Liga Privada's rating barely tracks its price. The T52 Robusto is rated 4.8 at $9.58; the Feral Flying Pig is rated 4.9 at $29.17. That is three times the money for a tenth of a rating point.
The Liga Privada brand page carries 20 cigars from $4.80 to $29.17, and the Drew Estate brand page carries 3 cigars from $9.58 to $17.00. All 23 of those records list both a rating and a price, and the median one costs $14.33.
Only two of the 23 reach the top rating of 4.9, and the cheaper of the two costs $20.83. Meanwhile $9.58 buys a 4.8 twice over, once in the T52 line and once in the No. 9 line. Spending more here buys you a scarcer shape and a harder cigar to find. It does not reliably buy you a better score.
Here are all 12, ranked by rating and then by price, with what each one is actually for.
Price vs. rating, all 23 Liga Privada and Drew Estate cigars
Prices spread 6.1× across the set, $4.80 to $29.17, while every rating sits inside a 0.70-point band (4.20 to 4.90). $9.58 buys 4.80; $29.17 buys 4.90. That is 3.0× the price for 0.10 of a rating point.
The 12 Best Liga Privada and Drew Estate Cigars, Ranked
Ranked by catalog rating, then by price ascending, with one cigar drawn from each line before the list doubles back. Every price is the catalog price for a single cigar.
1. Liga Privada No. 9 Flying Pig
- Rating: 4.9
- Price: $20.83
- Line: Liga Privada No. 9
- Size: 4 x 60, full strength, Connecticut Broadleaf Oscuro wrapper
The No. 9 Flying Pig is rated 4.9 at $20.83. Two cigars in this set reach 4.9 and this is the cheaper of them, by $8.34. It is also the shape the line is known for: 4 inches on a 60 ring gauge, a short fat perfecto with a pigtail cap, which is a lot of smoke in a body you can finish inside an hour.
Buy it if: you want the top rating in the set and you would rather not pay $29.17 for it.
2. Liga Privada Feral Flying Pig
- Rating: 4.9
- Price: $29.17
- Line: Other Drew Estate
- Size: 3.88 x 60, full strength, Connecticut Broadleaf Oscuro wrapper
The Feral Flying Pig is rated 4.9 at $29.17. Nothing in either brand costs more. It shares its wrapper, its strength and its 60 ring gauge with the No. 9 Flying Pig above, runs 0.12 inches shorter, and scores exactly the same.
Buy it if: you want this specific release. On score alone you are paying $8.34 for the name.
3. Liga Privada T52 Robusto
- Rating: 4.8
- Price: $9.58
- Line: Liga Privada T52
- Size: 5.5 x 52, full strength, Connecticut Habano wrapper
The T52 Robusto is rated 4.8 at $9.58. This is the value story of both brands in a single record: the T52 line tops out at 4.8, and it hits that ceiling at the cheapest price in the line. The other six T52s all cost more and none of them scores higher.
Buy it if: you want the most rating per dollar here. Of everything on this page, this is the one to buy by the box.
4. Liga Privada No. 9 Robusto
- Rating: 4.8
- Price: $9.58
- Line: Liga Privada No. 9
- Size: 5.5 x 52, full strength, Connecticut Broadleaf Oscuro wrapper
The No. 9 Robusto is rated 4.8 at $9.58. Same price, same 5.5 x 52 size and same score as the T52 Robusto above, with the other wrapper on it. That makes these two the cleanest head-to-head in the catalog between Liga Privada's Broadleaf half and its Habano half.
Buy it if: you want to taste what the wrapper changes and nothing else. Buy one of each.
5. Liga Privada No. 9 Toro
- Rating: 4.8
- Price: $10.00
- Line: Liga Privada No. 9
- Size: 6 x 52, full strength, Connecticut Broadleaf Oscuro wrapper
The No. 9 Toro is rated 4.8 at $10.00. Forty-two cents more than the Robusto buys half an inch on the same ring gauge, at the same rating. That is the most predictable trade in the line.
Buy it if: the Robusto ends before you want it to.
6. Liga Privada T52 Belicoso
- Rating: 4.8
- Price: $10.00
- Line: Liga Privada T52
- Size: 6.13 x 54, full strength, Connecticut Habano wrapper
The T52 Belicoso is rated 4.8 at $10.00. It is the largest cigar in the set that still scores 4.8, longer and thicker than either Robusto, and the tapered head is the reason to pick it over the T52 Robusto: a narrower opening concentrates the draw.
Buy it if: you want the T52 blend for an evening rather than an hour.
7. Liga Privada T52 Corona Viva
- Rating: 4.75
- Price: $16.25
- Line: Liga Privada T52
- Size: 6 x 46, medium-full strength, U.S.A./Connecticut Habano wrapper
The T52 Corona Viva is rated 4.75 at $16.25. At a 46 ring gauge it is the thinnest T52 in the set, and it is one of only two T52 records the catalog lists as medium-full rather than full.
Buy it if: big ring gauges blunt the flavor for you and you want the T52 at a narrower width.
8. Liga Privada No. 9 Corona Doble
- Rating: 4.7
- Price: $16.70
- Line: Liga Privada No. 9
- Size: 7 x 54, full strength, U.S.A. Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper
The No. 9 Corona Doble is rated 4.7 at $16.70. It is the longest cigar in this ranking, and it is the better half of a direct pair: the T52 Corona Doble is the same 7 x 54 shape, costs $20.25 and is rated 4.55. The Broadleaf version is cheaper and better rated.
Buy it if: you want the longest sit here and you have already decided on Broadleaf over Habano.
9. Undercrown Robusto
- Rating: 4.6
- Price: $5.20
- Line: Undercrown
- Size: 5 x 54, medium strength, Mexican San Andres wrapper
The Undercrown Robusto is rated 4.6 at $5.20. This is the budget way in. Only two records in the whole set cost under $9.00 and this is the better rated of the two, and it is the only medium-strength cigar in the ranking.
Buy it if: you want the factory's house style at a price you can smoke on a Tuesday.
10. Liga Privada No. 9 Short Panetela
- Rating: 4.6
- Price: $10.00
- Line: Liga Privada No. 9
- Size: 4.5 x 40, medium-full strength, U.S.A. Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper
The No. 9 Short Panetela is rated 4.6 at $10.00. At a 40 ring gauge it is the thinnest No. 9 in the set and one of the shortest cigars here at 4.5 inches. Less wrapper against more filler is a real change in the blend, not just a smaller cigar.
Buy it if: you have half an hour rather than two, and you still want the No. 9 tobacco.
11. Drew Estate Herrera Esteli Lounge Exclusive Toro
- Rating: 4.6
- Price: $17.00
- Line: Herrera Estelí
- Size: 6 x 52, medium-full strength, Ecuador Habano wrapper
The Herrera Estelí Lounge Exclusive Toro is rated 4.6 at $17.00. It is the only Herrera Estelí record in the catalog and the only Ecuadorian wrapper in this ranking; every other cigar on the list is wrapped in leaf grown in the United States or Mexico.
Buy it if: you want a Drew Estate that is not built on Connecticut Broadleaf.
12. Liga Privada Único Serie Feral Flying Pig
- Rating: 4.55
- Price: $17.80
- Line: Único Serie
- Size: 5.38 x 60, medium-full strength, U.S.A. Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper
The Único Serie Feral Flying Pig is rated 4.55 at $17.80. Read the name carefully, because this is not the No. 2 Feral Flying Pig, which is rated 4.9 at $29.17. The Único Serie version costs $11.37 less, scores 0.35 lower, and is a longer cigar on the same 60 ring.
Buy it if: you want a Único Serie and the shape matters more to you than the score. The other Único Serie record, the L-40, is $20.00 at the same 4.55.
What to Buy at Your Budget
- Under $6: the Undercrown Robusto is rated 4.6 at $5.20. Exactly one record in the set is cheaper and it scores lower.
- Under $10: the T52 Robusto is rated 4.8 at $9.58, and the No. 9 Robusto is rated 4.8 at $9.58. Nothing in the set scores higher for less.
- $10 to $20: the No. 9 Toro is rated 4.8 at $10.00, and the T52 Belicoso is rated 4.8 at $10.00. Below $20.83 there is nothing rated higher than 4.8 to buy.
- $20 and up: the No. 9 Flying Pig is rated 4.9 at $20.83. It is the cheapest 4.9 either brand makes.
The median record here costs $14.33, so three of those four picks sit below the middle of the catalog.
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Find your Liga Privada
All 23 Liga Privada and Drew Estate cigars in our catalog, from $4.80 to $29.17, median $14.33. Set your ceiling and it tells you the best one you can actually buy.
The best Drew Estate you can buy for $14.50 is Liga Privada No. 9 Robusto at 4.8.
12 cigars at or under $14.50. Top 6 shown.
- Liga Privada No. 9 Robusto
- Liga Privada T52 Robusto
- Liga Privada No. 9 Toro
- Liga Privada T52 Belicoso
- Undercrown Robusto
- Liga Privada No. 9 Short Panetela
Stretch to $20.83 — $6.33 over your ceiling — and Liga Privada No. 9 Flying Pig takes you to 4.9.
The Six Lines, and Which One You Want
| Line | Cigars | Price range | Top rating | Cheapest at that rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liga Privada No. 9 | 7 | $9.58-$20.83 | 4.9 | $20.83 |
| Liga Privada T52 | 7 | $9.58-$20.25 | 4.8 | $9.58 |
| Other Drew Estate | 4 | $9.58-$29.17 | 4.9 | $29.17 |
| Undercrown | 2 | $4.80-$5.20 | 4.6 | $5.20 |
| Único Serie | 2 | $17.80-$20.00 | 4.55 | $17.80 |
| Herrera Estelí | 1 | $17.00 | 4.6 | $17.00 |
Look at the last column. Two lines reach 4.9, and what separates them is what you pay to get there: $20.83 in the No. 9, $29.17 in the Drew Estate bucket. The T52 never reaches 4.9 at all, but it reaches its own ceiling at $9.58.
No. 9 and T52 are evenly matched on paper — seven records apiece, both starting at $9.58 — and the wrapper is what tells them apart. Every one of the seven No. 9 records carries a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. Every one of the seven T52 records carries a Habano wrapper. Three of the No. 9 records name an Oscuro shade of that Broadleaf.
Undercrown is the cheap way in. Two Undercrown records sit inside the Liga Privada catalog at $4.80 and $5.20, and the separate Undercrown brand page carries 16 cigars from $4.80 to $15.00, topping out at 4.7.
Único Serie is small-batch shapes, not a better blend. Both records are rated 4.55, at $17.80 and $20.00 — under the No. 9's ceiling and under the T52's. The Único names that circulate hardest, the Dirty Rat and the UF-13, are allocation releases we do not carry at all.
Other Drew Estate is a bucket, not a line. It holds the widest spread on this page, $9.58 to $29.17 and 4.2 to 4.9, because it mixes the top of the range with the infused end of the factory. The Tabak Especial Dulce Robusto is rated 4.2 at $9.58, the lowest rating in the set. That is the same $9.58 that buys the 4.8 T52 Robusto.
What Liga Privada Actually Is
Liga Privada means "private blend", and that is literally what it was. Jonathan Drew blended it for himself and a small circle at Drew Estate's factory in Estelí, Nicaragua, with no intention of selling it. It reached the market because enough people smoked one and asked for a box. The catalog above still has that shape: few lines, few sizes, and prices that start above the rest of the factory's output.
Drew Estate built the business on the infused ACID line before any of this existed, which is why the brand still confuses people. The same company makes the sweetened Tabak Especial and the full-strength Broadleaf No. 9, and on this page they cost the same $9.58.
What separates the two flagship lines is the wrapper, and the catalog is unanimous about it: Connecticut Broadleaf on every No. 9, Habano on every T52. Broadleaf is the darker, oilier, thicker leaf, and it is why the No. 9 reads sweet and heavy. The Habano leaf on the T52 pushes the same kind of filler toward pepper and cedar instead. If you want the long version of that difference, read Broadleaf versus maduro and the maduro wrapper guide.
Undercrown exists because of Liga Privada rather than beside it: it started as the blend the factory's rollers put together for themselves from tobacco Liga Privada production left behind, and it became its own brand once people outside the factory started asking for it.
Who it suits. This is a full-strength catalog. Seven of the top eight cigars in the ranking are listed at full strength and both 4.9s are full. If mild Connecticut-shade cigars are what you normally smoke, start at No. 9 on this list and not at No. 1. If you already smoke full-bodied cigars, the No. 9 Robusto at $9.58 is the cheapest way in that still scores 4.8.
More reading: Liga Privada No. 9 review · Best maduro cigars 2026 · Best premium cigars over $20 · Best cigars under $10
Which Liga Privada cigar is the best?
Two tie for the top rating of 4.9: the No. 9 Flying Pig at $20.83 and the Feral Flying Pig at $29.17. If you want the best score for the least money instead, the T52 Robusto and the No. 9 Robusto are both rated 4.8 at $9.58, a tenth of a point off the top for less than half the price of the cheaper 4.9.
What is the difference between Liga Privada No. 9 and T52?
The wrapper. All seven No. 9 records carry a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper and all seven T52 records carry a Habano wrapper. Broadleaf is the darker, sweeter leaf; Habano is the spicier one. Both lines hold seven cigars, both start at $9.58, and both are mostly full strength. The T52 reaches its top rating of 4.8 at that $9.58 starting price; the No. 9 needs $20.83 to reach its 4.9.
What is Undercrown, and how does it relate to Liga Privada?
Undercrown started as the blend Drew Estate's rollers made for themselves out of tobacco left over from Liga Privada production, and it is now its own brand. Two Undercrown records sit inside the Liga Privada catalog at $4.80 and $5.20, and the Undercrown brand page carries 16 more from $4.80 to $15.00, topping out at a 4.7. It is not a Liga Privada and it does not score like one, but it is the cheapest way to smoke the same factory's house style.
Are Liga Privada cigars worth the price?
At $10.00 and under, yes. Four cigars in this set cost $10.00 or less and are rated 4.8, within a tenth of a point of the highest rating either brand reaches. Above that the curve flattens: the median record costs $14.33, and what $29.17 buys over $9.58 is 0.1 of a rating point and a shape that is hard to find.