Today, we continue the reveal of the 2024 Smoke Inn Hanukkah Box with the cigar for day 5 of the Festival of Lights. Warning: spoiler alert.
Like Smoke Inn’s Advent Calendar, a different cigar will be revealed each day for the eight days of Hanukkah. Much like lighting a candle on the menorah for each night of Hanukkah, each “candle” box inside the large Hanukkah box will contain a cigar. The ninth candle of the menorah, known as the Shamash, is used to light the other candles on the menorah. Following that pattern, Smoke Inn’s Hanukkah box contains nine candle boxes – eight representing the eight nights of Hanukkah and one for the Shamash.
Notably, there is one big difference between the Smoke Inn Hanukkah Box and the Smoke Inn Advent Calendar. The Advent Calendar focuses on more commercially available cigars, while the Hanukkah Box focuses on rare cigars with limited production.
Today’s reveal is the Sin Compromiso Paladin de Saka by Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust. If you have followed Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust and the career of its owner/blender Steve Saka, you know that doing offshoot blends based on existing lines is nothing new for him. In the case of the Paladin de Saka, it is an extension of the Sin Compromiso line. With this blend, Saka aimed to give Sin Compromiso increased robustness while maintaining smoothness. Paladin de Saka earned Cigar Coop’s #2 Cigar of the Year award for 2022.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Wrapper: San Andrés Negro “Cultivo Tonto”
- Binder: Hybridized Ecuador Habano “Thin Ligero”
- Filler: Independent Plantation Grown Nicaraguan, Pennsylvania Seedleaf
- Country of Origin: Nicaragua
- Factory: Fábrica de Tabacos Joya de Nicaragua, S.A.
- Paladin de Saka: 7 x 52
- Price: $28.75
Coverage
- 2022 Cigar of the Year Countdown (Coop’s List): #2: Sin Compromiso Paladin de Saka by Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust
- Cigar Review: Sin Compromiso Paladin de Saka by Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust
Photo Credits: Cigar Coop
