Oliva V churchill

[Don Fernando]

This 7 1/4 inch ring 52 Churchill by Oliva has a beautiful, medium dark, oily wrapper with some minor veins. The construction feels good and when I smell the cigar I notice a mild peppery aroma. The predraw is just fine and leaves a flavor of wood and raisin on my palate. This cigar at least 3 years old, as I bought it 3 years ago and it has been in my humidor at 67%RH since.



I get a pleasant coffee flavor with a mild leather from the first puffs and after an inch I get some earthy flavors as well with the famous Oliva sweetness but then the coffee disappears.



After 2 inch the aftertaste is creamy chocolate. Halfway I can taste herbs with some black pepper and the aftertaste are the earthy flavors with some leather, all the other flavors that I mentioned before are gone



The flavors grow a little in strength and after 2/3rd a freshness joins the herbal flavors. The herbal flavors are slowly becoming the dominant flavors and the freshness stays until I have to put the cigar in the ashtray to die a peaceful death.



The draw is flawless and the burn is almost as straight as an arrow. The cigar produces a lot of smoke, which is white but with a bluish glare to it. The ash is almost white. I would call this cigar full bodied and medium to full flavored.



Would I buy this cigar again? Yes, this is a very good cigar.

Appearance: 8 / 10
Construction: 7 / 10
Draw: 7 / 10
Burn: 7 / 10
Smoke & ash: 8 / 10
Aroma first part: 8 / 10
Aroma second part: 8 / 10
Aroma third part: 8 / 10