Fuente Fuente Opus X xXx ("Power Ranger")

[Emjaysmash]

I bought this cigar over a year and a half ago as a celebratory cigar for my best friend and I to smoke when we graduated college. We moved up the smoking date a bit as he is now joining the Marine Corps, so we decided to smoke this bad boy as it may be the last time we have a cigar together for a while.

Fuente Fuente Opus X xXx ("Power Ranger")



Size:4.625 x 49
Wrapper: Dominican Rosado
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican

Pre-light draw: good, free with resistance

Appearance: medium brown slightly mottle wrapper with small veins.

Flavors:



First third:
Smooth pepper, cedar. Medium body, slight pepper finish on the palate. Reminiscent of a Ramon Allones Special Selection. Pepper smooths out to creaminess and leather. Hints of chocolate weave in and out. Full bodied nicotine-wise.




Second Third: very much the same as the first third.



Final Third:
Leather predominates with sweet chocolate and cocoa under tones. The pepper has completely dissipated leaving a smooth creamy finish on the palate.



Ash: solid, only slightly flaky but ashed when I wanted it to.

Burn: my only contention was the burn was very wavy and needed to be touched up often.

Overall: I would say this has been the best Opus that I had had to date. Very much worth the $12-15 price tag I paid for it over a year and a half ago. I'm very interested in how these fair after 3 of 5 years.