Cigar Aficionado recently published its Top 25 cigars of 2025. The Serie V Melanio Robusto is ranked number 18 with a 94 rating.
This is what Cigar Aficionado said about the Oliva Serie V Melanio Maduro Robusto:
When Oliva Cigar Co. released Serie V in 2007, the brand was not only the company’s most full-bodied offering to date, but it showcased the complexity of Nicaraguan tobacco.
The V stands for vigoroso, or “strong” in Spanish. Serie V evolved in 2012 with the Melanio line, an elegantly blended cigar in an Ecuadoran Sumatra wrapper.
The box-pressed Maduro line takes Melanio into darker territory with a Mexican wrapper. It gives the cigar an alternative yet equally polished character that’s clearly rendered in the Robusto size, which shows a core of dark chocolate, raisin and caramel underscored by a mineral quality from first puff to last.
