Last week, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust began shipping the StillWell Star Holiday Y2022.

It’s a single size 6 x 52 parejo that uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper and a Mexican San Andrés cultivo tonto negro binder. StillWell Star is made in collaboration with Cornell & Diehl, one of America’s largest pipe tobacco companies. The filler blend of each StillWell Star release is made of pipe tobacco, in the case Cavendish burley and Virginia tobaccos.

The Holiday Y2022 has an MSRP of $15.30 per cigar and is limited to 2,500 boxes of 13 cigars.

“A tradition in Pipe Culture is for carvers to craft one-off pipe designs and for blenders to create special mixtures to smoke and celebrate the Holidays,” said Steve Saka, founder of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust, in a press release. “In honor of this practice, it was always my intention to follow suit within our StillWell Star line of puros. This year’s release is a delightful aromatic puro with a carefully balanced selection of mild Cavendish Burley and choice Virginia tobaccos incorporated. Unlike the Aromatic No. 1 in the core line, this Holiday release does not feature a dulce cabeza, however the tobaccos themselves are wonderfully sweet to the tongue – the flavor and aroma are nothing short of exceptional. Personally, I find the smoking experience to be like sipping a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows fireside.”

The StillWell Star line is made at Fábrica de Tabacos Joya de Nicaragua S.A.

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