Dunbarton Red Meat Lovers Beef Stick (6×48)

Steve Saka is one of the most respected blenders alive, and the Red Meat Lovers Beef Stick might be his most unhinged concept executed perfectly. The story goes that Saka was in Nicaragua eating a porterhouse, specifically a chuleta de dos lomos, the kind of steak that makes you reconsider every life decision that didn’t involve red meat, and decided someone needed to build a cigar specifically engineered to be smoked alongside one.

The result is this 6×48 parejo rolled at Nicaraguan American Cigars S.A., loaded with Pennsylvania and Nicaraguan fillers, a San Andrés Negro binder, and a Connecticut Broadleaf No. 1 Dark wrapper so oily it practically glistens. The profile delivers charred wood, dark chocolate, leather, black pepper, and what reviewers keep calling umami. It’s full-bodied, savory, and unapologetically bold. Do not light this on an empty stomach. Do light it after a ribeye. That’s not a suggestion.