Oliva Serie V Cigars
With their consistently high ratings from Cigar Aficionado magazine, the Oliva Serie ‘V’, also known as ‘Ligero Especial’, are enchanting Nicaraguan origin premium cigars.
They are one of the most complex and full-bodied cigars available. The cigars offer an exotic taste of premium tobacco with rich coffee and dark chocolate tone. Subtle and well-balanced flavors of spice can also be experienced with each draw.
These amazing cigars were created by Jose Olivia, who alongside his family has long been in the tradition of tobacco growing, so as to guarantee a perfect cigar every time. Oliva Serie V Cigars feature a splendid, smooth blend of specially fermented ligero long-filler leaves from the Jalapa Valley in Nicaragua.
Read moreOliva Serie V is an exceptional full-bodied Nicaraguan Puro under the Oliva Cigars brand. Year after year, Oliva Serie V has been featured on the top cigar lists of industry-leading cigar reviewers. Thus, it is considered as the flagship cigar in the Oliva Cigars portfolio. Not just because it’s an Oliva stick but also because it’s a demonstration of Oliva’s excellence at blending Nicaraguan tobacco.
A Little History
Debuted in 2007, Oliva Serie V is the cigar that revealed Oliva Cigars to the international market. Several factors contributed to this eventuality. For starters, since Oliva Cigars joined the premium hand rolled market at the end of the 1990s cigar boom, the market was flooded and there were many startups. So, presenting a good cigar was not going to cut it. Oliva had to create an outstanding smoke and sell it at great value. So, from the get go, Oliva had to create better than good blends to survive.
Secondly, thanks to a long history of tobacco growing, Oliva already had tons of perfectly aged Nicaraguan tobacco. Fortunately for them, the cigar world was just discovering Nicaraguan tobacco. So, Oliva Cigars was perfectly positioned to present the best of Nicaraguan tobacco blends. This ultimately marked Oliva Cigars as the principal cigar company in blending Nicaraguan tobacco.
Third, the cigar market was growing and demanding a stronger type of smoke. Oliva Serie V is one of the few cigars that ushered the cigar industry into the age of strong, full-bodied cigars.
Oliva Serie V: Blend and Tasting Notes
Oliva Serie V is a Nicaraguan puro made entirely of high priming Ligero leaves. These are typically the leaves found on the top half of the tobacco plant. They are highly flavourful, oily, and heavy with moisture.
Filled with delicately aged fillers from the Jalapa region, Oliva Serie V dorns a milk-chocolate Habano Sun-grown wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder.
As far as flavour notes go, Oliva Serie V is what cigar lovers call a flavour bomb. Bold notes of coffee, cinnamon, creamy chocolate, cedar, peat, dry fruit, and light pepper feature all through the smoke. It’s a full-bodied smoke so the strength goes all the way. Cigar aficionados can’t run out of good things to say about this cigar no wonder even after a decade, Oliva Serie V still earns 90+ ratings.
Oliva Serie V comes in eight vitolas:
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No.4 (5x43)
About Oliva Cigars
Oliva Cigars began in 1880 as a tobacco growing family company run by Melanio Oliva. After years of growing and selling tobacco, Oliva Cigars was finally registered as a company in 1995 at the same time the first premium handmade Oliva cigar was released.
After decades of unprecedented success in the cigar industry, Oliva Cigars was acquired by J. Cortes Cigars N.V. a top machine-making cigar company headquartered in Europe. Many Oliva Cigar fans were worried about the quality of Oliva cigars after the acquisition. However, since acquiring Oliva Cigars, J. Cortes upgraded all of Oliva’s factories and farms in order to maintain the quality and meet the growing demand for Oliva Cigars. Oliva Cigars as a brand has continued to flourish even after being acquired by J. Cortes.