Opus X Fuente Fuente

This is a review that I wrote in 2009. Just like a "bad penny", here it is again! lol


I will warn you now that this was my first review and I got totally carried away.



Opus X Fuente Fuente

I was going to smoke this guy a couple of days ago but when I unwrapped it it felt like it might be too moist and too firm. I was surprised by this cause I had been storing it at 65% R.H. But I figured I'd better dry box it for 2 days to make sure it was ready to go.

Now 2 days later it feels exactly the same. Very firm in the fingers with a very smooth feel to the wrapper. I must now conclude that the extraordinary firmness is all about the high quality construction. So, I'm moving ahead.

It has a unique aroma to the unlit stick. Perhaps it is a sweet earthiness...

It accepted the ministrations of my V cutter without a whimper and yielded a pre-light draw flavor that is honey influenced for sure, with a pepper finish! Wow! I have never experienced that much flavor before on a pre-light draw. By the way, the amount of draw is perfect.

Notice the mottling on the wrapper. A portentous symptom of mysterious delights!



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Fire applied at 11:45am.

I didn’t want to possibly influence the cigar with a Spanish cedar match so I gently warmed the foot with a soft butane flame.

I was greeted with a big wall of P-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pepper! (gasp)…and honey too! Yoiks!

Clouds of smoke!

2 draws later it has mellowed and there is caramel there, yum!

What?! I just saw smoke drift out of the head of the cigar while letting it rest in my fingas! Have I ever seen that happen before? Maybe I am just jumpy cause this is such a momentous occasion…

The cigar is settling into a full bodied complex flavor. A bit of tangy earth with changing shades of spice in the finish. Intriguing no?

A perfectly even burn with a white ash that has a subtle hint of grey to it.




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As I finish the first third it is now delivering a predominately complex spice flavor with a mature and subtle pepper underneath. No wonder people like these!

The 2nd third is delivering spice + mature tobacco flavors. I begin to take occasional sips of room temperature distilled water.

Twelve twenty eight pm; As I continue my foray the spice and tobacco flavors picked up a nuance of orange pico aftertaste.




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12:42 and the ash is trembling and I had to let it go.

I now am experiencing a dominant tobacco flavor with really nice spice finish. The subtle pepper contribution that has been diminishing is gone altogether now.




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As I float around my office on clouds of happiness a thought springs to mind...

“Some Bums are born amongst great cigars…. Others have great cigars thrust upon them.”




1:09 1/2" of ash again and oh so tasty. Flavors of tobacco with a honey finish now.

One twenty pm; and a wrapper-endectomy was necessary. Unending clouds of smoke!




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1:48 and still enjoying the daylights out of this noble and worthy cigar Wow! You know I’m nubbin this guy.





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2:09 had to put it down………………….














So I could pull out a toothpick!

The brave little nub is still producing clouds of smoke!??!!



2:17 There was a moment of silence observed as I had to put it down for good.






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This trustworthy Cigar never turned on me. What a marvelous and truly memorable experience!

Two and a half hours of adventure and bliss!





Thanks for taking a gander!