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Oliva Serie V Maduro update
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Atlasm
I'll sleep when I'm dead
i called MoM's in scarsdale, he had no idea they were even being made.
Same with Barclay Rex on Lex. :sign:
The 1st review is up! For a full review, check out:
http://www.stogiereview.com/
You can also check out the time Jose spent with David Savona here:
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Bl...695,320,00.html
Smoking a New Oliva
Posted: 11:24 AM ET, October 08, 2008
Oliva Cigar Co. has been making cigars since 1995, but it really popped up on my radar screen three years ago when I noticed their value-priced cigars scoring well in Cigar Insider and Cigar Aficionado. The one that really caught my interest was a $4.50 robusto called the Oliva “O” Classic Olé. It was named our No. 9 Cigar of the Year in January 2006. You have to love a world-class cigar with a suggested retail price of less than $5.
Oliva has been doing very well lately, and last year the company took the No. 4 slot on our Top 25 with the release of the Oliva Serie V line. Last week, Oliva vice president Jose Oliva came by the Cigar Aficionado office to show me what he calls “the maduro interpretation” of the cigar, the new Oliva Serie V Maduro Especial. It’s made with a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper around Nicaraguan filler and binder, and it’s pretty damn tasty. I shot a little video of the cigar, about ten minutes into the smoke, and had Jose talk about it. Check it out.
Broadleaf takes me back to my roots. Back when I was in college, I smoked Muniemaker Breva 100s, machine-made cigars (100 percent tobacco machine mades, not the type made with a zillion flavorings, the ones that are wrapped with something that looks like brown paper) that were wrapped in dark, rugged broadleaf. So I tend to enjoy the sweet, rugged flavor broadleaf imparts to a cigar.
The Serie V Maduro is excellent. It has some cocoa, coffee bean and raisin flavors, with a lot of spice. I found it delicious. It burned beautifully and was exceptionally well made. I didn’t score it, but it would have done well.
The first Serie V maduros will ship next week. You can read a little more about the cigars in yesterday’s Cigar Insider.
http://www.stogiereview.com/
You can also check out the time Jose spent with David Savona here:
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Bl...695,320,00.html
Smoking a New Oliva
Posted: 11:24 AM ET, October 08, 2008
Oliva Cigar Co. has been making cigars since 1995, but it really popped up on my radar screen three years ago when I noticed their value-priced cigars scoring well in Cigar Insider and Cigar Aficionado. The one that really caught my interest was a $4.50 robusto called the Oliva “O” Classic Olé. It was named our No. 9 Cigar of the Year in January 2006. You have to love a world-class cigar with a suggested retail price of less than $5.
Oliva has been doing very well lately, and last year the company took the No. 4 slot on our Top 25 with the release of the Oliva Serie V line. Last week, Oliva vice president Jose Oliva came by the Cigar Aficionado office to show me what he calls “the maduro interpretation” of the cigar, the new Oliva Serie V Maduro Especial. It’s made with a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper around Nicaraguan filler and binder, and it’s pretty damn tasty. I shot a little video of the cigar, about ten minutes into the smoke, and had Jose talk about it. Check it out.
Broadleaf takes me back to my roots. Back when I was in college, I smoked Muniemaker Breva 100s, machine-made cigars (100 percent tobacco machine mades, not the type made with a zillion flavorings, the ones that are wrapped with something that looks like brown paper) that were wrapped in dark, rugged broadleaf. So I tend to enjoy the sweet, rugged flavor broadleaf imparts to a cigar.
The Serie V Maduro is excellent. It has some cocoa, coffee bean and raisin flavors, with a lot of spice. I found it delicious. It burned beautifully and was exceptionally well made. I didn’t score it, but it would have done well.
The first Serie V maduros will ship next week. You can read a little more about the cigars in yesterday’s Cigar Insider.
CigarStone
For once, knowledge is making me poor!
Thanks for the update Ian.
I hear that the hand in your avatar the one and only Matt W.?
I hear that the hand in your avatar the one and only Matt W.?
themoneycollector
Jokester
When does Oliva hope to have these in regular stock at B&M's? Even the regular 'v' can be hard to find.
uptown_isy
The Man Uptown
Apparently, allocation will vary from store to store. Some won't even be getting any of them.
pub spears
New Member
Grabbed a couple at one of my locals today. Only slightly darker than original V and a little longer than the original torp. Looking foward to having one tonight and another with a little age. I think they were marked $8.50.
The one place i found them online wanted 90/box plus 40 tax. i passed on it. Hoping i can find some around your price. id be willing to pay 90 for a box. but 140 in total i thought to be excessive.
mjbuchanan80
New Member
$40 in TAX!!!! The one great thing about living in Missouri...low tobacco taxes (relatively speaking of course).
uptown_isy
The Man Uptown
:thumbs: I posted on someone else's review, but I love 'em. So much so that a bought a couple of boxes. Cigar seemed stronger then the regular v line.
I'm hoping, after they rest a bit, that the sweetness of the maduro wrapper comes out a little more to balance the spiciness.
I'm hoping, after they rest a bit, that the sweetness of the maduro wrapper comes out a little more to balance the spiciness.
uptown_isy
The Man Uptown
MaxNoodle
I am that which is.
Isy do you have these??? What are you sellingthem for...PM me price shipped if you do.
Thanks!!
~ t
I think they are great, I smoked one and put the other nine down to rest.