Supreme Tobacco’s Bohekio Robusto and Secret Santa News

By now those who are participating in this year’s CigarCraig.com Secret Santa should have received their assignments. Please do your best to take care of your recipient promptly (says the worlds biggest procrastinator…it’s on my weekend project list, I promise!). It’s a small group, but I know everyone will have fun with it and brighten everyone’s holidays. I don’t need anything, by the way.

A few weeks ago the folks at Supreme Tobacco emailed asking me if I wanted to try their Bohekio cigar made in Haiti. I’ve heard some things about this cigar, and I was intrigued by something new. New cigars are becoming few and far between recently, so I was excited about this cigar. Here’s a quote from “JP” at Supreme Tobacco:

Our company Supreme Tobacco was founded in 2015 and this project began with a dream between friends to one day grow our own premium tobacco, place Haiti amongst the best growing countries and eventually make our first Haitian cigar with Haitian grown tobacco.

After several years of hard works and challenges, we launched this year in July at the PCA, our very first cigar, Bohekio.

I received a couple 5″ x 50 Robustos. the filler is a “Unique blend of finest tobacco grown in Haiti”, the binder is Olor Dominicana grown in Haiti and the wrapper is Sun grown Habano from the Dominican Republic. Interestingly, the first flavor I got off the pre-light, and the first half of the cigar was something akin to cola flavored Bottle Caps candy. Weird, right? Halfway through the second sample I got a strong cinnamon blast, but only for a short time. Overall it had a sweet flavor, and I liked it. The second sample burned perfectly, the first one was a little troublesome, it didn’t want to burn, the first two thirds of the cigar had the burn characteristics of kevlar. I had to relight it for just about every draw, up until about the last quarter, at which point it was too late. This is why evaluating a cigar based upon one sample is a bad idea, because the second one was excellent. Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, so it’s not too big a stretch to think that tobacco can’t grow there. I suppose it’s a question of infrastructure. Long story short, I liked the Bohekio. Many thanks to the folks at Supreme Tobacco for allowing me to sample these cigars. I’ll be picking up some other sizes after the holidays.