Prometheus Celebrates 20 Years of OpusX

While your calendar and memory might tell you last year was the 20th anniversary of the Fuente Fuente OpusX, expect plenty more items honoring the accomplishment from Prometheus.

The company has unveiled its plans for the 2016 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show and it starts with a large humidor. The 2016 Limited Edition OpusX Story is a 360-count cabinet humidor limited to 25 units of three different colors: Red Sycamore, Macassar Ebony and Walnut Burl

It will ship in November along with 50 cigars, with another 50 cigars planned for later in the year.

As is normally the case, it includes a variety of unique cigars, not normally available outside of the pack. The November shipment will include: 10 ForbiddenX Double Corona, 10 OpusX Tiger Shark, 10 OpusX King Power, five Tauros The Bull, five Oro Oscuro Robusto, five Angel’s Share Corona Gorda and five Don Arturo Gran AniverXario My Love Story.

It is priced at $10,000.

Also planned is The OpusX story, a four-cigar sample containing: one ForbiddenX Robusto, one ForbiddenX Double Robusto and two ForbiddenX Toros.

The Opus6 release has been announced, it will contain one each of the: Angel’s Share Churchill, OpusX Oro Oscuro Churchill, Gran AniverXario Toro, OpusX Tauros The Bull, OpusX 13 Belicoso and OpusX King Power.

It is limited to 1,000 units: 350 blue, 350 yellow and 300 red.

This year’s Opus22 release will contain the following:

• FFOX Forbidden X 13 Belicoso (1)
• FFOX Forbidden X Double Robusto (1)
• FFOX 888 Especiale Natural (1)
• FFOX BBMF Natural (1)
• FFOX King Power (2)
• FFOX LFMF (1)
• FFOX Shark (1)
• FFOX Tauros the Bull (1)
• FFOX Tiger Shark (2)
• FFOX Love Affair (2)
• FFOX Perfecxion #2 (2)
• FFOX Oro Oscuro Reserva D’ Chateau (1)
• FFOX Oro Oscuro Robusto (1)
• Angel’s Share Churchill (1)
• Angel’s Share Toro (1)
• Don Arturo Gran AniverXario Churchill (1) Don Arturo Gran AniverXario Toro (2)

It will retail for $975 and will begin shipping in November. The shipments are staggered with 350 boxes in November and 150 in May.

Tubo sizes will be added to the Don Carlos Edición de Aniversario as well as The Lost City releases.

Accessory-wise there are new ForbiddenX units. The company will produce 500 each of its Prometheus Cutter H ($79.95) and Ultimo X ($89.95).

A portion of sales are donated to the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation, a Dominican charity run by the Fuente and Newman families. Over the years, the sale of these items has raised over $1 million for the charity.

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.