One Episode 236 of the Prime Time Show, we welcome Jared Michaeli, President of Favilli Cigars. Favilli Cigars has been undergoing a lot of changes and tonight Jared will talk to us about what these changes are and what this will mean cigar enthusiasts. We will also have our Alec Bradley Live True, Cattle Baron Steak Question, Sopranos, and Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Deliberation segments.

Today we are reviewing the Mi Querida Black PapaSaka from Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust. Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust released the Mi Querida Black SakaKhan last year at the 2022 PCA Trade Show which was met with a lot of excitement. The cigar ended up many Top Cigars of the Year list and was a huge seller in cigar shops. With the success of the SakaKhan, Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust decided to release a new Mi Querida Black in a corona gorda size which they named PapaSaka. The PapaSaka features a very similar blend with the notable difference being the Honduran tobacco in the SakaKhan being replaced with tobacco from the Dominican Republic in the PapaSaka. Let’s look at the blend. Mi Querida Black PapaSaka Vitola: Corona Gorda Size: 5 5/8 x 48 Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf No.1 Dark Binder: San Andres Negro Filler: Nicaraguan, Honduran, Dominican Country of Origin: Nicaragua Factory: Nicaraguan American Cigars S.A. (NACSA) MSRP: $15.95 PapaSaka provided by Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust From Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust: Mi Querida Black (pronounced “me kay-ree-dah”) is the ultimate execution of our family of broadleaf ligas. “Black” is the third iteration of this style of blend within our Mi Querida family of puros. It retains the soul of our two other ligas within the line, however with the addition of a very select grade of Honduran grown Habano Seed tripa incorporated into the blend. Only the finest materials are utilized from the exhaustively “creamed” tripas, to the very best grade of dark Connecticut-grown Broadleaf capas with acute attention paid to their craftsmanship. Robust, rich, and decadently satisfying, the Limited Production Mi Querida Black is the apex of broadleaf cigars. Mi Querida Black is handcrafted at NACSA cigar factory under the stewardship of their Master Cigar maker Raul Disla at my direction. Packed in an elegant box that expresses from the outside the richness of the blend inside. As always, the pace of its production is being dictated by the tobaccos themselves and therefore it will be limited in its availability via Select Purveyors for the foreseeable future. You can watch our interview with Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust with us at the 2023 PCA Trade Show here where he discusses the PapaSaka. Final Score: 92