Arturo Fuente

Um, uh, but I, this is not my favorite though.

I've always liked to Arturo Fuente myself.

Um, uh, So it looks like there is a massive surge.

And I was watching this over the night on flight radar 21, which are 24, which I just love that website.

Uh, Oliva, if I was gonna do one.

I'm not breaking out a Arturo Fuente or anything like that given that it's Louisville, but, um-

See, I would've thought that was, like, a suit maker

... a Cohiba.

Arturo, Arturo Fuente suits.

Maybe, you know, maybe a Cohiba.

I, I don't know.

Uh, I work in the broader tobacco world, I've mentioned before, I think, but, uh, not cigars, so I get to mix a bit of business with pleasure when I'm there.

On the floor, what stood out to me, beside the usual names like Oliva, Arturo Fuente, Plasencia, and so on, was a very strong Honduran presence, a growing number of Mexican, Brazilian, and Costa Rican cigars, which is something we can all welcome, I think.

Uh, Indonesian cigars too, and even Chinese ones seem to be coming up.

I haven't tried any Chinese cigars yet, but, uh, if you get the chance to try an Indonesian puro, you should do so.

What's that brand? Well, there's only one brand that's going to do that.

It's Arturo Fuente.

There you

go.

You know this.

You've done this in the past.

There is one sort of criticism to Arturo Fuente, and it has nothing to do with their cigars, because their cigars are all amazing.

And I would smoke any Arturo Fuente any day of the week.

Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm for it.

A- a- a- and let me, let me take this opportunity real quick because, um, because I was very, I, I won't say harsh about, uh, Arturo Fuente's 911 cigar, but I was critical of it, saying, you know, "Hey, like, why are you trying to make money off a tragedy?" I, I think there's, there's a difference between this 911 cigar that came out from, uh, Opus X, and, um, and this 1111 cigar.

They're celebrating Veterans Day, they're celebrating, they're honoring their, their fallen comrades who came before them or were with them, uh, i- in a way, and, uh, they're giving those proceeds.

So they're not celebrating a national tragedy.

So...

Arturo Fuente Opus X, 20 year, father and the son, all Dominican, all the time.

Fantastic cigar.

They made these in limited quantities.

Watch

him get Fuente.

Oh,

shit.

back in the seat.

Here we go.

H. Upman, Arturo Fuente, and Artisano del Tobacco.

Easy.

So again, not going full into the weeds on it, but kind of more cliff notes version.

The, uh, Fuente family, Fuente Cigars, Arturo Fuente Cigars was founded in 1912 by Arturo Fuente.

And in his son, Carlos Fuente Sr., who is Carlito Fuente, the man behind Opus X, his dad.

So Carlos Fuente Sr., from the Fuente website itself, says he was born in 1935 in Ybor City, which is a neighborhood in Tampa.

So in 1980, they pivot and he opens a factory in Santiago, Dominican Republic.

Carlos and his family have been there ever since.

And Arturo Fuente cigars have become one of the most recognized and sought after brands in the world.

So that is brief synopsis.