The November 2022 Release of the OpusX Story comes with a special publication, 20 Years of Fuente Fuente OpusX, and four rare vintage Fuente Fuente Forbidden X cigars. They are made with the wrapper leaves grown at Chateau de la Fuente and very old tobaccos from the Fuente family's storied tobacco inventory.

The OpusX Story comes with:

20 Years of Fuente Fuente OpusX:
An Interview with Carlos "Carlito" Fuente Jr. 

4 Fuente Fuente Forbidden X: 1 Robusto, 1 Double Robusto and 2 Toro
   
The cigars are presented in the limited edition OpusX Story travel humidors produced by Prometheus. The OpusX Story travel humidors do not include humidifier.

Total Release Quantity: 1,575
Red 315, Black 315, Yellow 315, Blue 315 and Macassar Ebony 315

Shipping Date: April 2023

The travel humidors are serial-numbered and come with a certificate of authenticity.

MSRP $249.00

It would be no exaggeration to say that Fuente Fuente OpusX changed the cigar industry as much as the iPhone changed the mobile phone industry. It might even be an understatement.

When it came out in 1995, Fuente Fuente OpusX was an immediate sensation: a cigar so different in its taste, look and origin that cigar enthusiasts literally lined up to buy it. Retail shops sold out so quickly that some imposed a “one per customer per day” rule. It remains one of the world’s most coveted cigars, with each new release eagerly awaited by cigar enthusiasts, reviewers and retailers.

The entire premium cigar industry felt the impact of OpusX. Competing manufacturers introduced heavier-bodied cigars to try to compete with OpusX’s rich, robust flavor. Even the image of the industry changed. Suddenly, it seemed every cigar company, even huge multinational corporations, attempted to claim for themselves the Fuentes’ focus on tradition and family. They even copied the Fuente look, which has become as much an iconic image for cigars as Juan Valdez is for coffee. “Fuente Fuente OpusX has changed not only the taste of cigars, it’s changed the vision, the appearance and the way we think about cigars,” says Carlos “Carlito” Fuente Jr., the man who conceived OpusX cigar.

It wasn’t always this way. Because OpusX uses wrapper leaf grown in the Dominican Republic - a region other tobacco growers felt couldn’t produce good wrapper leaves - many industry observers initially doubted its quality, and even doubted the Fuentes could deliver a finished product. Shortly after Fuente Fuente OpusX finally hit the market, a major wine producer filed a trademark lawsuit that might have killed the entire project.

In this interview, conducted in New Orleans the night before the 2015 International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) trade show opened, Carlito Fuente considers the impact Fuente Fuente OpusX has had on the cigar industry, and recalls some of the struggles that nearly destroyed his family’s company as they worked to bring OpusX to market. (Excerpt from Page 2, 3, and 4)