From the website of Oliva: “The Oliva Serie V Melanio is hand rolled using expertly fermented ligero fillers, leaves known for their robust and rich flavor. Five years in the making, this special cigar is sure to exceed a premium cigar smoker’s highest expectations.
Blending Notes: The Serie V is full flavored yet smooth. The long filler tobaccos are a blend of Oliva Nicaraguan Habano that emphasizes tobacco from the Jalapa region, an area known for a more nuanced leaf than the Esteli or Condega regions. This carefully aged Jalapa blend produces a particularly flavored smoke.”
Kyle Parsons (verified owner) –
This cigar is delicious! Medium body, perfect burn, draw and construction. This is definitely a special occasion cigar, and did not let me down at all. Quickly became one of my favorites. Highly recommend you try one if you haven’t already!
gugu –
very sweet but not a flavored or infused stick. heavy chocolate smooth cream notes with some roasted nut and hints of leather with a very unique lingering sweetness. hard not to smoke fast
Timothy Bowles –
Recently tried this for the first time. It rapidly became a top two for me. I’m no cigar tasting expert, I just know what tastes good to me. With that being said, this cigar tasted outstanding. Smooth on the palette, no hot hits even on a long draws. Even nearing the end when it was burning my fingers, the draws never got hot and stayed smooth. Nice gentle chocolate notes throughout the smoking and I swear I tasted a bit of caramel. Mine wasn’t peppery or spicy which I appreciated. Plenty of smoke was delivered with each draw and it wasn’t necessary to overdraw to get a nice full puff out of it.
Finishing the cigar took a solid 90 minutes of shear pleasure and enjoyment that went by way to quickly. It did not leave that tarry cigar taste that lingers in your mouth like many lower quality cigars do. Much like how bad tequila leaves an insult in your mouth way past the next day.
This cigar leaves you with feeling as if you’ve not just smoked a cigar. Which to me is awesome because I lit up another shortly after.
Joel Smith (verified owner) –
This cigar was awesome! The construction was perfect. Burn was excellent. The flavors were robust and smooth. A very enjoyable smoke from start to finish. Will definitely be buying more of these.
Matteo (verified owner) –
Agree with all other reviewers. 5 stars all the way. Medium plus, smooth, cool smoke with earth, leather, roasted coffee bean, and hints of dark chocolate. Mellow spices on the finish to go along with the excellent construction.
Stuart McDonald (verified owner) –
Perfect cigar. The benchmark of a Nicaraguan stick. Excellent smoke from start to finish and much better than some of the Cubans (not fake!) in my humidor.
Try pairing this with a fizzy orange, do not ask me why, but I did it by accident and it amplifies the flavour of the cigar 200% – strange I know, but do not judge until you have tried it!