Dominican Puro

Fuente Fuente OpusX

Pepper and cedar with cocoa‑sweet finishes

Arturo Fuente

About Fuente Fuente OpusX

Fuente Fuente OpusX is Arturo Fuente’s flagship Dominican puro, launched in 1995 and built around a dark, oily Corojo Cuban‑seed wrapper grown at Château de la Fuente. The cigars typically run medium‑full to full, opening with pepper and cedar and finishing with cocoa and coffee sweetness. OpusX’s farming, closed‑cabinet aging and distinctive presentation are central to its reputation as both a benchmark and a collectible.

  • Made in Dominican Republic
  • Medium-Full
  • Dominican OpusX wrapper (Chateau de la Fuente)
  • Red pepper, leather, cedar, earth, cocoa, coffee, brown-sugar sweetness

Key Details

Made By

Arturo Fuente

Made In

Dominican Republic

First Introduced

1995

Strength

Medium-Full

Wrapper Focus

Dominican OpusX wrapper (Chateau de la Fuente)

Known For

Fuente Fuente OpusX

Official Website

arturofuente.com

Dominican Puro

Fuente Fuente OpusX

Fuente Fuente OpusX is Arturo Fuente’s signature Dominican puro built around tobacco from the Chateau de la Fuente farm; it established the idea that Dominican wrapper leaf could deliver power, sweetness and pedigree and typically lands in the medium‑full to full strength lane with cedar, cocoa and pepper notes.

Sizes

  • Belicoso XXX (4.625" x 49)
  • PerfecXion No. 5 (4.875" x 40)
  • PerfecXion No. 4 Series X (5.125" x 43)
  • Robusto (5.25" x 50)
  • PerfecXion 77 Shark (5.5" x 52)
  • Super Belicoso (5.5" x 52)
  • Fuente Fuente (5.625" x 46)
  • Double Robusto (5.75" x 52)
  • PerfecXion X (6.25" x 48)
  • Petite Lancero (6.25" x 39)
  • PerfecXion No. 2 (6.375" x 52)
  • Reserva D' Chateau (7.0" x 48)
  • Double Corona (7.625" x 49)
  • PerfecXion A (9.125" x 47)

Strength

Medium-Full

Wrapper

Dominican OpusX wrapper (Chateau de la Fuente)

Binder

Dominican

Filler

Dominican puro (Fuente-grown long filler)

OpusX is the family’s flagship puro: wrapper, binder and filler tied to the Chateau de la Fuente farm and presented in classic formats that range from robustos to lancero and larger coronas. The wrapper—dark, toothy Dominican leaf developed by the Fuentes—drives a profile that balances forward spice (red and black pepper) with a cocoa/coffee backbone, cedary structure and brown‑sugar sweetness that lingers into a leathery finish. Texture is dense and often oily, smoke output generous, and construction across core vitolas is consistently praised; young OpusX can be bracing, but the cigar rewards aging with added finesse and balance.

Articles & Reviews

Video Gallery

Casa Fuente Double Robusto Cigar Review | #LeeMack912 (S08 E11)

Arturo Fuente Opus X 2020 Dubai Sol d’Amor Cigar Review Ep. 1 - Szn 3

2025 Cigar of the Year Countdown (Coop’s List): #19: Fuente Fuente OpusX La Edición De La Sociedad

Fuente Fuente OpusX Rosado Oscuro Oro PerfecXion X Cigar Review

Fuente Fuente OpusX TAA 2016 Cigar Review

Fuente Fuente Opus X, o ícone máximo da Arturo Fuente

Fuente Fuente Opus X Shark (2019) Cigar Review

Fuente Fuente Opus X XXX Beliscoso Cigar Review

Frequently Asked Questions

OpusX uses a dark, oily Cuban‑seed Corojo wrapper grown at the Fuente family’s Chateau de la Fuente in the Dominican Republic. That wrapper—developed and aged on the estate—brought a peppery, mineral and sweet complexity to a Dominican puro at a time when many thought such wrapper quality couldn’t be achieved there.