OLIVA –
Centuries of love for tobacco, cigars and lifeEach Oliva
cigar contains a piece of rich history that goes back many years  to 1886 where Melanio Oliva cultivated tobacco
in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. In the late 1950s, the grandson of the Gilberto Oliva
family was forced to leave his homeland and go to Nicaragua. Gilberto’s insistence
and constant search for the best tobacco led the 4th generation of the family
to turn these quality tobacco into handmade premium-quality cigars. Then they
joined forces with the Belgian Vandermarliere family, founders of J. Cortes,
who shared the same struggle for cigars, tradition and family. Since then, the
two grandsons  of the families, Fred and
Jose, are in the “steering wheel” keeping their traditions and
supporting each other on both sides of the Atlantic.