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News: STUDIO TOBAC 2013 World Tour Sampler Comes to Light

The third iteration of Oliva’s STUDIO TOBAC event sampler is here. Yesterday, multiple Oliva executives posted pictures of the STUDIO TOBAC 2013 World Tour Sampler. National Sales Manger Ian Hummel posted the following photograph on Twitter: Cain Daytona NUb 460 Cain F 550 STUDIO TOBAC CTP-013 Toro Padilla/STUDIO TOBAC Figurado STUDIO TOBAC SGP-013 Toro Cain [...]

Review: Oliva Master Blends 3 Corona Gorda

In 2003, Oliva released the first in the Master Blends line, followed by the Master Blends 2 in 2005 and the Master Blends 3 in 2006. Intended to be the flagship line of the brand, the length of updates since the introduction of Master Blends 3 has meant it has fallen slightly out of notoriety [...]

News: Executive Changes at Oliva

Oliva’s management structure is shuffling. Amongst the January 1, 2013 changes,  current VP of Sales Dave Wagner will become Director of Operations. Cory Bappert, a senior account executive with Oliva, will succeed Wagner as VP of Sales. Meanwhile, Jeff Nolen and Ian Hummel will both assume the role of National Sales Managers. Sales representatives were [...]

Review: Oliva Serie V Culebra

(Editor’s Note: Like yesterday, history by Charlie, review is written by Brooks. — Charlie) For those of you that don’t know… In 2007 Oliva released their popular Oliva Serie V line to great fanfare. By all accounts, the Serie V is Oliva’s signature cigar that has been offered in thirteen vitolas publicly not excluding the [...]

Review: Cain Daytona Maduro 646 (Preproduction)

Here we are at day four of the Oliva/Studio Tobac test blend week and I must say it’s been really fun trying out these cigars with the different wrappers; it really gives you insight on what really makes a certain blend work and possibly what could make it work better. Today we are looking at [...]

Review: Oliva Serie V Maduro Lancero (Preproduction)

As I said in my first review, while chatting with Ian Hummel and Bryan Scholle of Oliva/Studio Tobac fame at the IPCPR Show in Las Vegas earlier in the year, it came to light that Bryan (who rolls cigars at Studio Tobac events) rolls quite a few different combinations of blends for attendees of said events. Ian sent me a few [...]

Review: Oliva Serie V Maduro No.4 (Preproduction)

Today we will be taking a look at the second installment in our Oliva test blend week, the Oliva Serie V Maduro No.4! As Brooks has stated, Ian Hummel was gracious enough to send us a few blends they have been playing around with for fun, among those being the Oliva Serie V Maduro No.4. [...]

Review: Studio Tobac CC-001 (Preproduction)

While chatting with Ian Hummel and Bryan Scholle of Oliva/Studio Tobac fame at the IPCPR Show in Las Vegas earlier in the year, it came to light that Bryan (who rolls cigars at Studio Tobac events) rolls quite a few different combinations of blends for attendees of said events. Well, I thought that was pretty [...]

Review: Studio Tobac ST-DS001

Today we will be taking a look at another cigar from the current Studio Tobac Sampler, the ST-DS001 (Studio Tobac Dark Side). I have made it my plan to review a different cigar from the sampler every week with last weeks being the NUb San Andres. This week’s cigar also features a San Andres Maduro [...]

Weekly News (January 31, 2011)

Can he do it? Will he do it…? Yepp, another week, another Viaje LE announcement. Nope, I’m not kidding. It marks the seventh sixth (I really thought there were seven) announcement of a new Viaje product this month joining the: Exclusivo Chiquito, Exclusivo Shorts, WLP, Late Harvest and Trifecta. The stick? You’re going to have [...]