Question About Fuentes

Started by Chefjohn, 12/14/2018 04:32 PM

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Chefjohn

My wife surprised me with the Arturo Fuente Opus X Story. The band on the cigars say 2015. Does that mean thats the year they were produced?

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ntanner

This looks like a part of the Opus22 collection to me. Found some info in Halfwheel.  https://halfwheel.com/ipcpr-2018-prometheus
The cigar journal also talks about them but the band reads 2014. https://www.cigarjournal.com/fuente-2018-aged-selection-opus22-scheduled-for-november/

Not sure if that has to do with harvest date, assembly date or aging barrel date.
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Dude, I can't answer the question but that's a great wife you've got there... and some pretty nice cigars as well

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That is a hek of a surprise. Very nice.
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Quotentanner - 12/14/2018  4:14 PM

This looks like a part of the Opus22 collection to me. Found some info in Halfwheel.  https://halfwheel.com/ipcpr-2018-prometheus
The cigar journal also talks about them but the band reads 2014. https://www.cigarjournal.com/fuente-2018-aged-selection-opus22-scheduled-for-november/

Not sure if that has to do with harvest date, assembly date or aging barrel date.

Almost, not quite. This is called the Fuente Fuente Opus X Story Assortment.  See the link for last year's release.  Pricing should be similar.

https://www.holts.com/samplers/all-cigar-samplers/fuente-fuente-opus-x-story-assortment.html


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Chefjohn

Thanks for all the input guys. I was really surprised by this. I had gotten a Fuente Flor fina 858 Maduro in a bomb from Jeremy (Mautrak) and she remembered me saying how much I enjoyed it and she thought that this would be something I like. She was right. I still want to find out what that year represents.
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tuck0411

I'm curious about this as well.  Am still a noob at this hobby and I occasionally get a stick with a year on it and wonder what it represents.  When a brand puts a year on the band, what does it normally represent?  Or is there no general rule of thumb one can go by?  I've gotten the impression it sometimes, at least, represents the year the tobacco was grown, but given that tobacco is sometimes aged for a few years before going into a cigar, it probably doesn't also mean the year the cigar was manufactured.  Dunno for sure, though.  :confused:
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Cfickter

I would say, as a general rule of thumb, the date shown on the band, is the release date.  Look at the TAA releases or the Crowned Heads Las Calaveras as a good examples. While tobaccos can be aged several years, unless it was an exceptional tobacco, it will not generally be called out.
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Chefjohn

QuoteCfickter - 12/15/2018  10:16 AM

I would say, as a general rule of thumb, the date shown on the band, is the release date.  Look at the TAA releases or the Crowned Heads Las Calaveras as a good examples. While tobaccos can be aged several years, unless it was an exceptional tobacco, it will not generally be called out.

Thanks Chuck. So by release date does that mean these specific cigars or the line as a whole. Sorry for the questions, I just want to learn.
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