Muestra de Saka Mi Querida Black Unicorn (6 1/4 x 60) Cigar

Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust is the boutique house of industry veteran Steve Saka, producing meticulously blended, full-flavored cigars in Nicaragua. The Mi Querida Black blend traces back to a limited edition EM Maduro created to commemorate JR Cigar's 50th anniversary — built around the kind of cigar longtime JR buyer Ed McVey favored — before it moved into the Mi Querida line as Mi Querida Black the following year. The Unicorn is Dunbarton's ultra-premium 6 1/4 x 60 diadema, first released under the Muestra de Saka banner in 2018 and extended to Mi Querida Black at the 2023 PCA show as a very limited run of 200 boxes of 10.

A Connecticut Broadleaf No. 1 Dark maduro wrapper over a Mexican San Andrés Negro binder, with aged long fillers from Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. For the Unicorn, the finest Connecticut Broadleaf No. 1 Dark leaves are selected and rolled into the 6 1/4 x 60 Diadema Deluxe at the Nicaraguan American Cigars S.A. (NACSA) factory. Each cigar is nested in its own individual black coffin and packed in boxes of 10.

Opens on mocha — coffee fused with chocolate — alongside red pepper, damp earth and cedar, with red pepper showing on the retrohale. Damp earth moves to the forefront through the first and second thirds, with coffee, cedar and pepper settling in behind it. The pepper builds steadily in the second half, closing in on the earth by the final third while cedar and coffee round things out.

An after-dinner cigar for the seasoned smoker. Allow 60–75 minutes.