Sobremesa Brûlée Wagashi Shipping This Week

The newest size of Sobremesa Brûlée Blue will begin shipping to consumers this week.

Smoke Inn says that preorders of the Sobremesa Brûlée Blue Wagashi will begin heading out to consumers this week. Wagashi is an exclusive for Smoke Inn, the south Florida retailer, a collaboration between it, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust and Cigar Dojo. As for the cigar, it’s a 6 x 50 toro that uses a tweaked version of the standard Sobremesa Brûlée Blue blend. That includes an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper over a Mexican San Andrés negro binder and fillers from Nicaragua.

Unlike the regular Brûlée Blue cigars, which are round, Wagashi is trunk-pressed.

Each cigar has an MSRP of $17.95 and the Wagashi comes in boxes of 13. Abe Dababneh, founder of Smoke Inn, told halfwheel that the store will begin shipping preorders this week and plans to put the remaining cigars on its website as early as late next week.

“I​ ​have​ ​been​ ​tinkering​ ​with​ ​a​ ​larger​ ​format​ ​of​ ​my​ ​Sobremesa​ ​Brulée Blue​ ​liga​ ​for​ ​a​ ​couple​ ​of​ ​years​ ​on​ ​and​ ​off,”​ ​said Steve Saka, founder of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust, in a press release when the cigar was announced in April.​ ​“My​ ​original​ ​intent​ ​was​ ​to craft​ ​a​ ​’Big​ ​Blue,’​ ​but​ when​ ​the​ ​opportunity​ ​arose​ ​to​ ​create​ ​something special​ ​for​ ​Dojo,​ it​ ​refocused​ ​my​ ​efforts,​ ​as​ ​the​ ​Brulée​ ​blend​ ​is​ ​one of​ ​Sensei’s​ favorites.​ ​Trunk​ ​pressing​ ​this​ ​liga​ ​proved​ ​to​ ​be​ ​quite​ ​a challenge,​ not​ ​only​ ​due​ ​to​ ​bruising​ ​and​ ​splitting​ ​of​ ​the​ ​shade wrappers,​ ​but​ ​how​ ​it​ ​impacted​ ​the​ ​flavor​ ​and​ ​burn.​”

Wagashi is a category of Japanese dessert; the best-known example in the Western world is probably mochi.

Cigar Dojo is an online cigar blog and community that has partnered with a number of brands to create Dojo-themed cigars, most of which have been sold at a specific retailer.