It took Carlos Fuente Jr. seventeen years of agricultural failure to grow the wrapper that made OpusX. The result is the most coveted cigar made outside Cuba.

The Plasencia family has grown tobacco for 160 years. For most of that time they grew it for other people's cigars. The story of how they built their own brand is one of the more interesting in modern cigars.

From a Geneva tobacconist's son to the most recognised name in non-Cuban premium cigars — the Davidoff story is the story of modern cigar craft.

Opus X is the famous chapter. The wider Arturo Fuente story — fires, exile, family — is the one that explains why the brand is what it is.

Perdomo grows everything from the seed up. The result is a vertically integrated Nicaraguan operation that quietly delivers some of the best value in premium cigars.