Bock Robusto test report

Bock Robusto and here is my test report. BOCK used to be a Cuban cigar brand and is also considered the inventor of the cigar ring. At some point, the brand disappeared. Towards the end of the 1990s, VILLIGER took over the brand and brought it back to life.

A cigar test is subjective

Note: How a cigar tastes is influenced by personal taste preferences, taste memories, the form of the day, what you have eaten or drunk beforehand. Even the lighting in the room has an influence on the flavour you experience. The notes described here therefore do not necessarily correspond to your own impressions.

Fact Sheet Bock Robusto

• Format: Robusto (length: 127 mm / ring gauge: 53)
• Tobacco:
  • Wrapper: Ecuador
  • Leaf: Indonesia
  • Filler: Dom. Republic
• Price: Status October 2021
  • CHF 11.10 / box of 20 CHF 222
  • EUR 5.80 / box of 20 EUR 126.00
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Personal impressions of the pleasure

Recommended acclimatisation: 3 days with cellophane in the humidor

First half

• Tongue, palate: Wood / slightly earthy / nutty / cocoa bittersweet / slightly acidic
• RetronasalPepper / Coffee beans
• R+ ZiZo vacuum technology: woody-sourish (very pleasant)
• Umami: roasty
• Strength 2/5

Second half

• More earth / more wood / nutty / more cocoa bittersweet / slightly acidic
• Thickness max. 3/5

Conclusion

The Bock Robusto impresses with very nice flavours in a very good balance. None of the flavours described above are unpleasantly predominant. Sometimes one flavour is more dominant than the other - a really great balance. In general, the two specimens I tested were rather tart and robust in flavour. This is not meant in a negative way. This cigar does not have a deep complexity, and that is not its claim.

The burn is occasionally crooked and I had to help with the flame on both specimens. Nothing dramatic. The cigar smoulders for a normal length of time. You just have to be a bit careful that it doesn't burn out. This is the case with most cigars.

The cigar gains a little more depth in the course of the first half. It becomes „rounder“, „softer“ and more full-bodied. It obviously needed a certain operating temperature - haha -. The second half becomes slightly stronger and individual flavour notes also increase.

These two specimens gave me a really nice, decent smoke.

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