Oliva Serie V Melanio (CRW)

[JoeyBones777]

I didn't see any guidelines against NC's so if this doesn't count, so be it. I've been revisiting some NC's I've enjoyed in the past and decided to grab this one recently. Draw and burn are near perfect. Flavors start out with earth, black pepper, dark chocolate and a little sweetness. Retrohale is fairly smooth surprisingly. Around the halfway mark things ramp up quite a bit, especially with the earthiness. This earthiness is deep and imbalanced. This is where Nicaraguan tobaccan has a very hard time competing with Cuban. BBF tend to be bold and earthy but cleaner and balanced like mushroom/moss/forest floor, while this tends to be in your face and dirty, leaving your palette feeling filthy. There are some, albeit very few NC's that do earthy well, some Dominicans and very few Nicaraguans, but this isn't one of them unfortunately. It easily overpowered any sweetness that might balance it out. While there were other flavors there they didn't redeem the cigar. Construction was phenomenal and smoke time was an ample 2+ hours but the score, 82. Parts of it were enjoyable but not my bag.

[vhampl03]

What vitola was this? I really like the figurado....my fav NC fwiw....not a Cuban but nice for a change

[WABOOM]

I like the Melanio quite a bit. Especially the churchill like it appears you smoked here.

[JoeyBones777]

12 hours ago, vhampl03 said:

What vitola was this? I really like the figurado....my fav NC fwiw....not a Cuban but nice for a change

 

3 hours ago, WABOOM said:

I like the Melanio quite a bit. Especially the churchill like it appears you smoked here.

This was the churchill. It started off nice and I remember liking the figurado. Maybe it was just a bad one.