The 54 vitola of the Arturo Fuente Magnum R line is simply named after its ring gauge (its length is six-and-one-quarter inches). In contrast to the ever-bolder, full-bodied smokes that were being...
The 54 vitola of the Arturo Fuente Magnum R line is simply named after its ring gauge (its length is six-and-one-quarter inches). In contrast to the ever-bolder, full-bodied smokes that were being introduced at the time of this stick’s release in 2009, present Fuente boss Don “Carlito” Carlos Junior opted to go in the reverse direction and formulate a mellower cigar utilizing low-priming Ecuadorean Sumatra tobacco that had been aging in his company’s warehouses for...
In 1980, late Arturo Fuente patriarch Don Carlos Fuente Senior moved his family’s struggling cigar enterprise to the Dominican Republic. It was a momentous business decision that would...
In 1980, late Arturo Fuente patriarch Don Carlos Fuente Senior moved his family’s struggling cigar enterprise to the Dominican Republic. It was a momentous business decision that would ultimately have far-reaching repercussions for the Arturo Fuente brand and the cigar industry as a whole. The firm had been on the island for 10 years before Don’s precocious son Don “Carlito” Fuente Junior decided that instead of merely churning out cigars that made use of tobacco leaves...
The story of Arturo Fuente’s Chateau de la Fuente tobacco estate is by now a familiar one to most smokers; in 1980, Arturo Fuente patriarch Don Carlos Fuente Senior decided to move his...
The story of Arturo Fuente’s Chateau de la Fuente tobacco estate is by now a familiar one to most smokers; in 1980, Arturo Fuente patriarch Don Carlos Fuente Senior decided to move his family’s business to the Dominican Republic. While business was respectable, his son, present-day Fuente boss Don “Carlito” Fuente Junior, was bothered by something a French retailer said to him in passing — that Arturo Fuente was not a “maker” of cigars, but instead was...
Description Humble, resilient, and strong: The Arturo Fuente family is all that and more. Their saga begins with Don Arturo Fuente in pursuit of the American Dream, deploying his cherished Cuban...
Description Humble, resilient, and strong: The Arturo Fuente family is all that and more. Their saga begins with Don Arturo Fuente in pursuit of the American Dream, deploying his cherished Cuban artisanal strengths, then continues to his son, Don Carlos Fuente Sr., grandson, Carlos “Carlito” Fuente Jr., and his sister, Don Arturo’s granddaughter, Cynthia Fuente. Waiting in the wings: the up-and-coming fourth generation. The pleasure of a smoke and the comfort, solace, and camaraderie found in...
Embodying the true Arturo Fuente style of cigar-making, Cañones Maduro sticks are like tobacco cannons, loaded with flavor. Dark and attractive, these superbly constructed, well-balanced...
Embodying the true Arturo Fuente style of cigar-making, Cañones Maduro sticks are like tobacco cannons, loaded with flavor. Dark and attractive, these superbly constructed, well-balanced cigars feature a rustic, toothy, genuine Connecticut Broadleaf maduro wrapper surrounding Dominican fillers and a Dominican binder. Medium-strength and medium-bodied, they lack harshness, but still possess enough complexity to intrigue even experienced smokers. A toasty, nutty, earthy core gives way to...
Anyone who knows Arturo Fuente can tell just by looking that these are AF cigars — more precisely, they are like tobacco cannons, loaded to the ends with tasty flavor. Incorporating genuine,...
Anyone who knows Arturo Fuente can tell just by looking that these are AF cigars — more precisely, they are like tobacco cannons, loaded to the ends with tasty flavor. Incorporating genuine, hard-to-come-by, sweet-yet-spicy Cameroonian wrappers, these mild-to-medium-strength, full-bodied sticks feature aged Dominican fillers and a Dominican binder, producing well-constructed, supremely balanced, smooth-drawing, mellow sticks with a generous burn time and copious production of heavy white...
The story of the most famous photograph of Winston Churchill — known informally as “The Roaring Lion” — is a telling one. Shot by Yousef Karsh in 1941, the photo session was...
The story of the most famous photograph of Winston Churchill — known informally as “The Roaring Lion” — is a telling one. Shot by Yousef Karsh in 1941, the photo session was brief. Just before clicking the shutter, Karsh placed an ashtray in front of the British prime minister and asked that he remove the cigar that was lodged in his mouth. Churchill angrily refused, and Karsh was momentarily perplexed; the cigar’s smoke would almost certainly obscure the image....