Oliva Serie V Melanio Figuarado

HISTORY

Melanio Oliva first grew tobacco in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, in 1886, and Oliva Cigars remain one of the most influential cigar makers in Nicaragua. Their award-winning excellent cigars have featured in Cigar Aficionado and Cigar Journal Cigars of the Year, year after year, reaching the peak of No. 1 Cigar of the Year in 2014 with the Oliva Serie V Melanio Figurado. In the same year, Oliva was the first New World Cigar maker to be awarded the prestigious UK Cigar Producer of the Year at a special award ceremony in London and in 2021, Serie V Melanio Figurado was named UK Cigar of the Year.

Across their ranges of the smooth Flor de Oliva blend, mild and smooth Serie O, the dark sweetness of Serie G and the beautiful oily Sun Grown wrapper on the full-bodied and complex Serie V, there is a cigar across all flavour profiles and budgets for every connoisseur to enjoy.

SERIE V MELANIO

Serie V Melanio is hand-rolled using expertly fermented ligero fillers, leaves known for their robust and rich flavour. Five years in the making, these special cigars are sure to exceed a premium cigar smoker’s highest expectations.

This skill and dedication were rewarded in 2014 when the Serie V Melanio Figurado was named Cigar of the Year by Cigar Aficionado, and in 2021, the same cigar was named UK Cigar of the Year at a special ceremony in London.

These cigars are full-flavoured yet smooth with rich, big notes of leather framed by a range of coffee, caramel and woody intonations. The long filler tobaccos are a blend of Oliva Nicaraguan Habano that emphasises tobacco from the Jalapa region, an area known for a more nuanced leaf than the Estelí or Condega regions.

The carefully aged Jalapa blend produces a particularly flavoured smoke.

CIGAR INFORMATION

Country of Origin: Nicaragua

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian

BINDER: Nicaraguan

FILLER: Nicaraguan

Flavour profile: Full-Bodied

Vitola: Figuarado

Size: 52 ring gauge, 6 1/2 inches

Smoking time: 60 minutes