Description
The Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF 2006 Aged Selection is an extraordinary piece of Fuente history, combining one of the most legendary and unconventional OpusX shapes ever created with a 2006 vintage designation that places this cigar at approximately two decades of age. For the serious Fuente aficionado, this is far beyond an ordinary rare OpusX. It is a genuine vintage collectible from an earlier era of Fuente Fuente OpusX.
The BBMF has always occupied a special place within the OpusX universe. Created as an unusually shaped and exceptionally powerful expression of OpusX, the cigar features a dramatic perfecto form with a bulbous foot and Fuente’s unmistakable extended cap, playfully known as the “Cuban Tickler.” Even Cigar Aficionado has singled out the BBMF as an exceptionally difficult cigar to encounter, describing the standard OpusX version as hard enough to find before considering even more obscure variations.
But this particular BBMF is something considerably more significant.
It carries a 2006 Aged Selection designation.
Fuente Aged Selection records document the BBMF among the 22 rare vintage Fuente Fuente OpusX cigars released through the 2006 Opus22 program. Only 500 Opus22 boxes were released worldwide in November 2006, and remarkably, each collection contained just one FFOX BBMF.
That means the BBMF was extraordinarily scarce from the very beginning.
Nearly twenty years later, surviving examples represent something increasingly difficult to replace. Some have been smoked. Others have disappeared into private collections. Every passing year reduces the likelihood that an aficionado will encounter an authentic vintage example from this era.
Time has transformed rarity into something approaching irreproducibility.
OpusX is renowned for its intensity, richness, and unmistakable Dominican character, but approximately two decades of maturation offer the opportunity for an entirely different expression of the blend. The youthful power and spice associated with OpusX can gradually integrate with age, allowing deeper nuances of wood, earth, sweetness, and mature tobacco to emerge.
Expect the possibility of an extraordinarily developed profile of aged cedar, leather, dark cocoa, earth, roasted nuts, baking spice, dried fruit, and natural tobacco sweetness, with the considerable strength of the BBMF potentially becoming more composed and harmonious through its years of rest.
Yet flavor is only one reason this cigar is so compelling.
The Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF 2006 Aged Selection represents an intersection of extreme scarcity, unmistakable Fuente eccentricity, and genuine age. The BBMF itself is one of the most recognizable specialty shapes in the Fuente portfolio. The 2006 vintage elevates it into an entirely different category.
Fuente’s historical records show just how carefully these cigars were presented. The rare vintage cigars from the 2006 Aged Selection were individually packaged in coffins identifying the cigar and year of release, reinforcing their status as collectible vintage Fuentes rather than conventional production cigars.
And unlike rarity, age cannot be manufactured.
Fuente can roll another extraordinary cigar. Another specialty OpusX can be released. Even another BBMF may eventually appear.
But no newly produced cigar can become a 2006 Aged Selection.
For the dedicated Fuente collector, that distinction is everything. This is an exceptionally elusive BBMF connected to a documented release of only 500 vintage collections, with just one BBMF originally included in each. After approximately twenty years, the number of surviving examples can only be a fraction of what existed when these cigars were originally released.
The Fuente Fuente OpusX BBMF 2006 Aged Selection is therefore more than an unusual OpusX with significant age.
It is a surviving artifact from an earlier chapter of the OpusX story, preserved for approximately two decades in one of the most distinctive, unconventional, and coveted formats Carlito Fuente ever created.
Rare BBMFs may eventually surface again.
