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Review: OpusX Football

Ask anyone who has the slightest knowledge about OpusX cigars which cigar they would most like to smoke, and chances are the Fuente Fuente OpusX Football will be extremely high on the list. Yes, it’s an OpusX-banded cigar that is shaped like a football. While normal Fuente Fuente OpusX releases are highly sought after by [...]

Review: Arturo Fuente Unnamed Reserve 2012

About two weeks ago, we started hearing rumblings of a brand new Fuente blend that was being shipped to retailers. Almost nothing was known about the blend or size before they started showing up to stores, but we quickly confirmed that it uses a Sun Grown wrapper, and includes the same filler as the Don [...]

Review: OpusX Phantom (1994)

In late 1995, the Fuente Fuente OpusX cigars was officially released for the first time in seven different vitolas. They were an instant success and their popularity has only grown since then. In 2009, 14 years later, a bundle of extremely rare OpusX Phantoms, the name Fuente gives to its Lancero vitola, were put up [...]

Review: Arturo Fuente Don Arturo Aniversario Destino al Siglo Double Robusto (Prerelease)

Destino al Siglo, destiny of the century, was supposed to be the theme of 2012 for Arturo Fuente. The famed Tampa-based cigar maker was founded in 1912, making 2012 their 100th anniversary. It was no secret that Fuente was going to do something big for 100 years, the company originally slated the Don Arturo Gran [...]

Review: OpusX Toast Across America Figurado (2012)

Every year for the past 10 years, Fuente has partnered with J.C. Newman to produce the Toast Across America release for the pair’s Cigar Family Charitable Foundation. The cigars, which come in a coffin, including one OpusX and one Newman product, for $50 each with the proceeds from the sales benefit the foundation. Patrick’s review of the Diamond Crown [...]

Review: Don Carlos Edición de Aniversario 2007 Toro

In 2006, Prometheus started selling the first of many releases of the Don Carlos Edición de Aniversario, a cigar blended specifically to honor the 30th anniversary of the Don Carlos line of cigars. While it has many similarities to the Don Carlos blend, it supposedly uses the OpusX Rosado wrapper instead of the Cameroon wrapper used [...]

Review: Arturo Fuente W. Curtis Draper 125th Anniversary

In early October, Washington, D.C. retailer W. Curtis Draper released the Arturo Fuente W. Curtis Draper 125th Anniversary, the third cigar in a four part series celebrating their 125th anniversary, joining the Cabaiguan WCD 120 REDUX from Pete Johnson’s Havana Cellars and the La Aurora 100 Años. The quartet will be rounded out by a 6 x [...]

Review: OpusX Angel’s Share Robusto (Prerelease)

Last year at the IPCPR show in Las Vegas, we started hearing rumors that the Fuentes were working on a large number of different cigar releases to coincide with the company’s 100th anniversary this year. The first released example of this, came in December of 2011 with the launch of the extremely limited Fuente Fuente OpusX ForbiddenX [...]

Redux: Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story Maduro (2011)

The Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story Maduro has been one of the hardest cigars to find over the last fifteen years. That changed a bit last year, when it was introduced in very limited quantities at the IPCPR show in Las Vegas in 2011. As they have done with other cigars in the past, Fuente [...]

Redux: OpusX ForbiddenX 13 Nacimiento 1912

Midway through December of 2011, select Fuente retailers received a surprise release of a brand new ForbiddenX blend to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Arturo Fuente brand. Each box contained 13 cigars, and all had a secondary band with the number 13 inside a clock face on it. Fuente recently shipped a smaller second batch to retailers in [...]