Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Slates Overseas No. 1 for 2025

Ahead of next week’s InterTabac 2024 trade fair in Dortmund, Germany, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust has released information on its new international-exclusive line called Overseas.

In a way, Overseas could function like Dunbarton’s Muestra de Saka brand in that the various Overseas cigars may not be the same blends. The first cigar in the line is called Overseas No. 1, a 6 x 50 toro with a coiled cap. It uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a Mexican San Andrés negro binder and fillers from Nicaragua and Pennsylvania.

Overseas No. 1 will be sold in boxes of 10 cigars; pricing has not yet been announced.

Joya de Nicaragua serves as both the manufacturer and the distributor for the release, which will be sold around the world but not in the U.S. While it will be shown off at InterTabac 2024, a trade show focused on international distributors, it is not expected to begin shipping until early next year.

Steve Saka, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust’s founder, explained the reason for the new line:

In the domestic US market, I am afforded the flexibility to share some of my favorite new blends regularly in small quantities, but due to the complexities of the international market this has never been possible. And regretfully for our loyal DTT customers around the globe, they rarely have access to any of my small batch, limited production puros.

So two years ago, I decided to create a new brand dedicated expressly for these rare cigars for our foreign customers. A common brand and design to simplify the various compliance needs of our international distributors, yet to afford me the opportunity to share some my favorite blending machinations and cigar expressions with our non-US connoisseurs. And to afford them the same exclusivity, to only offer these unique ligas outside of my domestic market.

InterTabac 2024 takes place Sept. 19-21 in Dortmund.