Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust’s newest Sin Compromiso vitola is on the way to retailers.

The Sin Compromiso No. 4 is a 5 x 54 robusto extra that is made with a Mexican San Andrés Negro “Cultivo Tonto” wrapper covering an Ecuadorian habano-seed binder and filler tobaccos grown in Nicaragua. In an email, Steve Saka, founder of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust, told halfwheel that this specific vitola “required the liga to be tweaked specifically for this format.” The cigars are rolled at Fábrica de Tabacos Joya de Nicaragua S.A.

Each cigar has an MSRP of $17.95. As is the case with the rest of the Sin Compromiso line, the No. 4 vitola is packaged in boxes of 13.

The name Sin Compromiso is Spanish for without compromise. Saka’s idea to create a cigar that wasn’t held back by any of the normal constraints that go into making a profitable cigar line: materials, time and costs.

“When creating and blending Sin Compromiso I was never satisfied with the robusto vitola,” said Saka, in a post on his Facebook page when the vitola was announced. “It always seemed a little off so when we launched the brand in 2019 I decided to just not include arguably the most popular format. (This is) a 5.00 x 54 prensado robusto whose blend is now perfectly tailored for its format and to suit its namesake.”

According to Saka, boxes of the Sin Compromiso No. 4 began shipping to stores on May 21.

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I have worn many hats in my life up to this point: I started out as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, then transitioned to photographing weddings—both internationally and in the U.S.—for more than a decade. After realizing that there was a need for a cigar website containing better photographs and more in-depth information about each release, I founded my first cigar blog, SmokingStogie, in 2008. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars, and it was one of the predecessors to halfwheel, which I co-founded.