Procigar Festival - Arturo Fuente Factory 

Thank you so much for saying that! I was more than happy to share these experiences!

The factory is truly amazing!

Thank you for watching man!!

Thank you man! It is truly something special.

Fuente is such an amazing brand with so many to choose from. Im a year into discovering cigars and I still love them above all others. Try a queen b or gran reserva, 2 of my faves.

Woooow that's absolutely incredible! Did you go when they were first launching the Opus X project? That would have been in 1995 if I'm not mistaken. Super cool of you to share this and give me a perspective of how it was back then!!

@@StogieLads My visit wasn't related to the OpusX launch. I don't remember Carlos mentioning anything about it at the time..... I think that came later. It may have been 1994 that I was there....not really sure if it was 94 or 95. I was buying cigars at the time from Mark's Cigars (in NJ) via mail order. It was a little pre-Internet back then so everything was done by mail, fax or phone. (Including doing International wire transfers to Spain to buy Cubanos and doing the communications via fax!) During a phone call with the Mark's Cigars owner, Jody Kish (I just looked him up and he died in 2017) I mentioned I was going to be in Puerto Plata soon, as my family has had a place there since 1986. Jody said "Why don't I put you in touch with Carlos... maybe he'll invite you over for a visit?" I said sure, and he gave me his #, so while I was there I called, Carlos answered, and we set up a day for me to go to Santiago. It's about an hour from where I was and I had a rental motorcycle so I set off for the Zona Franca and ended up spending a couple of hours with Carlito. He said, "I hope you don't mind just tagging along with me as I attend to some things around the factory... I've been gone for a few days." It was such a cool experience, and I took a bunch of photos. I have one of me and Carlos in front of the office with a beautiful new carved door that had just been installed as part of a renovation. At the end, Carlos took me into a room with a ton of boxed cigars ready for shipment and told me to pick a box for me to take back with me. I selected a box of Chateau Fuente maduros. I didn't want to come across as greedy by going for something more high-end like the Hemingway series. (The Don Carlos series wasn't even out yet as I recall.) I still have a Mark's Cigar's flyer from 1994. The prices would BLOW YOUR MIND! I'm looking at the list right now....Box of Hemingway Short Story, $41.95, Flora Fina 8-5-8, $30.95, Davidoff Mouton Cadet #1, $79.17, Partagas #10 (box of 10), 25.95! I also have a faxed 4-page price list from 1996 from El Credito in Miami where I mail-ordered cigars several times. That was shortly after the CA feature on El Credito where Ernesto was introduced to the world. I fell in love with Lisette from the photo of her in the feature :) Those La Gloria Cubanas at the time (Wavell, #2, etc) were INCREDIBLE and some of the best smokes I've ever had. They truly don't make them like that any more. But I keep going back to Fuente, for sure. Good times!

@@festerofest4374 Wow that insight is absolutely incredible. Those prices! Thank you so much for taking the time to share all this, man. It's been a pleasure to read!

It truly is amazing. Thank you for watching!

Glad you enjoyed the video!

Awesome to hear man! Their stuff is great quality across the board!

Thank you! Very kind of you to say!

Incredible cathedral of cigars!

Thank you!

Hahah uppskattar entusiasmen!!

Hahah fun to do but doesn't do much with the flavor

Is it pronounced Opus "X" or Opus "ten"?

@@BuffaloNickel9"X", as in the letter x. Pronounced: "OH-PUS EACKS".

Hahaha thank you man! Giveaways are tough nowadays so I'm not sure if that will happen. Thank you for watching and enjoying the videos though man!

@@StogieLads no worries! Thanks for sharing your experience, still awesome!

We left the festival with over 100 cigars each. I smoked a bit over 20 cigars during the week there if I remember correctly. If you want a more detailed answer we actually went through all of this in the podcast episode that we did about the festival!

Hahaha snällt av dig att säga!

Nonsense. Cubans are severely overrated.

I bet you never tried a Cuban cigar . You ever heard of the saying same shit different day.

@@BIGO787 i only smoke cuban cigar.

@@seminky5341 So if only smoke Cuban cigars you know what’s going on in Cuba .. No rolls there cigars got sun spots and there aging rooms are lost at sea.. They are decreasing their cigar- production targets. They are beginning to return to traditional methods of curing and fermenting tobacco. They stopped using some hybrid tobaccos that weren't right for their fields. And they are working hard to reimpose stringent quality controls in the production process