Monday, September 28, 2026

Dunbarton Cigars Sobremesa Tapa Negra in Review

BRAND: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust
BLEND: Sobremesa Tapa Negra

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Shade | Nicaraguan Sungrown
BINDER: San Andres Negro
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Toro (652)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Mild-med/Medium
SPICE: 1.5/5

White chocolate | Macadamia Nuts | Buttery Suede

NOTES:
Takes a couple ticks to calm down and open up. How is your mom? There's a learning curve to drawing in something quite different than what's on your lips (Shade/Sungrown). Makes full sense sometime in the opening-third. Becomes a nice creamy-sweet thing with nuff white pepper to keep one honest.

Still smooth to the point of lacking some in structure. Complexity is nice but mellow and needs looked for. A quiet smoke. Hints of lemon cleanse well. Slight dandelion dalliances. Salted caramel comes on in a mid-way shift toward dessert notes. Ends in a black pepper shot of espresso at the nub.

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

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

::: very :::