NOTES:
Unchanged. Consistency, thy name is this cigar. Just go read the original write-up: Gilberto Oliva Reserva Blanc - Cigar Review. Ditto all that there, here. Really a lovely stick.
Those whom subscribe to my Gentlepersons Weekly Newsletter were greeted by the most recent edition bearing news of art. Art coming to this blog courtesy of moi. Funny thing. I seem unable to art. So, defeated, I took an old schmatta (remember those?) and began to wipe up the charcoal, chalk, graphite, and cigar ash mess of the morning's activities. Below is what occurred. (Click to enlarge each, per yer desire.)
[Art.]
WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Connecticut
BINDER: Ecuadorian
FILLER: Nicaraguan
STRENGTH: Medium
FORMAT: Toro
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
BINDER: Ecuadorian
FILLER: Nicaraguan
STRENGTH: Medium
FORMAT: Toro
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
FINAL (REDUX) GRADE: A
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
The below is from Cigar News Weekly Report: December 17, 2017
Report a typo, win a No-prize.A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
The below is from Cigar News Weekly Report: December 17, 2017
GILBERTO OLIVA, SR: DEAD AT 86
The Oliva Cigar Co. founder has died. May his memory be for a blessing.
With familial tobacco roots in 1886 Cuba, Gilberto Oliva fled there during the Cuban revolution to begin work as a tobacco broker in Nicaragua. In the 1970s, because of another revolution, he fled there as well; returning in '95 to start his own self-named brand. Post-boom, he shifted focus to growing, prolifically-so. Retaining those operations even when all else was sold to J. Cortes last year. Cigar-wise, in 2006, with the launching of the Oliva Serie V, brand met map. Soon-after, the NUb, and Cain revolutionized the traditional mother-brand, and the industry writ large. In a score's-time, the company became one of the largest; Esteli cigar and box factory, to boot.
"A Pooper-Scooper" Kaplowitz Radio: December 13, 2017