifully masked. If the Liga Privada series is a cup of black coffee, Herrera Esteli is without a doubt the "with cream" option.