Like the Churchills, Cañones and Rothschilds cigars, the Arturo Fuente Corona Imperial vitola is a member of the company’s flagship Gran Reserva line, representing the pinnacle of four generations of cigar knowledge, craftsmanship and attention to detail that go into creating the world’s best cigars.
Arturo Fuente’s cigar makers take no shortcuts, performing each step of the cigarmaking process by hand, ensuring a finished product that has no parallel. Every cigar in the Gran Reserva line is aged in Spanish cedar vaults after it’s been rolled, creating a perfect marriage of the tobacco blends inside — blends that, as with the cigars’ binders, are drawn from the Fuente family’s private reserves at the company’s famous Chateau de la Fuente estate in the Dominican Republic.
The Corona Imperial is a six-and-a-half-inch cigar with a 46 ring gauge, offering a one-hour-plus burn time. In the Maduro variety, it comes in a dark chocolate-colored, sun-grown, genuine Connecticut Broadleaf maduro wrapper that lends this stick an intriguing appearance and a rich taste.
Boasting superior construction, an easy draw and a razor-sharp burn, the mild-to-medium-bodied, medium-to-full-strength Corona Imperial Maduro yields smooth, well-balanced, creamy flavors of cedar, leather, caramel and nuts, with ample hints of pepper and spices.
A full inch-and-a-quarter to an inch-and-a-half longer than the Corona and Petit Corona vitolas of the Gran Reserva line (with additional thickness as well), the Corona Imperial affords a more generous burn time than its shorter, thinner cousins.
To those who favor the latter vitolas, one need only remind them that just as empires can wax and wane, they are often quite capable of “striking back”; order a box of Corona Imperial Maduros today, and you too can taste the subtle sweetness and seductive power of the Broadleaf’s dark side.