Fuente Ships Rare Pinks, Including Two New Sizes
The latest release of Arturo Fuente Rare Pinks, a line of perfectos that helps a very good cause, began shipping yesterday. Included among the shipments are a pair of long-awaited new sizes.
One of them, called The Sophisticated Hooker, was first puffed nearly one year ago by the seminar audience at Big Smoke Meets WhiskyFest in November 2021. The cigars were originally due to be on the market much sooner, but Fuente held up the release date when the company decided to change the box count from 10 to 20.
“We wanted to do something really spectacular with this cigar,” Fuente told Cigar Aficionado today. “The box is big—it’s a box of 20, a big box of 20, and the cigars are well over a year old. We wanted to wait. Making those boxes wasn’t easy. We shipped to the entire country at once, and we held everything back to make a big splash, to try to raise as much money for breast cancer research.”
The Sophisticated Hooker is quite large, 7 1/16 inches long with a 53 ring gauge, and has a suggested retail price of $17.70. The cigar’s unusual name might bring something lewd to mind, but the double entendre comes from the name of a large fishing boat Fuente remembers that he fished on in Key West in his younger days.
The new Queen of Hearts size, (4 1/4 by 60) also went in this shipment. It retails for $14.70. This comes in 20-count boxes as well.
Rare Pinks are not only high-quality cigars (the original four sizes rated 92 to 93 points in their debut Cigar Insider vertical brand tasting), they are cigars made for a good cause. Thirteen dollars from every box is contributed to charity for breast cancer research. And the cigar world has come to love it.
“It has become one of our most sought-after extensions,” says Fuente. “Whoever would have thought a pink box would become so sought after?”
The Rare Pink line was created by Fuente in late 2020. The cigars have dark, Ecuadoran wrappers, Dominican binders and a mix of Nicaraguan and Dominican filler tobaccos. They are not shipped regularly, and are produced in smaller quantities than many of other Fuente cigars, making them a tough find in cigar shops.
For a rating of the new Rare Pink sizes, see a future issue of Cigar Insider.
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