As nearly all cigar lovers know, the Opus X was a landmark smoke when it was introduced. Practically overnight, it changed the industry and renewed the life of Arturo Fuente — a brand that had been around for nearly a century by the time the Opus X was released. But what the Opus X did was larger than Arturo Fuente; it put the Dominican Republic on the map as a country that could not just assemble some of the very best cigars in the world, but as a place that could produce an entire cigar — including the wrapper tobaccos, which up until that time had never competed seriously with those from other cigar-producing nations of the world.
What people told Arturo Fuente executive Don “Carlito” Carlos Fuente Junior could not be done — the production of a “puro” all-Dominican cigar, created with Dominican shade-grown Cuban-seed leaf — he did, and by doing so, he knocked it out of the park.
The PerfecXion X is the Toro-shaped Opus X vitola that Cigar Aficionado ranked sixth on their Top 25 Cigars of the Year list in 2014, bestowing it a coveted 94 rating; meanwhile, the Opus X line has been ranked in the magazine’s Top 25 Cigars list an unprecedented 10 times.
Near full-strength, with a body on the fuller side, the PerfecXion X has been described as “irresistible,” with a captivating complexity and a devastating potency. The tobaccos from the Chateau de la Fuente estate in the island’s Bonao region produce intense flavors, including notes of espresso, oak, earth, honey, brown sugar, cinnamon, white and black pepper, almonds and dried fruit. The spicy and leathery finish of the cigar is its trademark.
See for yourself why Opus X smokes have been so in demand and so hard to get for so long. Order yourself a PerfecXion X, and savor this ambrosial labor of love from the Fuente family.