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Redux: Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Lancero

The Don Carlos Lancero is a cigar that I should like. Up until December 2011, the Don Carlos Lancero was a rather rare specimen reserved for Casa Fuente, Prometheus releases and other limited fashions that meant walking into a B&M and purchasing a box was out of the question. Truth be told, for the most [...]

Review: Opus X Forbidden X 13 God’s Whisper 1924

Today is a review of yet another one of the Forbidden X 13 releases, or Forbidden 13. The God’s Whisper 1924 is perhaps the most intriguing of the six releases because it is by all accounts erroneously listed in the Fuente price list. As Brooks noted in his review of the Opus X Forbidden X 13 [...]

Review: Casa Fuente Double Robusto

This will be sixth cigar we’ve reviewed that is exclusive to the legendary Casa Fuente, yet it’s only the third Casa Fuente release. Despite being the first cigar ever reviewed on SmokingStogie and being reviewed on TheCigarFeed, we seem to be missing a definitive history on the Casa Fuente line. Casa Fuente is a cigar [...]

Review: Opus X Forbidden X 13 Nacimiento 1912

For those of you that don’t know… Midway through December of 2011, some interesting boxes of Fuente products started showing up at various stores across the country with nearly no forewarning at all. Almost nothing was known about these cigars when they were released and people on the boards and Twitter had a field day [...]

Review: Opus X Scorpio Maduro

For those of you that don’t know… In November of 2011 Fuente released its latest version of the popular The Fuente Story humidors. In commemoration of the 99th anniversary of the Arturo Fuente Cigar Company, Fuente released 2,011 travel humidors produced by Prometheus, made of Macassar ebony and including four different  (fairly rare) cigars. The [...]

Review: Opus X Forbidden X Maduro Phantom

In 2002, Arturo Fuente and Prometheus teamed up to release the Prometheus 2002 Limited Edition FFOX Forbidden X Humidors. They were described as the tenth anniversary for Fuente’s Opus X, however, most will remember that while the Rosado wrapper used for Opus X was planted in 1992, it wasn’t released until 1995. The release contained [...]

Review: Opus X Forbidden X Maduro Robusto

For those of you that don’t know… Ask anyone who has been smoking cigars a while, and most likely, an Opus X Maduro will top the list of cigars they want to smoke before they die. Made in EXTREMELY limited quantities, when you can find them for sale (usually on the secondary market), they are [...]

Review: Arturo Fuente Hemingway Untold Story Cameroon

For those of you that don’t know… As just about any serious cigar smoker (collector) knows, the Fuentes are the undisputed kings of rolling one-off (or as close to one-off that it does not matter) cigars. Quite a few of these special blends (for example: the Short Story Maduro, Best Seller Maduro, Don Carlos Senior [...]

Review: Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story Maduro (2011)

For those of that don’t know… Ah, the Short Story Maduro. A cigar of myth and legend, that many people never even knew existed, and was only handed out in minuscule quantities over a period of years. Until now, I exaggerate a bit, but not by much… About three months ago, rumors started flying fast [...]

Review: Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Lancero

Much like the Oliva Serie V Lancero, this should be a cigar that is going to be an absolute winner for yours truly. Cameroon + Fuente + Lancero = magic, or at least it did with the Casa Fuente Lancero. The Don Carlos Lancero is a bit more mysterious than perhaps even more than the [...]