Bolivar Royal Corona

[Jaksen]

This is my favorite bitter oak and sweet cedar cigar. It is loaded with lots of citrus on the draw, which can be more grassy if the cigar is young. The smoke is thick and building on the oaky base is a lovely creamy nutty taste. It is medium bodied and well rounded. The second inch is more sweet then sour, reminiscing of chocolate. Lovely!

This is the tubos edition and a premium robusto. Absolutely one of the best from Bolivar. The Bolivar Belicosos Finos is almost the same in taste, but missing that lovely sweet and sour bit. The smoke comming from the wrapper is just heaven and delightful. I rate it 94.

[thechenman]

Nice...

[Erm310mce]

nice review! Do you know age and box code?

[Nedule]

I recently bought a 10'er of the tubos & really enjoying them.

[android]

Thanks...luv them

[Jaksen]

"Mange tak"

You're welcome or "du er velkommen" ;o)

[stargazer14]

I'm going for a 10 tuber box myself, glad to hear you liked them.

[alan2]

I smoked one from a MAR 09 box last night and it was pretty good for being so young.

[Jimmy2]

They are supposed to be good young and if so they will age nicely if they not good young people wont buy them as most smoke cigars young world wide.

Must say I had and aged 06 and it was excellent !!! but as I remembered they were great young in 06 ..

[Rogers72]

This may be common knowledge and I just missed it but when did Bolivar start having "Habana" and "Cuba" on the bands? All of mine have always just said "Habana" but i don't have anything newer than mid-2008 i don't think.

Edited to add that I see a pic of this band on Trevor's site but it seems to imply that it is a special production band. Are these now found on standard production as well?

[Jaksen]

This may be common knowledge and I just missed it but when did Bolivar start having "Habana" and "Cuba" on the bands? All of mine have always just said "Habana" but i don't have anything newer than mid-2008 i don't think.

Edited to add that I see a pic of this band on Trevor's site but it seems to imply that it is a special production band. Are these now found on standard production as well?

Standard Band (pre 1960s on)

Special Release Band (2006 on)

[CigarmanTim]

Although I have never smoked the tubos version, the BRC is absolutely in my top 3 for '08 cigars......your description was spot on.