{"id":5002,"date":"2022-03-30T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luxuryampersandfrolics.com\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2022-10-29T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:27:27","slug":"muestra-de-saka-the-bewitched-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/muestra-de-saka-the-bewitched-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Muestra De Saka \u201cThe Bewitched\u201d Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust (DTT) is announcing \u201cThe Bewitched\u201d, its newest addition to the Muestra de Saka line.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMuestra is the humble, common word for\u00a0sample<\/i>\u00a0in Spanish, however it takes on much more important, sometimes reverential, meaning when used in a handmade cigar factory. A muestra is the vision of the ligador and torcedor realized, it is the promise of a new experience and possibly the key to financial success for the fabrica. Muestras are hoarded and coveted by not only their makers, but by the cigar smokers who seek to catch a glimpse into the cigarmaker\u2019s soul within their smoke\u201d states Founder and Master Ligador, Steve Saka.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Bewitched\u201d is an intoxicating liga of choice Nicaraguan and US grown fillers with our exclusive Cultivo Tonto San Andreas Negro binder swaddled in a Grade 1 Ecuador Habano Seed capa. Presented in a beautiful 6 5\/8 x 50 prensado vitola with a spiral colita, this cigar rewards the smoker with a beguiling smoking experience with notes of cafe, caramel, cedar, and tempered spice. It is truly an entrancing medium-plus bodied smoke, so hard to describe, yet so perfect in balance and nuance, from the moment I finished it I was mesmerized with it,\u201d states Saka.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He continues to share, \u201cOriginally this was a liga I created to celebrate the Owl Shop of Worcester\u2019s 75th Anniversary. For those of you who know Zach and his shop, please know we do so with his blessing. In fact, he is the one who said this cigar was too good to not share it with our other accounts, so please thank him on my behalf. I was ecstatic that Zach blessed my crafting more because from the moment I finished this liga I was spellbound by it, so much so I decided we would call the release \u201cThe Bewitched\u201d because of how it so captivated my own palate: So intricate, so harmonious, so refined, so difficult to define, yet so difficult to ignore. Everyone I smoked made me want to smoke another.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBut I wanted to honor the Owl Shop and Zach\u2019s family legacy, so I decided to pay homage by keeping the Owl as the icon since that is where it all began, but here is where the story gets peculiar. It turns out totally unknown to me that there is a superstition among Nicaraguans that Owls are the physical manifestation of witches who cast their spells upon the people in the dark of the night. My understanding is that some consider black owls to be evil witches, while brown owls are regarded as good witches.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cSo I make a cigar I find mesmerizing for the Owl Shop, am encouraged by Zach to make more, decide to call it the \u201cThe Bewitched\u201d because of how it makes me feel, then decide to keep the Owl as the icon to pay honor to ultimately learn that in Nicaragua Owls are regarded as witches\u2026 wow, that is just too much of a coincidence for even me to ignore. Fate is a fickle thing, but I am wise enough to not fight it. This was a project that simply was meant to be. Now whether it is the spell of a black owl or a brown owl, I don\u2019t care because I love this cigar\u2019s magic!\u201d concludes Saka.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Like all Muestra de Saka ligas except the Unicorn they are packed in individual cedar coffins in a 7-ct box and will be INR 38,0000 per box. Current anticipate delivery to Select Purveyors is Summer of 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust (DTT) is announcing \u201cThe Bewitched\u201d, its newest addition to the Muestra de Saka line. \u201cMuestra is the humble, common word for\u00a0sample\u00a0in Spanish, however it takes on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,68,20,24,36,223],"tags":[2,7,169,341,342,220,21,343,221,222,224,225],"class_list":["post-5002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cigars","category-ecuador","category-india-cigar-club","category-luxury","category-nicaragua","category-press-release","tag-cigars","tag-cigar","tag-cigar-news","tag-dtt","tag-dunbarton-tobacco-trust","tag-exclusive-cigars","tag-india-cigar-club","tag-muestra-de-saka","tag-new-launches","tag-new-world-cigars","tag-special-edition","tag-special-launches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiacigarclub.com\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}