Liga Privada Papas Fritas – If you love good quality leaf, but are short on time, this is the cigar for you. Fritas, (named after French Fries), from Drew Estate manages to pack a quality, flavourful smoke into a shorter stick. This Petit Corona is comprised of mix filler made from the tobacco offcuts/trimmings from the Liga Privada brand and wrapped in Brazilian Mata Fina binder and Broadleaf wrapper – combined to make a very fine blend. 
The wrapper is a little oily and rough to the touch. The cold draw offers pleasantly surprising notes of black tea and herbs.
What I love about this cigar is the earthy flavours that permeated the tobacco from first to last – think wet soil, woody, organic, damp farmyard and loamy.
Lit, the first third establishes the earthy profile. The smoke is thick and comes easily.
The earthiness dies off a bit during second third, to be replaced by coffee and leather.
Sweet tobacco comes home strong on the final portion. A nutty, smoked wood character, and more earthiness at the end – I smoked this right down to the nub.
A delicious, reasonably complex, medium-bodied cigar. Enjoy after dinner, I suggest pairing with a peated scotch whisky. The smoked meat and earthy flavour of Ardbeg marries beautifully with the character of this cigar.
Size: Petite Corona 4.5″ x 44 ring gauge
Origin: Nicaragua
Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf
Binder: Brazilian Mata Fina
Filler: Nicaraguan
Body: Medium
Flavour: Earthy, freshly turned soil, sweet tobacco, herbal
Written by Jared Brown
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