Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust: StillWell Star Navy No. 1056 Cigars

Product Number: 007-856-0042

StillWell Star cigars from Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust are the first luxury cigars to feature premium pipe tobacco, pairing the cigar-blending prowess of founder Steve Saka with the pipe-tobacco prowess of Cornell & Diehl. Though he's most prominently known throughout the cigar industry, Steve has smoked a pipe for years, and C&D blends comprise much of his cellar. StillWell Star combines this love for both cigars and pipe tobaccos, represented by four distinctive blends: Aromatic No. 1, English No. 27, Bayou No. 32, and Navy No. 1056. These cigars are all 6" x 52 Toros with Ecuadorian Habano wrappers, Mexican San Andrés binders, and fillers that include various pipe tobaccos — each hand-blended by Cornell & Diehl from recipes created by head blender Jeremy Reeves. While offering flavors and aromas that both cigar and pipe smokers will find familiar and appealing, StillWell Star cigars remain singular, something greater than the sum of their components.

"They're a completely new type of cigar. They're cigars with the essences of pipe tobaccos — enough to catch the average cigar smoker in ways different from anything else they might have experienced before. I want cigar smokers to recognize these blends as different and unique, and I want pipe smokers to experience familiarity but in a different form." -Steve Saka

The concept of pipe-tobacco cigars is not a novel one, but prior examples have often been overwhelmingly sweet and not of particularly high quality on either the cigar or the pipe tobacco side. By contrast, StillWell Star's blends showcase a range of pipe-tobacco varietals, from Latakia, Orientals, and Burley to Virginias, Perique, and Black Cavendish — all expertly crafted at C&D utilizing traditional, hands-on processes and high-grade leaf. Steve and Jeremy both maintain exemplary standards and personally source the raw tobacco they use, so when Steve needed pipe tobacco to create StillWell Star, he turned to Jeremy and C&D. No one has ever combined high-grade pipe tobacco with equally high-grade cigar leaf, and such quality components and range of various pipe tobaccos elevate StillWell Star above other pipe-tobacco cigars. As Steve says, "Be still; be well. These aren't cigars to be rushed. They're to be smoked and thought about." Beautifully balanced and richly nuanced, StillWell Star cigars delight seasoned cigar aficionados and veteran pipe smokers alike and deserve a place in every humidor.

Offered here is the Navy No. 1056: A crumble cake of stoved Red and Golden Virginias with a touch of "Naval Rations" rum is combined with Orientals and Latakia, all expertly blended with dark air-cured black cigar leaf for a rewarding, ever-unique flavor profile.

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  • Length: 6.00 in./152.40 mm.
  • Ring Gauge: 52
  • Country: Nicaragua
  • Wrapper Type: Habano
  • Wrapper Country: Ecuador
  • Filler Country: Nicaragua, Other
  • Binder Country: Mexico
  • Package Type: Stick
  • Make: Handmade
  • Box Pressed: Not Box Pressed
Customer Reviews
Overall Rating:
4.1
8 reviews
Nice First Cigar
May 20, 2024
Product: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust StillWell Star Navy No. 1056
I am a pipe smoker, and these Star cigars tempted me after reading some reviews. As my very first cigar ever, this was comforting and encouraging. I will be trying other cigars now.
A cigar with an internal struggle
April 14, 2024
Product: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust StillWell Star Navy No. 1056
A subtle note of latakia mixed with other tobaccos hints at what to expect as soon as you unwrap it. Upon first light, the blend seems to struggle with itself. As you smoke it, nuances of the different types fight for supremacy, giving the cigar a unique taste as it burns. About half way through, the battle is over as all the tastes blend together into a seemingly tasteless flavor. It makes you wonder what could've been if there wasn't so much infighting....Read More
High Hopes...
May 18, 2023
Product: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust StillWell Star Navy No. 1056
I applaud what this blendmaster is trying to do, but for me it comes across as trying to do too much. Mixing pipe tobacco with cigars is a great idea, but since they are quite essentially different in many respects, you need to come down firmly on one side while giving a slight tip of the hat in the other's direction. This stick rides the fence, achieving neither pipe tobacco nor cigar status with any certainty or panache. The rum casing/topping used here does not complement the leaves they used. The tobaccos are good enough but not very special. If this were a pipe blend I wouldn't like it because it's not nuanced enough and sort of muddled. But I don't like it as a cigar either, because it transgresses the boundaries of the cigar archetype without giving us anything in return for what we lose, there's no payoff. It's too afraid to be one thing or the other so it achieves neither. It's a decent enough stick, mild and mellow and enjoyable enough to finish once started, but not something I would reach for again because I craved it, because I couldn't stop thinking about it or because it had become a necessary staple of my rotation. It doesn't do anything memorable for me, other than its soaring heights of mediocrity -- especially when considered in light of the premium price point. Ouch. About halfway through, it does develop a nice little nose with some pleasantly interesting notes, and the orientals are just detectable if you seek them out. The Virginias start to do some nice things too, at just about the same point, but they can't caramelize as well without the pipe. In spite of these drawbacks it is good enough to maintain the minimum interest necessary to finish it in a single sitting. It is by no means a "bad" smoke. It's just so safe and middle-of-the-road that it's almost boring. Too safe. When a blender says he's out to shake things up, one expects big, bold moves. But this changes nothing. It's just another Thursday....Read More
Pleasing smoke
December 14, 2022
Product: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust StillWell Star Navy No. 1056
It’s a good sized cigar not too heavy with a creamy flavorful smoke. They advertised it as a cigar that pipe smokers would like. I bought in to that, tried it, and agree. I liked it so much that I bought more. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a cigar expert but I enjoyed this one much more than other cigars I have tried in the past. https://youtu.be/qfuyvy8x958...Read More
An Intriguing Effort!
July 24, 2022
Product: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust StillWell Star Navy No. 1056
As an avid pipe enthusiast and cigar smoker (as well as a bit of a Dunbarton fanboy - but aren't we all at this point?), I was excited to try this exciting marriage of the two styles. I found all four expressions to be remarkably well executed and fe... el they could easily serve as a bridge from one category to the other. Perfect draw and construction with a remarkably even burn - no easy feat with a complex and unique blend such as this! Full marks once more for the illustrious Steve Saka!!...Read More
One word - flavor
June 19, 2022
Product: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust StillWell Star Navy No. 1056
Great taste. This may sound stupid, but it tastes like what I thought cigars should taste like when i was a kid. Great flavor, even smoke, wonderful room note. I mainly smoke a pipe, but find these a great alternative when I am in the mood for a cigar.
Enjoyed
February 13, 2022
Product: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust StillWell Star Navy No. 1056
Great smoke to sit down with. Very interesting flavours throughout, really enjoyed the smoking experience of this cigar the pipe tobacco is definitely there but imbalance with the rest of the tobacco. Will buy again
Excellent
January 05, 2022
Product: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust StillWell Star Navy No. 1056
You get the nuances of the pipe tobacco while getting the character of a cigar. Really enjoy the stick.
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