Most cigar fans know the story of the Arturo Fuente Opus X. As the first smoke to feature Cuban-seed wrapper shade-grown in the Dominican Republic, the Opus X not only radically changed the business of Arturo Fuente; it also set the cigar industry on its ear and showed that what many observers previously thought was impossible was not only possible, it may even have been inevitable once Don “Carlito” Carlos Fuente Junior set his mind to creating this legendary stick.
The Reserva d’Chateau is not just one of the highest-rated vitolas of the Opus X (it scored a 93 rating from Cigar Aficionado in 2019 and 2020, as well as a 92 rating in 2009 and a 91 rating in 2015); it also made the magazine’s Top 25 Cigars of the Year list three times (ranking 15th in 2006, 14th in 2009, and eighth in 2019) — more than any other vitola of this most famous smoke (which itself has been ranked in the CA Top 25 list an unprecedented 10 times, winning Cigar of the Year in 2005).
Churchill-shaped and on the thinner side, the Reserva d’Chateau especially brings out the taste of the renowned Opus X wrapper — cultivated at the family’s Chateau de la Fuente estate in the Dominican Republic’s Bonao Valley — which is what this full-strength cigar is really known for. The intense flavors resonating from this stick range from earth to leather to nuts to spices, along with hints of nutmeg, honey, tea and coffee beans.
If you haven’t tried the Opus X, these smokes are the most fitting way to see what all the fuss is about. Order a box today, and feel confident that you’ll have some of the best and boldest of the modern generation of cigars in your possession.