Arturo Fuente Anejos #48

Purchased a fiver of the #48's a few months ago, and decided to fire one up while the others are put away to age for the next year (at least). Essentially the Opus blend from Chateau Fuente covered in a sweet cognac aged maduro wrapper, the Anejo has a delicious floral and sticky aroma of chocolate and coffee with perfect construction. After cutting the head with my xicar, two things immediately came to mind. A: This cigar is packed so full it will have draw problems and B: This stick is going to last over two hours and kick my ass through every minute of that two hours.

Size-7 x 48
Filler- Dom. Republic
Wrapper- Maduro
Strength- Full Body
Cut- Xicar
Smoke Time- 1 hour 55 minutes









After smoking the Anejo 48, I've come to the realization that Fuente just doesn't produce a bad smoke. The consistency with their cigars is outstanding to say the least. Draw was perfect, great smoke output, ash held on for a good inch and a half (30 min. intervals), complex flavors of chewy and oily coffee, cocoa, tobacco. After an hour in, I did get a nice buzz from this stick and could barely make it to the band. Cigar was definitely full body, but without being intrusive or over the top. Would I buy more of these? Without question, although I would like to try other vitolas in the Anejo line.