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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: 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: 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 [...]

News: Fuente Delays Release of 100th Anniversary Cigars

Arturo Fuente announced the delay of a number of cigars intended for release this year that were part of the company’s 100th anniversary. A graphic announcing the delay welcomed visitors to the company’s website on Friday, and Carlito Fuente noted the delay on his Facebook page: To Our Friends, There are times when fate has other [...]

Review: Arturo Fuente Don Arturo Gran AniverXario Belicoso (Sun Grown)

For those that enjoyed Brooks’ review of the Arturo Fuente Don Arturo Gran AniverXario Gran Corona (Natural), below is about 2,000 words that are identical to that work. At the 2011 IPCPR show, Prometheus showed off the 2011 Limited Edition Fuente Story Humidor, a special release of the previously released Arturo Fuente Don Arturo Gran AniverXario in [...]

Review: Arturo Fuente Don Arturo Gran AniverXario Gran Corona (Natural)

At the 2011 IPCPR show, Prometheus showed off the 2011 Limited Edition Fuente Story Humidor, a special release of the previously released Arturo Fuente Don Arturo Gran AniverXario in a total of ten sizes, including eight new shapes. This was the second Prometheus release of the Don Arturo Gran AniverXario in 2011, as they previously [...]

Review: OpusX ForbiddenX 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: Casa Fuente Lancero

There are three retail stores that the Fuente family is associated with: Tampa Sweetheart’s in Ybor City; Holt’s in Philadelphia and Casa Fuente located in the Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas. Each of the three stores have their own exclusive cigars made at Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia, albeit the (two) formermost’s exclusives [...]

Review: Arturo Fuente Don Arturo Gran AniverXario (Sun Grown)

Over the past few months I’ve acquired a few of these in both wrappers, some I’ve picked up at a more reasonable price, others given or traded me, whatever the case… I’ve been fortunate. These were originally made to commemorate Fuente’s 90th Anniversary (hence why the band says 1912 and 2012), however due to packaging [...]

Review: OpusX Reserva D’Chateau

Today we will be taking a look at a cigar that has been in my humidor for a few years now, the Fuente Fuente OpusX Reserva D’Chateau. This cigar is from 2007 and one of the reasons I am reviewing it is I believe that OpusX cigars really turn into something beautiful in that 3-5 [...]