Cigar Aficionado

Two limited-edition sets of aged cigars from Arturo Fuente’s Fuente Fuente OpusX brand are finally making their way to select retailers this week. Distributed through Prometheus International, Inc., the Fuente Fuente OpusX Story collection and the Fuente Fuente Opus6 were both originally scheduled to ship in November, but were delayed due to the pandemic. 

The Fuente Fuente OpusX Story collection features four cigars from the Forbidden X line that were rolled in 2017: one Robusto, a Double Robusto and two Toros. It comes in a travel humidor by Prometheus International, and is offered in five different finishes: red, blue, macassar ebony, yellow and black. Each OpusX Story Collection has a suggested retail price of $199.90. Only 250 of each color will be available and only 1,250 in total are being released. 

Also on its way to retailers, the Fuente Fuente Opus6 is making its return. For every Opus6 release, Fuente selects six rare cigars from his aging room. The set will include sizes that are not part of the core OpusX line. The six cigars in this year’s set are: a Fuente Fuente OpusX Love Affair, OpusX Magnum O, OpusX Tiger Shark, Forbidden X Taurus The Bull, one Don Arturo Gran AniverXario Churchill and an OpusX Lancero. The cigars wear secondary bands indicating the year they were rolled, in this case, 2017.

Boxed in Prometheus travel humidors, the sets come in four colors—blue, red, macassar ebony and white. Images of Carlos Fuente Sr. and Jr. smoking cigars grace each lid, along with their signatures. Retailing for $299.90 each, only 2,000 sets will be released (500 of each color).

Although these cases are built to be humidors, neither set includes a humidification element, which is sold separately.

Along with the cigars, each set also comes with a publication called “20 Years of Fuente Fuente OpusX: An Interview with Carlos 'Carlito' Fuente Jr.” The interview was conducted with Fuente before the 2015 IPCPR (now PCA) trade show.

Portions of each sale will be donated to the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation, an organization started by the Arturo Fuente Cigar Co. and J.C. Newman Cigar Co. dedicated to improving the lives of impoverished children in the Dominican Republic. 

Like all OpusX cigars, the smokes found in the OpusX Story and Opus6 collections are made at Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia. in Santiago, the Dominican Republic.