Oliva Serie O Double Toro Review

The Double Toro is the big one - a 6 by 60 gordo that swells the Serie O to its fattest ring, and that girth changes everything. Mine wore the Ecuadorian Sun Grown Habano wrapper, a broad chocolate-brown expanse with light oil, packed generously across that wide 60 ring under a rounded cap. The point of a gordo is proportion: far more filler under the leaf, so the blend reads filler-forward, cool and plush rather than wrapper-driven. The cold draw was wide and easy, cedar and cocoa with a deep sweetness - the mellowest, most cushioned start of any size in the line.

The Double Toro opens cool and unhurried - the 60 ring holds so much filler that the smoke comes plush and rounded, cedar and cocoa arriving soft and full with the sweet spice cushioned underneath. There's no heat, no sharpness; the wide ring keeps the temperature low and the volume high. It's medium in strength but big in body and smoke. My draw was wide open, almost effortless, pushing a thick billowing cloud, and the burn drew a broad, slightly wavy line across that big foot. The ash built into a heavy, dense grey slab that I watched carefully on the wide ring.

The middle is pure gordo comfort. The cocoa deepens and rounds, cedar fills the wide body, a roasted-coffee note builds slow and full, and the sweetness sits like brown sugar cushioned by all that filler - the profile is the same core, but plusher and more filler-forward than the robusto ever gets. The 60 ring runs cool across a long eighty-five minutes, so nothing sharpens or scorches. My burn needed one touch-up where the broad line wandered, then tracked fine; the heavy ash stacked dense before I knocked it. This is the O at its most relaxed and voluminous.

The last third rounds the coffee and cedar out fully, the sweetness holding deep and a soft earthiness joining underneath, the body staying comfortably medium and plush even near the wide nub. My verdict: the Double Toro is the Serie O gone big, cool and cushioned - the 60 ring makes it filler-forward, low on heat and high on smoke volume, the most relaxed way to smoke the blend over a long stretch. The honest caveat is that the gordo trades definition for plushness and the wide burn wants watching, but for a smoker who wants the O cool, thick and long, this is the size.