Prometheus Ships OpusX Lost City Carlito’s A, Opus Holiday Samplers

Prometheus has begun shipping the Holiday 2023 batch of Fuente Aged Selection releases, the partnership between it and Arturo Fuente.

The headliner is the Fuente Fuente OpusX Lost City Carlito’s A, a special 9 1/4 x 47 vitola of the blend that has aged for more than 10 years. The cigar commemorates the 15th anniversary of the OpusX Lost City brand, and there will be a total of 500 boxes of 10 released: 160 boxes shipped last week, while the remaining 340 are scheduled to ship in 2024.

Each cigar has an MSRP of $77.90. According to Prometheus, $5 from the sale of each cigar—$50 per box—is being donated to the Lost City Scholarship Fund to benefit the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation high school graduates.

In addition, Prometheus shipped 160 boxes each of the new Opus5, Opus7 and Opus8 samplers, which are being released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the company’s Opus6 sampler. There will be 300 boxes per sampler, with the remaining 140 boxes scheduled to arrive at retailers next spring. The number of cigars in each sampler corresponds to the names; there are five cigars in the Opus5, seven cigars in the Opus7, and eight cigars for the Opus8. Each of the boxes that the samplers are sold in can also be used as a travel humidor.

The Opus5 by Prometheus is priced at $355 each and includes five different limited-edition cigars. None of the five cigars are new releases: all five have been made available in at least one sampler or humidor in the past like the Opus22, while others such as the BBMF are sold periodically at Casa Fuente in Las Vegas.

• Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF Natural
• Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF Maduro
• Fuente Fuente OpusX El Escorpion Natural
• Fuente Fuente OpusX El Escorpion Maduro
• Fuente Fuente OpusX Tauros the Bull Maduro

The Opus7 by Prometheus is priced at $474 and includes seven different cigars:

• Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF Natural
• Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF Maduro
• Fuente Fuente OpusX El Escorpion Natural
• Fuente Fuente OpusX El Escorpion Maduro
• Fuente Fuente OpusX Purple Rain
• Fuente Fuente OpusX Rare Black Torpedo
• Fuente Fuente OpusX Tauros the Bull Maduro

In addition, each Opus8 by Prometheus sampler includes eight different limited edition cigars, but unlike the previous two samplers, both maduro and natural wrapper versions of the Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF, Fuente Fuente OpusX El Escorpion and Fuente Fuente OpusX Tauros the Bull are included:

• Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF Natural
• Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF Maduro
• Fuente Fuente OpusX El Escorpion Natural
• Fuente Fuente OpusX El Escorpion Maduro
• Fuente Fuente OpusX Purple Rain
• Fuente Fuente OpusX Rare Black Torpedo
• Fuente Fuente OpusX Tauros the Bull Natural
• Fuente Fuente OpusX Tauros the Bull Maduro

Also included is the second and final shipment of 50 OpusX Serie Heaven and Earth Big B Humidors, each of which is priced at $11,000 and is filled with 102 cigars—including 12 Fuente Fuente OpusX BigB cigars, a unique 6 x 74 perfecto with a flat cap—and a copy of “Arturo Fuente: Since 1912,” a recent book published about the company.

According to Prometheus, a portion of the sales proceeds from all of these cigars will be donated to the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation, best known for its school, a campus located in Bonao, Dominican Republic, that serves kids through high school. In addition, the campus includes a clinic, activities like karate and baseball, and new schools for those looking to enter the hospitality or senior care fields. The Fuente and Newman families pay for the operation of the charity, while sales of cigars like these and other donations are used for running the school and providing food and medical care to the students, their families and the people that live in the surrounding area.