Oliva Cigars

Cigar Review: Cain Maduro

October 7, 2009

I’ve smoke quite a few of the Cain Maduro over the past month, trying the three different sizes and determining which I liked best and nailing down the flavors. With work finally caught up and taking a week of vacation time to get busy with the site again.   Cain Cigars are made from a [...]

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Oliva Serie O – Cigar Links Edition 18

June 15, 2008

One of the frustrating things about running this site is that I have to keep trying new cigars when I’d rather be smoking something I know I like. I reviewed the Oliva Serie O Perfecto Sun Grown last year and have picked one up whenever I have the time to smoke something and not have to review it.

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Cigar Review: Sol Cubano Cuban Classic

May 19, 2008

The Sol Cubano Cuban Cabinet, made in Oliva’s factory in Esteli, Nicaragua, has an extremely smooth, slightly oily, vein-free Ecuadorian Habano wrapper. If you give it a whiff, you’ll definitely notice its nice sweet-and-spicy scent.

Once I lit up, I found the Cuban Cabinet had a great draw that was consistent through several sticks. Now, I’ve read some posts around the blogosphere complaining about the draw on this cigar. Since it’s still a pretty new blend, perhaps Fernandez is still working out the kinks. Anyway, you’ll get no complaints from me.

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Nub Habano 460 Cigar Review

April 3, 2008

Sam’s aim behind the Nub is to isolate the best part of each leaf and only use it in the cigars. While this makes for some rather short cigar the girth makes up for it. The 460 burns nearly as long as a Churchill.

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Cigar Links Edition 5: Oliva Serie V

February 9, 2008

The Oliva Serie V is one of the best cigars we saw come out in 2007. I remember the first time I tried these at a pre-release event. I stopped by The Party Source for the weekly tasting, found out it was moved down the road. Since I was already there I thought I might as well pick up a few cigars and grabbed the Oliva Serie V Figuardos and headed down to the Beer Sellar. Turns out the cigar being featured was the Oliva Serie V. Jose Oliva and Sam Leccia were on hand for the event.

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Flor de Oliva Cigar Review

January 3, 2008

Several weeks ago, I reviewed the Occidental Reserve, a bundle offering from Dania, Fla. based Alec Bradley. Since then, I’ve smoked some fairly expensive stogies. But it’s time to get back to reality. So for this installment, I give you the Flor de Oliva.

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Oliva Serie V Lancero Cigar Review

December 3, 2007

I reviewed the Oliva Serie V Figurado back in July and have been eagerly awaiting for my local shop to get their latest shipment. Finally, The Party Source got their shipment in and I get a chance to try Lancero that I’ve heard so much about on the cigar forums. The Oliva Serie V Lancero is just as well constructed as its larger brothers, but it isn’t as firm as the larger sizes. The prelight draw had a nice resistance on it, these small ring cigars can often tend to be tight, but I had no complaints with these. Even the prelight draw test had some interesting complexity to it, I picked up a mix of walnuts and sweet grassy flavors.

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Casada Toro Cigar Review

November 29, 2007

The first I’d heard of these cigars was when they showed up in my mail box from Tex Cigars. Originally created for one of his local tobacconists by Oliva Cigar, he is now also carrying them online. The Casada Toros I recieved had a nice looking Connecticut Shade Wrapper, the one pictured did have a larger vein running through it though. Other than that the stick is the same high quality I’ve some to expect from Oliva Cigar.

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Oliva Cigar Website Review

October 26, 2007

This is our second installment of the weekly cigar website review. This week I’m taking on the maker of some of my favorite cigars, Oliva Cigars. Cigar Information: A- Oliva does a good job of posting the details on their cigars, but I found a few things that were inaccurate. The most obvious one I [...]

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