On Episode 51, we welcome the one and only Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust to Prime Time! We will chronicle Steve’s journey from JR Cigar through Drew Estate and of course, what he has been doing at Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust. In our Debonaire Ideal, we will talk “Epic Road Trips” and in […]
The term “Unicorn” has become a buzz word in the cigar industry. It refers to a cigar that is considered collectible and often difficult to obtain for various reasons. It was a name that Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust founder Steve Saka decided to use for his third installment of his Muestra de Saka series, the […]
Just prior to the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust announced it was putting into widespread release the second installment of its Muestra de Saka series, the Muestra de Saka Nacatamale. The Muestra de Saka line is a limited production line where it follows a model of “one size, one blend”. Dunbarton Tobacco […]
It’s a jam-packed Special Edition #23. For our Big Story, Bear and I talk about our Davidoff Viaje Al Origen visit to the Davidoff operations in the Dominican Republic. Plus we revisit our lab experiment of aging a Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Todos Las Dias cigar; discuss some more of the recent acquisitions in the […]
“There are two things that stand out on with the Todos Las Dias Double Wide Belicoso. The first is the boldness that this cigar delivers from its strength and body. The second is the uniqueness demonstrated from the flavor profile of this cigar… On top of that, I really like how this blend worked in […]
This week Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust will release its most ultra-premium release to date, the Muestra de Saka Unicorn. It’s a project that company founder Steve Saka undertook to see what he could do to make the most ultra-premium cigar possible. Saka explained the background on the project last month on social media: [themify_box] This […]
Back in 2016, Steve Saka and Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust released their second regular production line, Mi Querida. This was Saka’s long-awaited Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper offering. When Mi Querida was first introduced, there were four sizes that were made generally available to retailers. Simultaneously, there were also four additional sizes which were introduced in a […]
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust founder Steve Saka announced on Social Media that he expects the Muestra de Saka Nacatamale to hit retail shelves in mid-November. Just before the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust had started taking pre-orders on the second installment of the Muestra de Saka series, the Nacatamale. Muestra de Saka follows a “one […]
Todos Las Dias was the fifth line by Steve Saka’s Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust to be put into widespread distribution. It was a line that had a soft launch at the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show. At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, it would be Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust’s signature release. Todos Las Dias adds a […]
For Special Edition #10, we discuss people switched jobs in the cigar industry We discuss where the move has been more successful than others and what the impact has been. We also smoke Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust’s Todos Las Dias and go deep on it. As an added twist, we also will take one of those cigars and place it in our humidors […]
