Toasting and lighting were easy and produced volumes of smoke....
Certainly a cigar that grabs your attention from the beginning, even with the peppery pre-light flavor. The pepperiness continues when you light it and it has an added spiciness to it - very strong & powerful....
This is the fanciest cigar I have ever smoked - courtesy of my nice Father-in-Law on the occasion of our first born - he had these for at least 3 years & had saved a few for just such an occasion! The Gurkha packaging is awesome - each cigar comes in a thin cedar sheath and has a very elegant black & gold band around it and a black ribbon around the foot. Very classy. Its also a bit of a monster! It took us just under 3 hours to smoke them. ...
A friend of mine had these and offered me one to try as I hadn't actually smoked an Oliva before. The cigar has an free & easy draw and produced volumes of smoke. The initial taste was a pleasant mixture of a kind of mild spicy tang with a sweeter fruity flavor with it....
Burned pretty evenly and produced lots of smoke with a very pleasant aroma. ...
Beautiful pepper taste with a very nice kick of spice to it. There is also a hint of dark chocolate and all three flavors nicely combine. Starts off medium bodied....
The Flavor of the outer wrapper is one of the top 10 available today on the market. Many times you like the look and then the flavor is not the same much like ordering a steak Medium and looks great on the outside and they cooked it well done on the inside. With cigars its hard to add sauce to cover a bad blend....
The initial light on the Gol! is heavy coffee, dark chocolate, and leather. The coffee notes are dark - almost Kona-like which almost drown-out the leathery notes I thought I would taste more of. You can taste a hint of the sweet maduro wrapper as well. There was absolutely no bitterness to the beginning of this cigar. This cigar gets right to business. ...