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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.
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Nice review MJ!!
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One of my favorites as well, although there is not a dealer in my new state of residence. So they are a little hard to find.
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Great review....I have one sitting in my humi that has 2 years on it and maybe I will let it rest for another year after reading this.
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I say let it rest. We had intended to let them rest another year an a half, but life happens.
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Thanks for the great review MJ.
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Nice review MJ!! I am with Frank on this too, the Power Ranger is a good little smoke.
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I've heard about Opus X....gonna have to find some. Thanks MJ
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Great review MJ
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Just had one with 2 years rest on it. Was very good. Smooth and peppery, lots of smoke and cedar. Was definitely full bodied and got a nice nicotine kick from it. I will definitely leave these alone for some more time
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Nice review, I love this cigar.
That creamy finish that comes in the second 1/3 I have yet to find in any other cigar.
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Love these smokes. If you can wait that long, I think these hit there peak smoking point at about 5 years.
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Thanks for the review, MJ. Now we only need to get a camera for you so you don't have to use the phone pictures.
Have had a couple of these. While the flavors are nice, the whole burn issue is a real problem. In my own personal opinion and experience, the burn issues becomes so much of a hassle that it makes the smoking of these so off-putting that it is not worth the effort. I have another one of these waiting in the wings. I am hoping some age with even out the burn a bit. But, that's just my own $0.02. Peace of the Lord be with you.
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