Oliva O ~ Churchill

**badwhale** · 06-10-2010, 11:28 PM

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Smoke: Oliva O ~ Churchill
Drink: Dogfishead 60min IPA
Tunes: None

Wrapper: Nicaraguan
Binder: Nicaraguan
Filler: Nicaraguan
Draw: Medium
Burn: Excellent
Misc: 60-90min

Pre-light: Maduro to Oscuro shade wrapper. Decent construction. Sweet tobacco scents and the foot looks like a lighter shade filler and binder. Leathery sweet tobacco flavor on the cut prelight taste.

Light: Easy. Medium draw, bordering on the tight draw.

1st 3rd: Oily. Leather, sweet tobacco flavors and a slightly bitter aftertaste. Not bad so far. Smooth and creamy.

Ash: Light gray with yellow twinge and some ash bubbles. Nice structure as it holds on for about 1 ½”

2nd 3rd: Draw has lightened up a bit into a solid medium. Sweet, smooth, creamy medium body. Full flavor. Leather, oil, and sweet. Nice. Has a bitter twinge on the aftertaste, but not offensive at all. Perfect burn.

3rd 3rd: Just gave it a purge. Same flavors. Maybe a little less creamy now. Some woodsy notes kicking in. Actually, this is a really mellow, smooth, yet flavorful smoke. Very nice.

Overall impression: I would definitely look for more of these and / or recommend them to people looking for a really smooth maduro cigar.

Thank you Smoked! for this one! Still from the original review sampler ;)

Will

**mrtr33** · 06-11-2010, 09:55 AM

Awesome review. I got turned on to these a few years ago through a pass - I think I picked up the double toro. Maybe I was smoking slow, but I remember putting the cigar down after 2 hours. It wasn't that I wasn't enjoying it, it just burned really damn slow.