Kaplowitz Media. Cigars of the Month for November 2025

Kaplowitz Media.
Cigars of the Month
for November 2025

(listed in alphabetical order)
(names are links to full reviews)

Don Doroteo El Legado 1936
Dunbarton Umbagog Bronzeback Robusto
Room101 Namakubi Chingon Ltd 2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Dunbarton Cigars Umbagog Bronzeback Robusto in Review

BRAND: Dunbarton T&T
BLEND: Umbagog Bronzeback

WRAPPER: American Connecticut Broadleaf
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Robusto (552)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium
SPICE: 3/5

NOTES:
Dessert spice | Cedar | White pepper

Sweet not sharp pale dessert spices. Obviously solid, deceptively smooth. Malty textbook pages. Animalic depths. Caramel. Praline. White pepper. Sweet bread. Cozy cedar. A clean underneath of salted minerality; floral cotton fabric overneath. Richly-densely nuanced, a warm evolution.

Carefree and intense, a smokeable juxtaposition.

As to the nuts & bolts of the combustion & construction; Excellent draw and burn (see below). Smoke out-put is sans complaint. Ash grows solid, long. Burn-rate is moderate to slow, evenly-so. Build takes a ding (see belower) as pack does tend to soften some on-down.

TASTE: A
DRAW: A-
BURN: A-
BUILD: B+

FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79

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Don Doroteo Cigars El Vencedor 1942 21 Anos in Review

BRAND: Don Doroteo
BLEND: El Vencedor 1942

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Corojo
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Dominican, Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Toro (5.5x54)
ORIGIN: Dominican Republic (La Aurora)
INTENSITY: Medium
SPICE: 2.5/5

NOTES:
Leather | Dr. Pepper | Amaretto

Starts in reverse-order of italics above. Settles into as noted outside of onset. Starts on a jagged-burn, almost evens out at about that same time. Smokes quick throughout. Chicken coop, barnyard. Seams loosen, don't open. Draw is a tick-towards airy. Fuzzy sweet malt, spiced apricot. Transitional; mildly not wildly.

TASTE: A-
DRAW: B+
BURN: B
BUILD: B+

FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79

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Don Doroteo Cigars El Legado 1936 in Review

BRAND: Don Doroteo
BLEND: El Legado 1936

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Sumatra
BINDER: Ecuadorian Sumatra
FILLER: Colombian, Dominican, Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: Dominican Republic
INTENSITY: Medium
SPICE: 2/5

NOTES:
Citrus | Graham Cracker | Milk Chocolate

Graham cracker, citrus, and a fluffy-toasted cream filling-topping conjures up Meringue pie imagery. Dessert spices hint at apples, peaches. Buttery cedar structures. Milk chocolate shavings top it off. Silty sandy-clay saltiness. Silky earthiness. Slow-mo action. Deliberate not dull. Consistent not unchanging.

TASTE: A-
DRAW: B+
BURN: A-
BUILD: A-

FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79

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