Oliva Serie V Melanio Maduro Robusto (10)

Visit Oliva Serie V Melanio Maduro Robusto is a beautiful cigar which, with a length of 127 mm and a diameter of 20.6 mm (Robusto module and 52 ring gauge), guarantees excellent smoking pleasure for 45 to 75 minutes. Earthy tones and a high level of complexity spoil the aficionado towards the end of the cigar and keep you coming back for more.

The great success of the classic variant prompted the Oliva family to follow up with a dark series with a Mexican envelope San Andres Maduro. The name goes back to Melanio Oliva, grandfather of Gilberto Oliva, who is today considered the family patriarch. He was already growing tobacco in Cuba in 1886, and his son Hipolito followed him for several decades.

The father of the current generation of Oliva growers, Gilberto Senior, who to this day represents the eminence grise at tobacco fairs in the USA, had the difficult task of finding such suitable growing conditions after the exodus from Cuba. After several years of searching in Panama, the Philippines, Honduras and Mexico, among other places, he finally found perfectly suited soil in Nicaragua that met his requirements.