Cigar Review: Oliva Master Blends 3

As I was thumbing through the reviews that we have done here at Cigar Command, and I noticed that Ricky had put up a Master Blends 2 review, but the Master Blends 3 had not yet been reviewed, so I thought I would smoke this thing and give you a guys a review on it, so here we go!

Pre-Light: As I took at look at this cigar, the first thing I noticed was the hugely ornate band surrounding this stick.  The band was full of colors and great looking!  As i ran it across my nose, I got some nice leathery smells, along with a slight sweetness and floral smell.  I cut it with my ever trusty Palio cutter, and took a pre-light draw.  I got the same leather and floral tastes on pre light draw, as well as some slight sweetness.  My mind was telling me, this was going to be a tasty smoke!

1/3:  As I started on the first third, I was hit hard with the sweet and floral flavors, with the leather and a little bit of earthy flavors in the background.  As you can see by the picture, the rollers at the Oliva factory certainly know how to roll a cigar.  The ash was perfect, and the cigar was burning perfectly straight.  The smoke was billowing, and so far, I am really enjoying this cigar.

2/3:  As I continued through this cigar, it kept on changing on me.  The floral taste pulled back a bit, and the earthy flavors came through full force.  This was a great taste that I enjoy in just about every cigar I smoke.  The ash was holding tight, and continued to hold tight until about the 1/2 way point.  I ashed it just before the band, only because I didn’t want to risk it falling all over me.  I am confident that if I had taken the band off before lighting it up, I could have gotten the ash to stay on the cigar down to the nub, but I didn’t want to chance it, so I ashed it into my stinky ashtray.

3/3:  As I was finishing up this cigar, I noticed that the floral tasted decided it got tired of being in the background, and came back full force.  This time, with almost TOO much floral taste.  I am not usually a big fan of big floral taste, and this floral taste was the same way.  The earthy flavors fell off almost completely, and the floral taste was a bit overpowering, but I powered through it to the nub, just to give an accurate review.

Overall Impression:  Overall, this was a very enjoyable cigar until I got to the end, but thats just my personal taste preference talking.  I only ashed the cigar twice through the entire thing, and it was a solid smoke that was pretty tasty most of the way through.  I highly recommend that everyone try this cigar at least once.  I enjoyed most of it, and I would have no problem smoking more of them.

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   ironmeden says:

   July 24, 2008 at 10:10 pm

   This is a damn good smoke. I know what you mean by the floral notes, it almost reminds of a Gurkha. You’ll pay a little bit more then a regular Oliva, but it’s well worth price
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   Jimmie The Mum says:

   July 26, 2008 at 1:32 pm

   Nice review. I also have some MBs 2 & 3s. I smoked the 3s and agree with your review except I didn’t have that strong florak taste at the end. I will need time to smoke that big Nbr. 2 tho.