Description
The Fuente Fuente OpusX Oro Oscuro OXO Super Belicoso 2007 Aged Selection is an extraordinary intersection of two qualities that serious Fuente aficionados prize above nearly everything else: extreme scarcity and genuine age. Carrying a 2007 Aged Selection designation, this remarkable OpusX has spent nearly two decades developing into something that simply cannot be replicated by a newly released cigar.
Even without its vintage pedigree, the OpusX Oro Oscuro Super Belicoso is an exceptionally coveted cigar. Arturo Fuente describes Oro Oscuro as an extension of the prestigious OpusX family crafted entirely from Dominican tobaccos grown at Chateau de la Fuente. Its defining wrapper is specially selected OpusX tobacco subjected to additional aging and fermentation, producing the darker appearance and deeper character that distinguish Oro Oscuro from traditional OpusX.
Now add 2007 to that equation.
This is not simply an Oro Oscuro that has rested for a few additional years. The 2007 Aged Selection places this cigar nearly twenty years into the past, giving its already extensively fermented tobaccos an extraordinary period of additional maturation. For an OpusX aficionado accustomed to considering five or ten years significant age, encountering an example carrying a 2007 designation represents an entirely different level of vintage cigar collecting.
Nearly two decades of age cannot be rushed, reproduced, or replaced.
The Super Belicoso format makes this aged expression particularly intriguing. Measuring 5½ inches with a 52 ring gauge, its broad body and tapered head provide an impressive platform for the dark, intensely fermented Oro Oscuro wrapper. Fuente confirms that the Oro Oscuro Super Belicoso is produced entirely from Dominican wrapper, binder, and filler tobaccos cultivated in the Dominican Republic.
With this much age behind it, the experience promises something dramatically removed from a young OpusX. The intensity traditionally associated with the blend has had years to settle and integrate, potentially allowing deeper nuances to move forward. Expect an exceptionally mature profile of aged cedar, dark cocoa, espresso, leather, earth, baking spice, roasted nuts, and natural tobacco sweetness, complemented by the distinctive richness of the heavily fermented Oro Oscuro wrapper.
The attraction, however, extends far beyond flavor.
The Fuente Fuente OpusX Oro Oscuro OXO Super Belicoso 2007 Aged Selection is documented specifically as a vintage Fuente Aged Selection, and individual examples have surfaced only rarely through specialty retailers, where they have subsequently sold out.
That scarcity becomes even more meaningful when combined with the cigar’s age.
Fuente can produce another Super Belicoso. Another Oro Oscuro can eventually reach the market. But Fuente cannot turn back the calendar and create another 2007 Aged Selection. Every surviving example represents tobacco connected to a specific moment in Fuente history, and every cigar enjoyed permanently reduces the number remaining.
For the serious Fuente collector, that distinction is everything.
This cigar brings together the already elusive Oro Oscuro expression of OpusX, the distinctive Super Belicoso vitola, specially selected and extensively fermented Dominican wrapper tobacco, and a 2007 Aged Selection designation approaching twenty years of age. The result is an OpusX whose rarity comes not merely from limited availability, but from something infinitely more difficult to reproduce: time.
This is not simply an old cigar. It is a genuine 2007 Fuente Aged Selection, preserved for nearly two decades and becoming increasingly irreplaceable with every passing year.
Rare OpusX may eventually surface again.
2007 never will.
