Bolivar Distinguidos jar China ER

[Nino]

I received this jar in January this year from a good friend in HKG.

I wrote this report in February and then left for Cuba and forgot all about it until I first smoked a stick yesterday .....

It was fantastic and the consensus was that it's one of the best cigars released in many years !

Might post a report on the cigar in my blog.

Bolivar Distinguidos Jar ER China

Febr. 2012 ( posted July 2012 )

It's been an incredible economic development that I have witnessed in China from 1979 until now.

From an hermetically closed country where all dressed alike, from millions of bicycles in Beijing and no cars, from special currency for foreigners and prices according to the "socialist friendship" of your nationality to … a world's economic power where just days ago Germany's chancellor went hat in hand to Beijing asking for financial support for Europe's failed economy ( and came back empty handed).

What irony.

And what a confirmation of Deng Xiao Ping's famous sentence : "Whether a cat is black or white doesn't matter, what matter is that it catches mice". Every Chinese understood the meaning of those words – the party will rule but you see to it that you make money.

Walking distance from the White Swan hotel on Shamian island in Guangzhou is the first farmer's market that opened in China under Deng's new policies. The White Swan itself was China's first joint venture hotel. Today the Pearl river delta is the factory to the world.

Staying many weeks for years at the White Swan, among many other Chinese destinations flown, I saw that many heads of state resided there on official visits, among them Fidel Castro. It's a puzzle to me why he didn't learn from the Chinese and opened up the island's economy and instead let it go belly up to the discontent of its people, especially after the former paymaster, the Soviet Union broke down.

Cuban-Chinese relations started in 1960 and that is what this beautiful jar commemorates.

It gives me a chance to reflect on the economic tale of two different nations under the same ideology.

Again – this is just an economic tale and I'm not going to delve into political semantics.

But I dislike the arrogance of the West in condemning a priori the success of this economy because of rightful claims for more openness, democracy and human rights.

Looking at the plight of southern European nations we should acknowledge the hard work ethics, and dynamic growth and that exists in Asia.

Sticking our head in the sand and bitching about those facts will lead us nowhere. Fast.

Nino

For more pictures see :

http://www.flyingcig...os_china_er.php

[in0gravity]

Hi Nino,

Couldn't agree more. This is a fantastic smoke. Still a bit young but will only get better in the Jar.

Thanks for posting.

And best regards to the old neighborhood (partly grew up in Bad Kreuznach)

Lars

P.S. Like your Blog.

[Mr.T]

Nino, thanks for sharing the photos and experience. I make 3 big trips to China every year and every time I go I'm blown away. I just finished an incredible biography of Deng Xiaoping by Ezra Vogel called "Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China". It's over 700 pages, but well worth the time; I highly recommend it. An incredible account of an incredible man and statesmen.

[MrDowse]

Sweet, got a single on its way from the Czar. I'll put it to bed for a while, and maybe smoke it on my birthday

[Nino]

Hi Nino,

Couldn't agree more. This is a fantastic smoke. Still a bit young but will only get better in the Jar.

Thanks for posting.

And best regards to the old neighborhood (partly grew up in Bad Kreuznach)

Lars

P.S. Like your Blog.

Danke Lars,

we were very impressed with this cigar yesterday, all of us, and truly felt it is uniquely well made and very much Bolivar.

As for BK - I can almost see it from my terrace ( ca. 25 kms away and during the Autumm wine festival I can see the big caroussel wheel there ).

I f you happen to be back in Rheinhessen, drop by and smoke with us.

Thanks & Grüsse

Nino

[in0gravity]

Danke Lars,

we were very impressed with this cigar yesterday, all of us, and truly felt it is uniquely well made and very much Bolivar.

As for BK - I can almost see it from my terrace ( ca. 25 kms away and during the Autumm wine festival I can see the big caroussel wheel there ).

I f you happen to be back in Rheinhessen, drop by and smoke with us.

Thanks & Grüsse

Nino

Dear Nino,

this is also what I noticed, a true to the core Bolivar.

And thanks for the offer. I will take up on it when I am in the neighborhood. Wanted to visit family in Frankfurt sometime in August so I am close enough to make a detour into Rheinhessen.

Schöne Grüße

Lars

[Nino]

Dear Nino,

this is also what I noticed, a true to the core Bolivar.

And thanks for the offer. I will take up on it when I am in the neighborhood. Wanted to visit family in Frankfurt sometime in August so I am close enough to make a detour into Rheinhessen.

Schöne Grüße

Lars

Lars,

if you are around on Friday 17 August, then join us at the pharmacy for the Big annual summer cigar meeting.

You are welcome !

Liebe Grüsse zurück,

Nino

[Scdalak]

I hope to try one of these,ahhhhhh maybe in another life....

[Guest Robo]

I've got one of these in the mail too. Czar were giving singles out to anyone who bought at a recent LFTH.

[#2 man]

Great pictures thanks for sharing

[in0gravity]

Lars,

if you are around on Friday 17 August, then join us at the pharmacy for the Big annual summer cigar meeting.

You are welcome !

Liebe Grüsse zurück,

Nino

Nino,

sorry for the delay. I was travelling the last two days.

August 17th may collide with my travel schedule (you know it is one of those things where you may go or not). But I will let you know in advance.

Beste GRüße

Lars

[padrinocubano]

que lindo es esta jarra amigo mio.

para una coleccion una maravilla.

abrazos

[Afficionado1]

Indeed a very nice Jar Nino