The Tabernacle is Foundation Cigar Company’s newest super premium cigar. It is a combination of tastes that calls on founder Nicholas Melillo’s roots in the Connecticut River Valley and his work with the finest artisanal tobacco batches in Nicaragua. The Tabernacle box tells the story of the cigar’s name. The artwork features an image of none other than Haile Selassie, 225th King of Abyssinia, whose lineage traces directly to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The […]
This week on The Cigar Authority we are joined by Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust. We will light up some new cigars including the Sobremesa Short Churchill and Mi Querida. We will discuss how the past 8 months have been for Steve as a brand owner and look into what the future may hold. Also we will name the winners of the #TCABOOM campaign and let you know who won a 5 pack […]
Back in November of 2015, right here at Two Guys Smoke Shop, Steve Saka unofficially launched his first brand of cigars since leaving his position as President & CEO of Drew Estate in 2013. Sobremesa is a cigar Steve blended to fit his palate; he wanted something that had a lot of flavor and complexity that wasn’t overpowering with strength. According to Saka, the Sobremesa Elegante en Cedro features what he feels are the best […]
As we know, Steve Saka’s Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust has plans to release a new vitola in the Sobremesa line at IPCPR in Las Vegas. Those plans were made official with a letter to retailers today. According to the email the Elegante en Cedros will be a cedar sleeved 7 x 50 parejo that comes packaged in 13 count boxes. The blend will be a tweaked version of the El Americano and Cervantes Fino. According to Saka, […]
This isn’t the first time we have reviewed the Sobremesa from Steve Saka’s Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust but since the tobaccos are dictating the speed in which they are sent to select purveyor’s I was curious to see if the brand has remained consistent and today we look at the El Americano which is probably the size I have smoked the most since the brands release. According to the DT&T website, “Sobremesa, “over the table”, has […]
The success of Steve Saka’s newest brand Sobremesa will be labeled hit or miss in the coming days as he begins to send out the second shipment of his freshman release under his company Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust. Will those who bought the initial release return to make a second purchase or are they one and done customers. According to Steve Saka, the cigars have two different blends with the thinner ring gauges being tweaked versus the larger […]
This past week the most anticipated cigar of 2015 began shipping to retailers and one of the first events for the cigar was held at Two Guys Smoke Shop in Salem, New Hampshire. Invites to members of Cigar Cartel were extended for this private event that featured Steve Saka as a guest on The Cigar Authority podcast along with a Q & A period for members of the Cartel with the creator of Sobremesa. The […]
This week we welcome to the studio Steve Saka; the owner of Dumbarton Tobacco & Trust as well as the creator of the much-anticipated release Sobremesa. We will smoke the first blend of the cigar that was not chosen while in the second hour we will smoke the official release and share with you our thoughts. We also welcome Derek “Acey” Stewart who is one of the founders of the hottest Facebook group devoted to […]
Sobremesa is set to ship over the coming days and while the word has no precise English translation it basically means “over the table”. It is an idiom used in Latin cultures to describe the leisurely time spent tableside after you have finished dining, but before you rise. It is the experience of lingering casually with friends and family in conversation, relaxing, drinking, smoking and enjoying each other’s company. Sobremesa is one of life simplest pleasures. Available […]
According to their Facebook page, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust will ship their initial orders to select purveyors on the estimated date of November 1st, 2015. According to the posting all orders will be truncated though retailers will receive an equitable share of their first order with the balance to be fulfilled ASAP. The posting goes on to say that the company received “5-fold” the amount of orders at the IPCPR than they anticipated and that Steve […]