Description
The Fuente Fuente OpusX Oro Oscuro OXO Lancero 2004 Aged Selection belongs in a category beyond rare. This is a true Fuente unicorn, an extraordinarily elusive cigar created for the serious OpusX collector and the aficionado who understands just how uncommon Fuente’s most coveted aged selections can be.
The rarity begins with the cigar itself. This special Lancero was produced as a 2004 Aged Selection, combining the already difficult to obtain Oro Oscuro expression of OpusX with one of the most elegant and sought after formats in the Fuente portfolio. Unlike regularly released OpusX vitolas, this is not a cigar an aficionado can simply expect to find at a well stocked tobacconist. Its appearances have been tied to exceptionally limited Fuente collections containing cigars seldom offered to the public.
Most notably, the OXO Lancero 2004 Aged Selection was selected for Arturo Fuente’s appropriately named La Gran Fumada “The Impossible Collection”, alongside some of the rarest OpusX and Fuente cigars ever assembled. Reports surrounding the collection describe extremely limited production, with one U.S. release consisting of only 500 boxes.
At the heart of the cigar is the unmistakable character of Fuente Fuente OpusX Oro Oscuro, an all Dominican composition distinguished by its dark, extensively fermented Dominican wrapper. Oro Oscuro itself is produced in extremely limited quantities, making the combination of this tobacco, the Lancero format, and the historic 2004 Aged Selection particularly remarkable.
The slender Lancero format places greater emphasis on that extraordinary wrapper, offering the potential for a more concentrated and nuanced expression of the blend. Expect the richness and intensity associated with Oro Oscuro, with layers of dark chocolate, cedar, leather, earth, spice, natural sweetness, and vanilla developing through a long and deliberate smoking experience.
But flavor tells only part of the story.
The Fuente Fuente OpusX Oro Oscuro OXO Lancero 2004 Aged Selection is a cigar many dedicated Fuente collectors may never encounter as a single cigar in their lifetime. Its combination of vintage selection, exceedingly scarce Lancero vitola, Oro Oscuro tobacco, and inclusion among Fuente’s “Impossible” cigars makes it far more than another rare OpusX.
This is collector territory. A Fuente unicorn in the truest sense of the word.
For the aficionado fortunate enough to acquire one, the question may not be when to smoke it, but whether to smoke it at all.
