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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: 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 [...]

News: Prometheus Shows Off Angel Share as part of Fuente Destino al Siglo 100th Anniversary Releases

This morning Prometheus sent outs its annual IPCPR catalog included were a variety of Destino al Siglo releases, Prometheus’ line of products to honor Fuente’s 100th anniversary. Amongst the releases were a host of the normal special Fuente releases annually through Keith Park’s Prometheus and FFOX Angel Share, which was originally said not to be [...]

Review: OpusX Pussy Juice

Editor’s Note: I make the following warning, the above is the name of the cigar. if you are reading this on a work computer, think about it. If you are on a computer with kids, think about it. If not, get ready for a review of a cigar that most have never heard of, perhaps [...]

Review: OpusX ForbiddenX 13 God’s Whisper 1924

Today is a review of yet another one of the ForbiddenX 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 OpusX ForbiddenX 13 Nacimiento 1912, the [...]

Review: Ashton VSG Estate Reserve Corona Gorda

For those of you that don’t know… In 2001, Prometheus and Ashton teamed up to release the Ashton VSG Estate Reserve, or VSG ER, a hybrid cigar that took the Dominican Chateau de la Fuente Sun Grown Rosado wrapper from the Opus X line of cigars and the filler and binder from the VSG line of [...]

Weekly News (August 29, 2011)

Editor’s Note: I won’t name names this time, but almost six weeks post IPCPR the amount of products that have missed their supposed deadlines continues to grow. This isn’t a new phenomenon, perhaps just that it’s being tracked. But it’s something worth noting. After the jump is another week of a lot of Fuente news, [...]

Weekly News (July 11, 2011)

Editor’s Note: And here we are. One week out from the IPCPR trade show and things are reaching their peak. Last week saw a host of new product announcements and this week is likely to be no different. Later this week a massive post outlining what to expect at IPCPR should be up, I’d estimate [...]

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 (February 7, 2011)

There’s a much different style to the news, okay sort of… A few stories are still in paragraph form, but most will be in bullet points to try to make the whole story easier for you to read. Don’t get me wrong, I love comments – but, I never ask for them. I love hearing [...]