We open Season 5 of taking It To The Nub with Steve Saka, owner of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust. The company has been receiving numerous awards for a number of blends they introduced to the market in 2023 including the Stogie Press Overall Cigar of the Year – the Muestra de Saka Krakatoa. Boston Jimmie Read more about Taking It To The Nub – Season 5 – Steve Saka[…]
Today I offer the final set of candidates for the Stogie Press top cigars of 2023. As is the case every year, Stogie Press has three lists – one for large companies, one for medium companies and one for small companies. If you ask me how I decide the difference between large, medium, and small Read more about 2023 Cigar of the Year Candidates – Part 4[…]
Today I offer the third set of candidates for the Stogie Press top cigars of 2023. As is the case every year, Stogie Press has three lists – one for large companies, one for medium companies and one for small companies. If you ask me how I decide the difference between large, medium, and small Read more about 2023 Cigar of the Year Candidates – Part 3[…]
Today I offer the next set of candidates for the Stogie Press top cigar of 2023. As is the case every year, Stogie Press has three lists – one for large companies, one for medium companies and one for small companies. If you ask me how I decide the difference between large, medium, and small Read more about 2023 Cigar of the Year Candidates – Part 2[…]
Steve Saka and his Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Cigar company have had a busy 2023, releasing a number of cigars to the market. One of those releases was the 7th iteration of the Muestra de Saka collection, which for those that may not be familiar with, means Sample of Saka. It is line of cigars Read more about Cigar Review: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust – Muestra de Saka Krakatoa – Rated 98[…]
The Mi Querida Black was officially introduced at the 2022 PCA Trade Show in Las Vegas in a (7.25 x 54) vitola known as the Mi Querida Black SakaKhan, but some say it was teased out in 2021 when Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust’s crafted a Limited Edition “EM” Maduro for the 50th anniversary of JR Read more about Cigar Review: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Mi Querida Black PapaSaka – Rated 96[…]
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust® (DTT) has announced their intention to delay nationwide distribution of their Polpetta puros. Founder and Master Ligador, Steve Saka explained: Polpetta is a 4.00×48 parejo and a unique elevation of the sandwich-style cigar constructed with the very best table trimmings from crafting their premium Broadleaf ligas such as Mi Querida, including Read more about Cigar News: DTT Delays Release of Polpetta until January 2024[…]
A Little Dondurma History Back, in the middle of the pandemic, in the year 2019, Steve Saka shipped a special, exclusive release cigar to Secreto Cigar Bar in Ferndale, Michigan. That cigar, known as the “Dondurma” was something Steve blended even further back in 2015. According to Steve: “I decided not to sell it because Read more about Cigar Review: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust – Dondurma Golden Child – Rated 95[…]
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust® (DTT) has announced today that the company is currently taking pre-orders for “Krakatoa”, its newest addition to their much-heralded Muestra de Saka line. The deadline for pre-orders is Friday, March 24th, 2023. Founder and Master Ligador, Steve Saka. states: “Muestra is the humble, common word for “sample” in Spanish, however it Read more about Cigar News: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust® (DTT) Taking Pre-Orders for Muestra de Saka Krakatoa[…]
The latest release of the Muestra de Saka known as The Bewitched hit the shelves earlier this year but it was a originally a cigar that Steve Saka made to celebrate the Owl Shop of Worcester’s 75th Anniversary. Steve Saka explains it the best: “Originally this was a liga I created to celebrate the Owl Read more about Cigar Review: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust – Muestra de Saka “The Bewitched” – Rated 97[…]
Over three decades ago, Steve Saka began his long cigar journey and one of his first true cigar loves was the broadleaf puros crafted by Sr. Frank Llaneza (1920 – 2010) and his General Manager Sr. Estelo Padron (1927 – 2015) at the Honduran-American Tobacco, S.A. (HATSA) factory in Cofradia, Honduras. Steve would tell you Read more about Cigar Review: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Mi Querida Black SakaKhan – Rated 93[…]
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust® (DTT) has announced they started shipping the inaugural annual Holiday release of its StillWell Star® handcrafted luxury pipe tobacco cigar to its Purveyors on October 27th, 2022.Simply dubbed the “Holiday Y2022”, it is a liga of traditional black cigar tobaccos combined with a unique custom crafted aromatic pipe blend from the Read more about Cigar News: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust® (DTT) Begins Shipping Annual Holiday Release of StillWell Star®[…]
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust® (DTT) has recently added Uniflame, SA in Greece to its growing list of International Cigar Distributors. Steve Saka, the founder and master ligador of DTT stated: “For us the focus has always been the cigars first and if we did that right, the sales would follow. We arguably have some of Read more about Cigar News: DTT Adds 20th International Distributor with Uniflame, SA in Greece[…]
In this episode of Taking It To the Nub, Quinton Brown and Boston Jimmie from Stogie Press sit down again with the founder of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust – Steve Saka. We talk about what Steve was doing differently at this years Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show and discuss the latest in his special Read more about Taking It To The Nub – Season 3 – Steve Saka[…]