Are these cheap

[HabanoSy]

Boli Bonitas...

Top choice Tipp...

Where's TJ...!?!

Cheers, HabanoSy

[Stevieboy]

Boli Bonitas...

Top choice Tipp...

Where's TJ...!?!

Cheers, HabanoSy

I know....I thought he'd be on these in a shot....

[mamasad]

Hi just a quick up date Bolivar Bonita's smoked superbly as did the Rafael Gonzalez Petit Coronas.

It?s the Romeo Belicosos that gets the snip tonight cannot wait mam


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[Stevieboy]

Oooh nice!!!! How are they squeezability-wise? I quite fancy some of the RyJ belis.

[mamasad]

Oooh nice!!!! How are they squeezability-wise? I quite fancy some of the RyJ belis.

Firm with a little give. ore spongy but firm not dry at all.
Had some cigars before that cracked the wrapper when squeezed they were to dry these are just right mam.

[Zigatoh]

oh phew, it's his name, I thought he just called Stevie 'Mam'!!

[Zigatoh]

oopsie, RyJs and Bolis on the way....!

[Struth]

Got the Bolis very nice quite a powerful smoke I enjoyed it after steak and chips think I would struggle on an empty stomach, anybody tried the romeos yet ? very tempted at the price.

[mamasad]

anybody tried the romeos yet ? very tempted at the price.

Hi Struth R&Js light creamy smooth musky wood notes first 3rd.
second 3rd Light medium Get a bit more body through earthy woody notes.
Last 3rd medium body full flavors earthy woody same as second 3rd not good as Bolis in flavor or strength Just my 2pence worth.


your right about the Bolis creamy chocolate coco at beginning and creme coffee in middle and getting dark coffee pepper at end smooth all the way super smoke Bolivar Bonitas mam.

[monkey66]

Did anyone try the Siglo V's yet, are they a good representation?

[mamasad]

Did anyone try the Siglo V's yet, are they a good representation?

Hi was going to get the Siglo V's but held back for Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story might get some next month if they are still there mam.

[tippexx]

I intended to finish my Lancero Reviews today, but have done this instead. I hope it is of some use and help.

Bolivar ? Bonitas
Size: 126mm x 40 ? Londres
Smoke time: 50mins


Box date: 1998 (JJFox aged)


Appearance: Firm to the touch, pressed-in-the-box squared profile with a slightly faded Colorado wrapper carrying some raised veins, but no sign of crystalisation or ?plume?. Standard band ?A?.


Construction: Easy pre-draw, No significant burn or draw problems thereafter. Smoke quality good, reasonably soft and carried a pleasant aroma. The smoke time was some 10 mins short of normal time for smoking this vitola, which to my mind suggested a possible lack of moistness or oil in the tobacco. The mid-grey ash stayed compact and firm, needing few tap-offs (see photos). No re-lights, no corrections.

Flavour: First hit coffee, hay and earth accompanied by the sweet, but on this smoking, very much vestage, underlying Cuban citric twang. Progress and the flavour become woodier, but still carrying an underlying sweetness and with some peppers in retro-hale. The second third is woods, dry but not un-pleasant. The final third was a bit fuller and richer and the flavour much more coffeelike the peppers also intensified, but not uncomfortably so. The tobacco strength, which usually in a Bonitas increases in intensity (with the flavour) from around the half point, was missing, but given I?d chosen to smoke the stick early in the morning on an empty stomach, that?s not always a bad thing.


Overall: I don?t regret buying these, and I?ll use them, although slighty relegated, as Winter smokes. For the price they represent pretty good value and are recognisable as Boli Bonitas, but are not on a par with my 07s. IMHO they?re like a player who?s played one season in the Premiership to many. Still good in flashes, but passed their best.

[Smallclub]

The smoke time was some 10 mins short of normal time for smoking this vitola, which to my mind suggested a possible lack of moistness or oil in the tobacco.

Actually, aged tobacco is much less hygroscopic than fresh tobacco. In my experience, vintage cigars often take less smoking time than their younger equivalents…

[Zigatoh]

"Less hygroscopic" - meaning a lesser tendency to absorb moisture ~ "a possible lack of moistness" so basically a high falutin way of saying the same thing?

[Smallclub]

"Less hygroscopic" - meaning a lesser tendency to absorb moisture ~ "a possible lack of moistness" so basically a high falutin way of saying the same thing?

No - read again. I explain that what is presented as a possible defect, is actually a characteristic. I know that my english is perfectible, but still…