Oliva Soccer Ball Serie V Melanio Natural 6″ x 60

For the 2026 World Cup, Oliva packed 24 Serie V Melanio Double Toros into a humidor shaped like a soccer ball, 12 Natural and 12 Maduro. This is the Natural, sold here as a single without the humidor. The cigar is the same Melanio Double Toro Oliva makes all year, finished with a secondary band that carries a soccer ball and appears only in this release.

Under the bands it is a box-pressed 6 x 60: an aged Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and Jalapa filler, medium to full in body. The wide ring keeps the smoke cool, opening on cedar and cinnamon before coffee comes forward, with caramel and nutmeg on the finish.

Oliva made 5,000 of the humidors, so the banded cigar turns up far less often than the regular Double Toro. Give it a long sitting; at this size it runs well over an hour.

Pairs well with bourbon, espresso, or cognac.