The cat is out of the bag. Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust’s Steve Saka has announced the details around StillWell Star, a release that has been shrouded in mystery for the past six weeks. StillWell Star will be a line of four blends, being done in collaboration with Jeremy Reeves of famed pipe tobacco company Cornell & […]
The Sobremesa Brûlée Blue is 6 1/4 x 46 tweaked version of the Sobremesa Brûlée, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust’s Connecticut Shade offering. If you have followed the career of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust owner Steve Saka, you will know that with most of his core lines, he has also released alternative, “tweaked” versions of those […]
Tonight the Prime Time Show celebrates four years streaming! Our guest of honor tonight is the one and only Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust. When we started the Prime Time Show in 2017, our goal was to be the cigar industry’s podcast. One key part of our industry talk is our Industry Deliberations […]
Tonight the Prime Time Show celebrates four years streaming! Our guest of honor tonight is the one and only Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust. When we started the Prime Time Show in 2017, our goal was to be the cigar industry’s podcast. One key part of our industry talk is our Industry […]
Cigar enthusiasts in Belgium and Luxembourg will soon have access to offerings in the Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust portfolio. Today Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust announced it has reached an agreement with European distributor Media Rueda to handle its distribution in the Belgium and Luxembourg markets. “When I began Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust I had a […]
The Unstolen Valor is the fifth installment in Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust’s limited production line, Muestra de Saka. The line has been primarily positioned as a one size, one blend line for each installment. The series has also become a very personal one from Master Ligador Steve Saka. He has described this as “a line […]
At Smoke Inn’s Great Smoke Digital Event scheduled for Saturday February 20th, 2021, there will be six manufacturers offering exclusive cigars for ticket holders. One of the cigars comes from Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust and it’s a blend created by Steve Saka. In a statement, Saka explained the background behind this cigar: The blend itself […]
Agile Cigar Reviews are cigar assessments where we use a lightweight, shorter format. These will never take the place of our comprehensive reviews. They are only used on blends we have previously assessed. This might be a blend we are rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
“…the Triqui Traca delivers on being a bolder offering from the original Mi Querida… Overall I found the flavors produced to be very enjoyable.” Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf Binder: Nicaraguan Filler: Nicaraguan, Dominican Country of Origin: Nicaragua Factory: Nicaragua American Cigars S.A. (NACSA) No 552: 5 x 52 Price: $10.75 Sponsor: Yes Samples Provided for […]
In 2020, Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust announced he was going to release his first event-only cigar which he dubbed Polpetta. Polpetta is actually a mixed-filler “Cuban sandwich” based on a concept he introduced at Drew Estate. While at Drew Estate, Saka developed a project called Papas Fritas with was made from tobacco […]
