Oliva Serie V Melanio Gran Reserva Limitada Soccer Edition Maduro

Description

The Oliva Serie V Melanio Gran Reserva Limitada World Cup 2026 Edition is a distinctive limited release created to celebrate the 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Combining Oliva’s highly regarded Serie V Melanio line with a unique football-inspired presentation, this release is designed to appeal to both cigar enthusiasts and collectors. The World Cup Edition features 24 specially aged Oliva Serie V Melanio Double Toro cigars, with each cigar measuring 6 inches by 60 ring gauge. The collection is divided evenly between Natural and Maduro versions. The Natural cigars feature an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, while the Maduro cigars use a Mexican San Andrés wrapper. Both blends incorporate Nicaraguan binder and filler tobaccos, produced in Nicaragua.

What sets this release apart is the additional aging. Oliva aged the cigars for three years after rolling, allowing the tobacco to develop greater depth and integration before being presented as part of this special edition. The Natural version is expected to deliver the rich character associated with the Serie V Melanio profile, including notes of coffee, spice, wood, and dark chocolate, while the Maduro brings deeper flavours of cocoa, espresso, toast, and earth. The cigars are housed in a striking wooden humidor shaped like a football, making the release especially memorable. Limited to only 5,000 humidors worldwide, the Oliva World Cup 2026 Edition is more than a premium cigar release—it is a commemorative piece celebrating one of the world’s biggest sporting events. Size: Double Toro 6 x 60 box pressed. Note: these are now shipping in plain packaging.

• Wrapper: Mexican San Andrés
• Binder: Nicaragua
• Filler: Nicaragua

About Oliva Cigars

Melanio Oliva cultivated his first tobacco crop in Pinar Del Rio, Cuba in 1886. His growing operations were suspended while he fought in the Cuban War of Independence. After returning from the war, Melanio resumed his tobacco growing operations. In the early l920’s Melanio’s son Facundo Oliva took over the growing operations. Facundo cultivated the Oliva family tobacco fields for several decades. As Cuba became overrun by the Communists, the tobacco landscape changed. Facundo’s son Gilberto Oliva shifted from growing to brokering tobacco. In the early 60’s the pressure became too great and Gilberto traveled from country to country in search of the conditions to recreate that distinctive Cuban taste.

His travels took him to Honduras, Panama, Mexico and even the Philippines. Gilberto finally found fertile ground in Nicaragua. Today Gilberto along with his family are Nicaragua’s second largest grower of Cuban-seed tobacco. Using these same time-tested methods of curing, blending, and rolling that built an empire, the Oliva cigar lineup has garnered tons of top ratings from industry experts and consumers alike, culminating with Cigar Aficionado Magazine awarding the Oliva Serie V Melanio Figurado Cigar of the Year in 2014.