Description
The Fuente Fuente OpusX Piramide 56 Especiale 2004 Aged Selection is a remarkable piece of Fuente history, combining one of the most elusive OpusX vitolas with a 2004 vintage selection that has now accumulated more than two decades of age. For the serious Fuente aficionado, this is far more than a rare OpusX. It is an opportunity to experience a cigar whose age, provenance, and extraordinary scarcity place it firmly within collector territory.
The Piramide 56 Especiale is already an exceptionally difficult OpusX to encounter. Fuente Aged Selection records show the vitola appearing among the rare vintage cigars chosen for prestigious limited edition releases, including the 2015 OpusX 20th Anniversary Father and Son humidors. Only 200 of those humidors were released, each containing just four Piramide 56 Especiales among its collection of rare Fuente cigars.
This particular example takes that rarity considerably further.
The 2004 Aged Selection identifies the cigar with a vintage dating back more than twenty years. In a cigar world where even properly aged five or ten year old OpusX can command considerable attention, encountering a Fuente selected OpusX carrying a 2004 designation is something altogether different. Time has had decades to influence these tobaccos, making this not merely a scarce vitola, but a genuine vintage Fuente.
Its pedigree was further elevated when Fuente selected the Piramide 56 Especiale 2004 Aged Selection for La Gran Fumada “The Impossible Collection of 13” Volume II, an extraordinary assortment bringing together some of the rarest OpusX and Fuente cigars imaginable. The collection included aged selections from 2004 through 2007, event exclusives, unusual OpusX formats, and cigars seldom available through conventional retail channels.
The scale of that release illustrates just how scarce this cigar remains. Reporting on the U.S. release of The Impossible Collection stated that only 500 boxes were made available, with each collection containing a single Piramide 56 Especiale 2004 Aged Selection. Retail examples offered individually have predictably been difficult to obtain, with listings frequently appearing sold out.
At its heart is the legendary character of Fuente Fuente OpusX, the groundbreaking Dominican puro built around wrapper tobacco cultivated by the Fuente family in the Dominican Republic. The Piramide format concentrates that celebrated blend into an elegant tapered shape, providing an experience worthy of tobacco carrying this much history.
With more than two decades of maturation behind it, the attraction of this cigar extends beyond the power traditionally associated with OpusX. Extended aging can soften sharper edges and allow the tobacco’s deeper characteristics to emerge, creating the potential for a remarkably integrated expression of cedar, aged leather, earth, cocoa, baking spice, dried fruit, and natural tobacco sweetness.
But flavor is only part of what makes this cigar exceptional.
The Fuente Fuente OpusX Piramide 56 Especiale 2004 Aged Selection is a surviving piece of OpusX history. Every year that passes makes cigars from this selection more difficult to encounter as existing examples are smoked or disappear permanently into private collections.
This is not a cigar that can simply be replaced.
It combines an exceptionally scarce Piramide 56 Especiale vitola, a 2004 vintage designation, more than 20 years of age, and inclusion in a Fuente collection appropriately named “The Impossible Collection.”
For the dedicated Fuente collector, few things are more compelling than an OpusX with genuine age and documented provenance. The Piramide 56 Especiale 2004 Aged Selection offers both in abundance.
Rare OpusX can eventually return. A 2004 Aged Selection never gets any younger, and every cigar smoked makes the remaining examples that much rarer.
