Mark Twain
Call me Ishmael.
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Oliva O Classic Ole
Nicaragua
5x50 robusto
Smoked in the late evening with family.
It was 9:30 p.m., and I was smoking the Ole with my brother, he smoked a PAM ’64 Principe, and we sat on our deck in MO in the hot stale air and watched the ceiling fan take the smoke into the night with the screech of cicadas all round us. He laughed at the cheap Ole at $4 compared to his PAM Principe at $8.50 a stick. He had to relight his cigar several times, the Ole remained lit for the entire smoke.
I bought a box of Ole’s nearly a year ago for under $100 and smoked most of them quickly and set them aside for better things as they were fairly unimpressive at the time. Fast-forward a year and I noticed eight of these 5x50 beauties tucked into the corner of one of my humidors. The year of age and bed rest at the bottom of my humidor has completely changed the character of the cigar.
The cigar drew well at the beginning of my smoke and stayed consistently smooth throughout. The Ole seems earthy on the first draw, it has gained much character and the ash is a deep white that hangs to the cigar for a good inch before it falls off, leaving a core of black and brown ash in a circle of gray ash. Some cigars are noted for tastes of coca or cedar, but the pattern of taste that remained consistent in the Ole was a mix of wood and earth and the smoke came into my mouth with a smoothness that rolled off the tongue and left a creamy taste long afterwards that I cannot describe.
The smoke lasted over an hour. The only problem I had with the cigar is that the secondary “classic” wrapper had to be removed for a complete smoke. After the Ole was laid to rest in the ashtray I was left with an intense feeling of regret for smoking far too many of them in their young age and not giving them the chance to show their potential.
A damn shame oliva has discontinued this line.
Nicaragua
5x50 robusto
Smoked in the late evening with family.
It was 9:30 p.m., and I was smoking the Ole with my brother, he smoked a PAM ’64 Principe, and we sat on our deck in MO in the hot stale air and watched the ceiling fan take the smoke into the night with the screech of cicadas all round us. He laughed at the cheap Ole at $4 compared to his PAM Principe at $8.50 a stick. He had to relight his cigar several times, the Ole remained lit for the entire smoke.
I bought a box of Ole’s nearly a year ago for under $100 and smoked most of them quickly and set them aside for better things as they were fairly unimpressive at the time. Fast-forward a year and I noticed eight of these 5x50 beauties tucked into the corner of one of my humidors. The year of age and bed rest at the bottom of my humidor has completely changed the character of the cigar.
The cigar drew well at the beginning of my smoke and stayed consistently smooth throughout. The Ole seems earthy on the first draw, it has gained much character and the ash is a deep white that hangs to the cigar for a good inch before it falls off, leaving a core of black and brown ash in a circle of gray ash. Some cigars are noted for tastes of coca or cedar, but the pattern of taste that remained consistent in the Ole was a mix of wood and earth and the smoke came into my mouth with a smoothness that rolled off the tongue and left a creamy taste long afterwards that I cannot describe.
The smoke lasted over an hour. The only problem I had with the cigar is that the secondary “classic” wrapper had to be removed for a complete smoke. After the Ole was laid to rest in the ashtray I was left with an intense feeling of regret for smoking far too many of them in their young age and not giving them the chance to show their potential.
A damn shame oliva has discontinued this line.
