Miami, FL – Today, Drew Estate announced their newest brand,
“Florida Sun Grown”. This new brand features tobacco grown just outside of
Orlando, Florida, in partnership with Jeff Borysiewicz, owner of Corona Cigar
Co.
The new Florida Sun Grown cigar line will feature four new
sizes, listed below:
·
Robusto (5 x 54), MSRP $230/20ct box
·
Toro (6 x 52), MSRP $260/20ct box
·
Belicoso (6 ½ x 54), MSRP $280/20ct box
·
Sixty (6 x 60), MSRP $300/20ct box
The FSG blend features Florida Sun Grown tobacco as an
accent tobacco, which adds nuance and depth to the blend, but also features
select Nicaraguan fillers. The binder is a Habano seed tobacco from Honduras
and the cigar is finished off with a lush Brazilian wrapper.

There will also be a Limited Edition Trunk-Pressed Toro (6 x
54) with an MSRP of $150/10ct box. This limited edition size will feature its
own unique blend, which utilizes a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, Mexican
binder, and Florida Sungrown filler tobacco, along with fillers from Nicaragua
and Honduras.
The Florida Sun Grown line was blended by Drew Estate Master
Blender Willy Herrera over the course of the past two years, during which Drew
Estate has been fermenting and processing the new Sun Grown tobaccos. When
asked about the new tobacco, Willy stated that, “it was a unique challenge
working with the Florida Sun Grown tobacco. It was something completely new to
me, and it took me numerous blends to figure out how to incorporate it into a
blend I really loved. The final blend we’ve come up with is one I’m extremely
excited about, and I can’t wait to see what everyone thinks of this special new
tobacco.”
When asked about his experience growing this tobacco, Jeff
Borysiewicz, owner of Corona Cigar Co, said that, “this has been one of the
most difficult challenges of my life. Tobacco growing is just as much an art as
it is a science, and growing tobacco in this area of Florida was totally
uncharted territory. It took a lot of trial and error to get it to where it is
today, but we couldn’t be happier with the way it’s smoking.”
Drew Estate Founder Jonathan Drew reflected on his history
with Borysiewicz: "My first memorable experience with Jeff Borysiewicz
was at 1am in the morning inside the DE factory in EstelÃ, Nicaragua.
We spoke until 3am, while DE's first seven packaging girls and myself
prepared for the launch of ‘NATURAL Cigars by Drew Estate’. It must have
been 2000.”
“The next morning, after sleeping only a few hours, I drove
a rented car four hours to Managua on that pothole crater-ridden Pan American
Highway just to bring Jeff some samples of what would later become ‘Industrial
Press Cigars’. Friendship founded, boom, for life.
Here we are, now 17 years later and ready to make magic
happen again. Florida Barn Smoker and the FSG Label bring me back to the
earliest days when we had nothing but a dream."

The new Florida Sun Grown line will hit store shelves in
June of 2016, and will be available exclusively at Corona Cigar Co. To be among
the first to try the new Florida Sun Grown blends, attend the Florida Barn
Smoker on June 4
th, 2016 (
http://barnsmoker.com).
About Drew Estate
Founded in New York City in 1996, Drew Estate has become one
of the fastest growing tobacco companies in the world. Under their mantra “The
Rebirth of Cigars”TM, Drew Estate has led the “Boutique Cigar” movement by
innovating new elements to the tobacco industry with their unique tobaccos and
blending styles that have attracted new and traditional cigar enthusiasts. In
their Gran Fabrica Drew Estate, the Nicaraguan headquarters, Drew Estate
produces a variety of brands such as ACID, Herrera EstelÃ, Herrera EstelÃ
Norteño, Kentucky Fired Cured, Liga Privada, MUWAT, Natural by Drew Estate,
Nica Rustica, Pappy Van Winkle Barrel Fermented Cigars, Tabak Especial,
Undercrown, Florida Sun Grown, and Java by Drew Estate.