Smoked: Dunbarton Umbagog Robusto Plus

Smoked at: West Chester, Ohio

Dunbarton Umbagog Robusto Plus 5 X 52 is made with Nicaraguan filler, a Nicaraguan binder and an oily dark brown Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper with tight seams and lots of veins. The cigar sports an ordinary pedestrian green and white cigar band with the name “Umbagog.” That’s it.

Cedar, earth, a small shot of pepper, mild spice, mixed nuts, cocoa transitioning to dark chocolate. The only other transitions I could identify were a splash of cinnamon in the spice profile by the second third along with faint hints of dried fruit, mineral and leather and the cedar changing to a charred firewood kind of taste by the last third. The cigar does not finish well. That charred note brings out a harshness that wasn’t there earlier in the smoke. The retrohale is heavy on the wood and pepper. Body is medium-full. Strength is medium-full.

The cigars gets kudos for construction – fairly even burn, the draw was just right, decent smoke production, ash held & never dropped and only one small wrapper issue that self-corrected.

Unlike most Dunbartons I’ve smoked, the Umbagog isn’t the Oh Wow flavor bomb. It is however a decent, fairly enjoyable smoke utiliazing a balance of the flavors it does provide. There really is no complexity. By Dunbarton standards, I put it ahead of the Polpetta, behind the Mi Querida, and way behind the Muesta de Saka, Sin Compromiso and Sobremesa. Overall, Dunbarton Umbagog is a decent cigar, just nothing special to report.

If you try one, I hope you have better luck with the final third. Let me know. If the entire experience was like the first two thirds, the Umbagog would have received a few more accolades.