Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust

Box Count: 20

Size: 6×48

Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Dominican Republic/Nicaraguan

Strength: Medium – Full

At its core, it remains our quintessential Mi Querida blend with its earthy, sweet broadleaf notes, but with the incorporation of a couple refinements. The capa has been switched from the traditional Connecticut Broadleaf Mediums to the rarer No. 1 Dark corona leaves plus a unique, high octane ligero grown in the Dominican Republic has also been introduced into the liga. The resulting cigar retains its inherent sweet loam and chocolate characteristics, yet delivers a significantly fuller bodied smoking experience.

Box Count: 7

Size: 7×38

Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Ecuador Habano
Binder: Mexican San Andres
Filler: Nicaraguan

Strength: Medium – Full

The #NLMTHA Lancero was one of my toughest challenges given that I am very vocal in my lack of appreciation for the lancero format. As a ligador, I have never had a lancero that I didn’t feel I could make better if I were to blend the same in a slightly wider format. Plus there are the inherent and arduous factory challenges to ensure the draw is ideal in such a long, skinny vitola. And finally there is the blunt fact that there is a very limited market for lanceros. All that being said, the success of the last lancero I blended, the L40, has left me inundated with requests for years from “cigar geeks” requesting I create another of these pencil shaped smokes. So here it is… Elegant, sophisticated and refined.

Box Count: 7

Size: 6×52

Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Habano 2000 Sungrown
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, USA Connecticut

Strength: Medium – Full

The “Unstolen Valor” is not like any of the previous Muestra de Saka ligas as I did not create it, rather it is the work product of Sr. Raul Disla, Master Cigar Maker at NACSA, resulting from a personal challenge I issued him a few years ago to create a “personal liga”. I find this blend to be a journey of spice – peppercorns to be precise. It begins with the subtle aromatic tastes of the green peppercorn with that fresh, tangy back note followed by the flavors of the more potent, complex and pungent Tellicherry black pepper berry to finally finish with the more piquant, racier notes exhibited within white peppercorns. Spicy cigars are rather common, but what impressed my palate is how fluid the transitions occur plus how he managed to tame their biting nature that not only allows the smoker to detect these distinctly different pepper notes, but to also never overwhelm the smoker’s palate with sharpness. Simultaneously the blend offers a harmonious cedar-like sweetness that I found captivating. It is a very deft, balanced execution of style of cigar that is often done a great disservice by most makers.

Box Count: 25

Size: 6×52

Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Ecuadorian Habano
Binder: Mexican San Andres
Filler: Nicaragua/USA

Strength: Medium Plus – Full

A lush liga with a creamy core laced with abundant notes of cedar, cocoa and café, which is punctuated by a tellicherry peppercorn retrohale. Pleasing to the nose and providing the smoker a delightfully sweet, lingering finish.

Box Count: 10

Size: 6×52

Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf
Binder: Mexican San Andres
Filler: Nicaraguan

Strength: Medium

Earthy with coffee notes and a nice punch of spice. A robust, durable cigar that is perfect for any environment.

Size: 6.3×60

Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut
Binder: Mexican Matacapan Negro de Temporal
Filler: Nicaraguan

Strength: Mild

A luxurious Connecticut shade wrapper grown under natural cloud cover in Ecuador sits atop a Mexican Matacapan Negro de Temporal binder, with a carefully selected Nicaraguan filler blend. The flavors are all classic Connecticut, with extra complexity and refinement that can only come from the high-quality ingredients hand-selected by Saka himself.

Size: 6×52

The world’s first luxury pipe tobacco cigar!

A quintessential mix of Burley and Turkish leaf with a generous portion of Cypriot Latakia pressed cake paired with Nicaraguan cigar tobaccos.  Rich and decadent while not being overpowering, this is a Latakia-Lover’s puro worthy of being smoked in an English Manor House beside the fire.

Strength: Medium