StillWell Star Limited Edition Holiday Y2023 Begins Shipping

For the second consecutive year, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust has created a limited edition version of its StillWell Star line—a line of cigars that use pipe tobacco in the filler—for the holidays. That cigar is now shipping to stores.

Like the rest of the StillWell Star cigars, it’s a 6 x 52 toro. Unlike the first five StillWell Star cigars—all of which have used an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a Mexican San Andrés negro binder—this release uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed wrapper. The other difference lies in the filler, a mixture of Cavendish burley, Golden Virginia and Red Virginia from Cornell & Diehl.

The MSRP is set at $15.95 per cigar and production is limited to 3,500 boxes of 10 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 when the first Holiday version was released last year. “In honor of this practice, it was always my intention to follow suit within our StillWell Star line of puros.”

The StillWell Star line is rolled at Fábrica de Tabacos Joya de Nicaragua S.A. It is offered in four regular production vitolas, each centered around a different pipe tobacco in the filler.

Update — As noted below, the wrapper for this release is Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed.