Fire at Fuente
 

Not sure if anyone has seen this yet but I saw this yesterday while at the lounge.
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfe.../show/id/16095

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Damn, that sucks. Hope they are able to recover from this one as well.

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Sad. Must have smelled great though. JK.

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Ouch!....looks like they lost some old/aged tobacco...

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Ouch!! Some rare/old tobacco that was being "saved" for special projects was lost.

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wow crazy stuff. i hope everything turns out ok for them.

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Glad no one was hurt in the fire.

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9 fires in their history?? Sounds like they need an better plan. :2

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I saw that last night. Pretty devastating to lose that much rare tobacco. I wonder how this will affect their production and special projects.

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That's a shame! I wonder if this will hurt their supply and these will become scarce cigars for awhile. Glad no one was hurt though.

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urgh... thats bad...

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Man I hate to see these things happen. I am sure they will rebound given time.

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Good thing I don't really care for their cigars...prices are probably going to go up.

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Curing barns exploding and tobacco warehouses burning is, unfortunately, just part of the business.

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I assumed what Adam said. When you're fermenting, you're gonna have fires. Not cleaning poop out of the barn well enough will start a real nice fire from fermenting poop. I imagine not turning bales and not keeping super clean is a good way to burn down a curing barn, as well.

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Sad indeed. I agree...prices will go up.

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That sucks hard core. Time to stock up on some AFs

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This is a big bummmmer... I hope there pricing wont shoot up. -(P

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They should have bottled the smoke.

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ouch...that sucks hardcore.

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Yikes!:eek:

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Time to stock up on A Fuentes.

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Cigars come and go, people do not. I am relieved that only tobacco was lost to the fire.

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what a shame

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That's one heck of a fire load. Glad no one was hurt.

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Glad to see no one was hurt, but ouch, thats gotta hurt financially. Hopefully business isn't too disrupted for them.

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If I remember correctly, Fuente's landed in Dominican because their mainland business went up in smoke?

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That's really unfortunate. Fuente smokers, you guys better stock up.

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Wow...that sucks! Did you see that there were tobaccos as old as 1960? That is just sad...

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BTW, what brands does Fuente make other than A. Fuente and Opus X?

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He blends a lot of JC Newman stuff, like Diamond Crown, Cuesta Rey, etc.

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Ouch...

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Diamond Crown
Cuesta Rey
Brick House
El Baton
La Unica
Ashton ESG
God of Fire
Montesino

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I thought Brickhouse and El Baton were JC Newman blended, though its not surprising if Fuente does all their blends.

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Wow that sucks.

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El Baton and Brick House are not made by Fuente. They are manufactured in Nicaragua by Tabacos San Rafael and utilize only Nicaraguan tobacco.

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Very Sad

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Glad no one was hurt! Gotta suck for Fuente, but no matter, the workers are more important than the tobacco.

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Man, the Fuentes must've pissed off the fire-gods in a previous life. They have they worst history with these facility fires. :(

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Damn, I'm heading to a Fuente event tonight. Sucks that it happened, but very good that no one was injured.

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What a loss, bet you could have smelled those rare leaves several miles away.

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As you may know, G.L. Pease is a world-class American pipe tobacco blender; he, as well as another prolific blender, Craig Tarler, had bought a container? of rare and outstanding Syrian Latakia. The building that housed it burnt down and destroyed all of the tobacco. This was ~2005, and no Syrian Latakia of any quality has been available since. Although both Cyprian Latakia, which is still available, and Syrian, have a common taste, Syrian is highly-prized for its complexity. Syrian has become unavailable because the Syrian government halted its production as the wood necessary to smoke it was depleting Syria's forests.