Two years after Drew Estate built an Undercrown 10 exclusive for Smoke Inn, the South Florida retailer has a sequel.
Undercrown 10 Ming 2.0 started landing at Smoke Inn this week, halfwheel reported. It is a 5 x 54 cigar packed in 10-count boxes, priced at $15 each or $150 a box, and made at La Gran Fábrica Drew Estate in Estelí, Nicaragua. halfwheel lists a Nov. 10, 2026 release date and classifies it as a limited edition.
The name is personal. “Ming” is the nickname Jonathan Drew Sann of Drew Estate gave Abe Dababneh, Smoke Inn’s founder. The original Ming arrived in 2024 as a shop exclusive. This is the follow-up, not a completely new idea, and the change that matters is in the filler.
What Changed From the 2024 Ming
According to halfwheel, Ming 2.0 is very similar to the original, with one difference: it uses the standard Undercrown 10 blend. The 2024 version was described as getting some added Pennsylvania tobacco in the filler.
The standard Undercrown 10 recipe, as listed with this release, is a Mexican San Andrés wrapper, a U.S. Connecticut Broadleaf binder, and a Nicaraguan filler. That is the familiar 10th-anniversary Undercrown profile, now in a 5 x 54 vitola made for one retailer. If you already like Undercrown 10, this is a shape and a shop exclusive built around that blend, not a new family of flavors.
A press release from Smoke Inn, cited by halfwheel, describes Ming 2.0 as medium-full, with flavors of earth, black pepper, sun-dried cherries and Mexican hot chocolate. That is the retailer’s language, not a review. We have not smoked the 2.0 yet, so we will leave the tasting notes where they belong: attributed, and untested by us.
Shop exclusives like this are how a lot of limited Drew Estate cigars actually reach smokers. They do not always get a national launch, and they do not always come back. The fact that Ming has a second edition, two years later, tells you the first one did enough business, or enough goodwill, to earn another run. The blend tweak also suggests Drew Estate was willing to simplify it back toward the core Undercrown 10 rather than keep the Pennsylvania filler as a permanent twist.
How It Fits the Rest of the Drew Estate Week
Ming 2.0 is the second Drew Estate cigar story of the week that is about access as much as it is about tobacco. Liga Privada Crush’D Velvet just debuted as an event-only Único Serie cigar at Corona Cigar Co. and the Florida Barn Smoker. Ming 2.0 is a store exclusive at Smoke Inn. Different lines, different doors, same idea: you have to know where to stand.
There is also a longer Drew Estate headline in the background. Drew Estate Dominicana has joined ProCigar as the group’s 12th active member, ahead of a Santiago factory that is still targeting mid to late 2027 for full production. Ming 2.0 is not a Dominican cigar. It is an Estelí Undercrown, and it belongs to the Nicaragua-made catalog that is not moving. We mention the membership only because it is the company’s other piece of news right now, not because this cigar is part of that project.
If you are already shopping limited releases for the holidays, this is a narrowly available one: a single retailer, a known blend, a slightly different recipe than the 2024 original, and a price that sits in everyday Undercrown 10 territory rather than Liga event-cigar territory. Our broader look at holiday cigars is still a useful companion if you are building a list. Ming 2.0 just happens to be a shop-specific add-on, not a widely distributed gift box.
Undercrown 10 Ming 2.0 at a Glance
- Line: Undercrown 10, Smoke Inn exclusive
- Size: 5 x 54
- Wrapper: Mexico (San Andrés)
- Binder: U.S.A. (Connecticut Broadleaf)
- Filler: Nicaragua (standard Undercrown 10 blend; the 2024 Ming included added Pennsylvania filler)
- Factory: La Gran Fábrica Drew Estate, Estelí, Nicaragua
- Packaging: 10-count boxes
- Price: $15 per cigar; $150 per box
- Strength, per Smoke Inn: medium-full
- Status: Limited edition, released Nov. 10, 2026
The Cigar Guys’ Take
A named exclusive that comes back two years later is a compliment to the shop and to the first cigar. The change Drew Estate made is also easy to understand: Ming 2.0 is Undercrown 10 in a 5 x 54, without the extra Pennsylvania leaf. If you still have a 2024 Ming, that is a clean side-by-side. If you never had the original, this is a more direct look at the core blend in a size you will not find in every Undercrown 10 box.
The only catch is the door. It is a Smoke Inn cigar. That is the point of an exclusive, and it is also why these things disappear when the allocation does. If Ming is your nickname for Abe, or Undercrown 10 is already in your rotation, this is the one to call the shop about before it is a 2024 memory again.
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Sources: halfwheel: Undercrown 10 Ming 2.0 Lands at Smoke Inn (Nov. 10, 2026)
