Cigar: Todos Las Dias
Size: Double Wide Belicoso (4.75 x 60)
Wrapper: Nicaragua
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua
Price: $12.45 per cigar MSRP
Samples provided by the manufacturer
Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust is a name from the cigar world that makes my ears perk up when I hear it. My normal response to friends that bring up the name of the company or one of their cigars is “Go buy it!” So when a Todos Las Dias found its way to my house at the end of 2017, I was naturally excited to say the least. Unfortunately, this was one of a couple cigars in my humidor that I just wasn’t able to work into the review cycle before the year closed out, so it comes to all of you today.
“Todos Las Dias” is Steve Saka’s ‘interpretation’ of Todos Los Dias, or All The Days. The name of the cigar came the conceptions of everyday hard work, no matter what the rest of the world thinks of it. The cigar makes ample use of Nicaraguan tobaccos from a couple of different regions, providing an experience familiar to those who love the tobacco of that country (I’m one of them).
No construction issues on the cigar chosen for review (two were provided). The pre-light aromas gave me notes of leather and dark chocolate while the cold draw brought very faint notes of dried fruit. I opted for a straight guillotine cut and found a balanced draw after the light. The opening flavor notes granted me immediately strong spice and pepper with faint woody aftertastes. The cigar’s Nicaraguan Cuban-seed and Sungrown wrapper hints at the strength but that doesn’t even tell the full story. This is easily one of the strongest cigars I have smoked in a long time. I literally felt like I was vibrating by the halfway point in the cigar. The spice and peppery notes were joined by heavy wood and leather at the 21 minute mark. Those flavors began easing back with the introduction of dark chocolate-like notes 16 minutes after that. All throughout these flavor changes, the strength stayed full bodied and began inching up more and more through the cigar’s smoking. The cigar finished with dark chocolate, black coffee and woody notes to accompany a full bodied and powerful cigar. Total smoking time was 1:06.
Despite coming to the limit of my nicotine intake, I didn’t get sick nor require any milk chocolate to come down from this cigar. No problems regarding the build or smoking of this cigar came about. The burn stayed even and the cigar stayed lit the entire time. I would like to try this cigar in a robusto size the next time I smoke one to see if there are any noticeable strength differences from the Double Wide Belicoso. All in all, this was another enjoyable, albeit vastly different cigar, from Steve Saka and Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust.
By-The-Numbers
Pre-light: 2/2
Construction: 2/2
Flavor: 4/5
Value: 1/1
Total: 9/10
To recap the Todos Las Dias:
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If you like your cigars incredibly strong, this is probably the cigar for you. I liked the combination of flavors but I felt at times that this cigar needed to be brought down a notch on the strength scale. Or maybe I need to smoke more of them to toughen up.
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This cigar is not going to appeal to everyone because of its strength and that’s ok. Newer cigar smokers should have a meal in them and/or keep milk chocolate nearby before trying this.
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While the cigar is just over my preferential $10 per cigar mark, this one is good enough to warrant the value.
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I really enjoyed this cigar for what it was, but it’s a distant third compared to the likes of the Sobremesa and Mi Querida (for me). I see a five pack of these finding their way to my humidor for special occasions.
Thank you to Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust for the samples and thank you very much for reading. I look forward to the next time I can share my thoughts with you.
