Everyone Was Wrong About Dominican Tobacco

For most of the twentieth century, the Dominican Republic was considered useful for one thing in cigar-making: filler tobacco. The climate was wrong, the soil was wrong, the conventional wisdom was unanimous. You could not grow wrapper-grade tobacco there. Carlos Fuente Jr. spent years trying anyway, on his family's land at Chateau de la Fuente. In 1992, he proved the industry wrong. The Opus X, launched in 1995, was the first cigar made entirely from Dominican tobacco, wrapper included. Before it existed, the phrase "Dominican puro" carried no meaning. This is the biography of the Arturo Fuente Opus X: how one family's refusal to accept the limits the industry had set changed what premium tobacco could be, and what it cost them to get there. No rankings. No reviews. Just the story behind the stick. Draw. tells the biography of iconic cigars, one cigar per film. The objects, the people, and the histories behind the smoke. #OpusX #ArturoFuente #Cigars