During the 2015 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Steve Saka’s Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust debuted its first release to some of the most intense hype of any new cigar company in recent memory. Dubbed Sobremesa, the brand was introduced in five different vitolas, with an additional size shipping just a month later. In June, Saka announced that there would be two additions to the line at this year’s IPCPR trade show, the 7 x 50 Elegante en Cedros and the 4 3/4 x 48 Short Churchill. Packaged in boxes of 13 and 14 respectively, the new vitolas are produced at Fabrica de Tabacos Joya de Nicaragua S.A. and started shipping to retailers immediately after the show. As with the rest of the Sobremesa line, the Short Churchill is composed of an Ecuadorian habano grade 1 dark rosado wrapper, a Mexican Matacapan negro de temporal binder and five fillers: Nicaraguan GK Condega C-SG seco, Nicaraguan Pueblo Nuevo criollo viso, Nicaraguan La Joya Estelí C-98 viso, Nicaraguan ASP Estelí hybrid ligero and broadleaf ligero from Lancaster County, Pa. “Having produced Sobremesa for a year now, we are finding a quantity of exceptional, but too short of capa to make the larger formats within the line so the creation of the ...
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