Bond Roberts Línea D No. 01 109 Cigar Review

The Bond Roberts Línea D No. 01 109 is one of the more talked-about new world releases in recent memory, and for good reason.

Bond Roberts began life as an online cigar auction platform before pivoting to produce its own line. The brand was founded by the owners of J.J. Fox, the famous cigar retailer, alongside Friends of Habanos, an Australian online cigar store. For their cigars, they brought in Hamlet Paredes as blender, a name well known in the industry for his background working with Partagás tobacco. Paredes reportedly developed close to forty blends before settling on the final version, with the stated ambition of producing a cigar capable of going up against the Partagás Lusitania, his personal benchmark.

Production is handled by Oscar Valladares Tobacco and Co. in Honduras, at the facility known as Fabrica 5. The No. 01 is a 7 1/4 x 50 cigar, placing it firmly in large format territory, somewhere between a Churchill and a double Corona. It uses a Honduran wrapper and binder over a blend of Honduran and Nicaraguan fillers, and features a 109 style cap, a hybrid between the round cap of a standard parejo and the pointed tip of a belicoso. The packaging is handled with equal care, available in boxes of 10, 25, and 50, with the 10 count box arriving in a cardboard sleeve. The retail price sits at $21 per cigar.

Whether the cigar lives up to the ambition behind it is what our latest review sets out to answer. Watch the full video above.