Arturo Fuente’s Impossible Collection Begins Shipping

A 13-cigar sampler containing rare and some previously-unreleased Arturo Fuente cigars is heading to stores.

Arturo Fuente has begun shipping The Impossible Collection, a 13-cigar sampler, to U.S. stores.

From left to right:

1. Fuente Fuente OpusX 20 Years Celebration Double Corona
2. Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Lancero
3. Fuente Fuente OpusX 20 Years Celebration Phantom
4. Fuente Fuente OpusX Angel’s Share 2016 Perfexcion X
5. Fuente Fuente OpusX ForbiddenX 13 Perfexcion X
6. Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF Natural
7. Fuente Fuente OpusX 25
8. Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF Maduro
9. Fuente Fuente OpusX 2020 Sol d’Amor
10. Fuente Fuente OpusX 2020 Viento d’Amor
11. Fuente Fuente OpusX Perfexcion No. 77 Shark
12. Fuente Fuente OpusX PJ
13. Fuente Fuente OpusX Toy Maker

Only the Angel’s Share 2016 Perfexcion X and Perfexcion No. 77 Shark are listed on the Arturo Fuente price list. The other 11 cigars range from releases that the company makes but does not sell—like the Don Carlos Lancero, PJ and Toy Maker—to cigars like the OpusX 25 or OpusX 2020 cigars, which have been sold in a limited fashion.

Arturo Fuente has declined to list an MSRP for The Impossible Collection. Using industry-standard margins, consumers should expect to pay $2,600 per box before applicable local taxes.

Notably, Arturo Fuente does not use industry-standard margins; it actually calculates its MSRPs with less margin than most cigar companies, meaning the MSRP would likely be closer to $2,300. On the other hand, due to the limited supply of cigars like OpusX and Añejo, many retailers routinely mark up limited Arturo Fuente cigars well beyond the industry-standard margins.

In order to receive the cigars, retailers needed to place orders at the 2023 PCA Convention & Trade Show, which took place earlier this month in Las Vegas. There are 500 boxes shipping to U.S. stores.

These boxes are the 2022 vintage, created for La Gran Fumada, a June 2022 party at the Arturo Fuente Cigar Club in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The boxes have been sitting at the Fuente warehouse in Tampa since last year.

Earlier this year, Arturo Fuente Cigar Club held another La Gran Fumada event with a different sampler.

Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.