Fuente y Padrón Legends

The passing of two cigar industry icons brought together two of the most well-known cigar companies to create one of the most attention-grabbing releases of 2024. Jorge Padrón blended this cigar in honor of Carlos Fuente Sr., who passed away in 2016.

The cigar industry dealt with a lot of issues and questions in 2024, and Charlie Minato made predictions about how some of those things would turn out. A year later, it’s time to find out how correct he was.

Yes, its the biggest release of the (last) year. No, it is not cheap.

Err. The first batch of the highly-anticipated Fuente y Padrón Legends is arriving at stores.

Get out your red pens, it’s grading time.

Will I be wrong about the shipping date for Fuente y Padrón Legends two years in a row? Probably.

Last month, Arturo Fuente shipped two shipping containers full of Legends cigars to Tampa. Unfortunately, the contents of one of those containers arrived damaged.

The Arturo Fuente booth represents one-half of the most talked-about cigar of PCA 2022. Just because most people wanted to talk first about the Padrón collaboration doesn’t mean there wasn’t anything new inside the Fuente booth proper.

The Fuente y Padrón Legends project was unveiled during the 2022 PCA Convention & Trade Show, though specific details remain scarce.

The much-anticipated collaboration will debut this Sunday in Las Vegas.

Arturo Fuente. Padrón. Two of the cigar industry’s biggest names will be making cigars to honor the men who built their respective companies: Carlos Fuente…