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News: Casa Fuente Launches Online Store

On Monday afternoon, Casa Fuente in Las Vegas announced the launch of a new online store that will be selling Casa Fuente logoed accessories and clothing, but likely to the disappointment of many cigar smokers, none of their exclusive cigars. The store sent out the following Tweet heralding the news: You asked for it and [...]

Review: Casa Fuente Series 5 Special Selection 806

On March 16, 2012, the Casa Fuente Series 5 Special Selection arrived in the Las Vegas store, the first new line for the retail store since its 2005 opening. Very little is known about the new cigars at this time, but there are some facts that we found out after talking with the salesperson at [...]

Weekly News (March 19, 2012)

Editor’s Note: And so it begins. The discussion over IPCPR media memberships, i.e. bloggers going to the trade show, started once again. David Jones of the TikiBar provided his thoughts and plenty of others chimed on Twitter. At the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter that the costs are going up or if [...]

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 [...]

Press Release: Casa Fuente Partners with Jack Daniel’s to Offer Limited Edition Whiskey

September 21, 2011 — Casa Fuente inside The Forum Shops at Caesars has teamed up with Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey to create a special limited edition Casa Fuente Single Barrel Whiskey which is now available for purchase at the world renowned cigar bar. Each bottle sells for $85.00 with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation and includes a special commemorative tag designating the limited edition selection for Casa Fuente.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Weekly News (November 1, 2010)

Hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween weekends. Instead of candy, I had Padrón weekend. The annual release of the Oliva Serie V Maduro hit stores this past week. The Rocky Patel Valedor which is a B&M only stick that was made for the NRA also hit stores. A special Opus X Scorpion was released at Casa [...]

Review: OpusX El Scorpion (Natural)

Today we will be taking a look at a unique OpusX cigar vitola, the El Scorpion. As with the Chili Pepper (which we reviewed here not too long ago) this cigar comes in the 22 Count CFC Humidor released every year by Prometheus for the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation. Here are a few pics of [...]

A Visit to Casa Fuente, Las Vegas

I was sitting at Casa Fuente in Las Vegas on Wednesday smoking with a couple of Great BOTLs (which is the reason the blog was not updated yesterday, if you were wondering), I realized that I have not seen any really large high quality photos of the Casa Fuente store and its contents, and that [...]