Me and Carlito Fuente at Casa Fuente Las Vegas

Just remembered my many years old old photobucket account and found this.

Me and Carlito Fuente at Casa Fuente Las Vegas

I'm holding my limited production bottle of Jack Daniel's they were selling for CFCF that they engraved to commemorate my visit and was signed by Carlito.

Printed the picture with Carlito on nice photo paper, framed it, and displayed it on top of my huge cabinet humidor I built out of an old china cabinet for years.

Glad to have the picture again as it was a highlight moment of my cigar smoking life. Hard to believe it was about 15 years ago now as I remember it vividly.

I look so nice and young,lol

Carlito was a great guy and was willing to chat for a while, on top of the great picture and autograph. He seems to genuinely appreciate those of us super fans of his cigars.

Would love to go back for Big Smoke finally now that I'm retired and have plenty of time and see and hopefully meet with him again.

Worst case scenario, Casa Fuente is a pretty nice atmosphere/setting for cigar smoking, plus the humidor full of tons of different Fuente and Newman smokes.

Too bad I don't drink anymore. Their "Old Cuban" as an awesome mixed drink. Even found out online how to make them at home and if I wasn't drinking beer, I was drinking Old Cubans.


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I friggin' LOVE cigars
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Pic1:
My haul from Casa Fuente (dont even want to think about what it cost me, especially the CFCF coffin which I believe was about $50, same as the bottle of Jack) and a few from the Davidoff store on the far left, including a Playboy bunny logo band one I bought just because it was unique and kind cool.

Did eventually smoke it and recall it being pretty decent.

Luckily I had made $300 playing roulette the night before, so added quite a bit to my cigar budget, so why not...

Pic2:
Close up of the coffin

Hard to believe that its been 11 years since I was there. Seems like only yesterday as I remember my entire trip to Vegas vividly, especially meeting Carlito.

Would definitely love to go back to Vegas for about a week and go to Big Smoke (been a dream of mine since early in my smoking career), and just playing more roulette to increase my budget again and just see the sights of Vegas.

Loved my 4 days there. It was the best vacation I've ever had honestly. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ed68e703d2.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7655e7a7ef.jpg

I friggin' LOVE cigars

That a Playboy cigar? I learn something new here everyday.

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Originally Posted by chain_gang

That a Playboy cigar? I learn something new here everyday.

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Yup. Got it at the Davidoff store, but want to say it was made by Altadis.

Will look it up and see who makes it and if they are still available anywhere.

Just bought it because it was unique really

I friggin' LOVE cigars

Awesome!! The Big Smoke, in Vegas, is a bucket list item for me. Hopefully one of these days! Thanks for sharing!!