Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust: Muestra De Saka Unstolen Valor Cigars

In Spanish, muestra means "sample," but in a cigar factory devoted to handmade cigars, the word has a deeper connotation, referring to the realized vision of the blender — the cigar that finally encompasses the desired profile, after time spent tweaking and refining. In the Muestra de Saka line, Dunbarton's founder Steve Saka presents a series of unique blends and vitolas made in extremely limited quantities and marked by different tobaccos.

Offered here is the Unstolen Valor, which was actually blended by Raul Disla, the production manager of Nicaraguan American Cigars S.A. Saka asked Disla to blend four different versions, and then picked his favorite. Unstolen Valor is a Nicaraguan puro comprised of Cuban-seed leaf, and it's the first of the Muestra de Saka line that Steve considers to be full-bodied, presented as a 6 x 52 Toro with each cigar in its own wooden coffin.