Bolivar (D.R.)

The Dominican Bolivar was reintroduced at the 2005 RTDA show as the boldest entry in General Cigar's portfolio, wearing a thick Honduran San Agustin Ligero wrapper and a Connecticut-grown Medio Tiempo binder that also appears on the Partagas Black Label. The filler blends Dominican tobacco with Nicaraguan leaf from Esteli and the remote volcanic island of Ometepe, creating a full-bodied, complex profile that punches hard from the first third. It shares the famous Bolivar name with the legendary Cuban original but charts its own course as a New World powerhouse.