![]() ![]() It’s medium-to-full in body with intonations of butterscotch, leather, chocolate and spice. Besides the Royal Corona, Bolivar has scored in the 90s 15 other times. The all-Nicaraguan Le Bijou 1922 line is an offshoot of the original My Father, and was created in tribute to brand owner Jose “Pepín” Garcia’s father (1922 is the year he was born). After scoring a 93 in the magazine's premiere issue, the Bolivar Royal Corona followed with a stellar 95 score in Winter 1994/95 and then a 90 in December 1998. The Bolivar Royal Coronas is an all-star, a full and rich Robusto, 4.9 (124mm) long, of 50 ring gauge, and comes in aluminum tubes in a 10 cigars box. ![]() My Father Le Bijou 1922 Churchill (93 points, $12.90)Īt 7 by 50, this Churchill is the longest cigar on the list, making it a great choice for long summer evenings. It’s a bold, medium-to full-bodied smoke loaded with hickory and black pepper but sweeter elements of marshmallow and vanilla give it balance. Made by Ernesto Perez-Carrillo at his Tabacalera La Alianza factory in the Dominican Republic, the Apogee is rolled with a Connecticut Habano wrapper, Ecuadoran binder and Nicaraguan filler. Measuring a hefty 6 1/4 by 58, the Apogee size is the big sister to 2020’s Cigar of the Year, the Pledge Prequel. It’s the defining tobacco of this cigar, which delivers impressions of German chocolate cake, orange peel, licorice and wood. Corojo is a Cuban-seed varietal now grown in other countries, in this case, Honduras. The Corojo line, which has bright red packaging, gets its name from its reddish wrapper. Camacho Corojo Figurado (93 points, $9.80)ĭavidoff of Geneva acquired the Camacho cigar brand in 2008 from the Eiroa family and the various lines are now color-coded with bold fonts to distinguish each blend. ![]()
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