Nub by Oliva

Oliva's short, fat cigar built on the idea that a smoke's best third is its middle.

Nub was Sam Leccia's concept, made and later owned outright by Oliva: pack a full cigar's worth of tobacco into four inches so the flavor arrives immediately and stays. The line comes in Habano, Connecticut, Cameroon and Maduro wrappers over Oliva's Nicaraguan tobacco, and the construction is Oliva's — the long ash the brand is known for is real. The Nuance line is the same shape with a coffee infusion.