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The handmade cigar industry gathered in Las Vegas this week at the PCA trade show to exhibit upcoming products and we've put together a list of the standout cigars and trade show highlights that caught our attention. | Cigar Aficionado

Meerapfel, the venerable grower of Cameroon tobacco, is returning to a former business by creating a cigar brand bearing the family name. | Cigar Aficionado

Two limited-edition sets of aged cigars from Arturo Fuente’s Fuente Fuente OpusX brand are finally making their way to select retailers. | Cigar Aficionado

Rolled at the La Gran Fabrica factory in Estelí, Nicaragua, the Herrera Esteli line was blended by and named after master blender Willy Herrera. Measuring 6 inches by 44 ring gauge, this slender corona is made with an Ecuador Habano wrapper, Honduran binder and Nicaragua fillers which come together to create a medium-to full-bodied smoke full of leather, walnut, molasses cookie and cocoa. See full tasting note. Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story (Dominican Republic, 92 points, $7.35) Theres a...

Share Photos/Prometheus International Inc. If you missed the initial winter release of Arturo Fuente’s Opus22 and OpusX Story travel humidor, the remaining batches of both 2020 special-edition sets are going out to retailers on May 17. Although regular-production Fuente Fuente OpusX cigars are quite rare, the Opus22 sampler contains 22 OpusX sizes that are even more esoteric, and not part of the core line. Every year, the Opus22 cigar se...

Factory Location: Dominican Republic Filler: Dom. Rep. Wrapper: Dom. Rep. One day in the early 1990s, Carlos Fuente Jr. was thumbing through the dictionary looking for inspiration. He had a new cigar brand in the works but it needed a name. Fuente found a good word: opulent. Then he found an even better one right below it: opus. In late 1995, the Fuente Fuente OpusX brand was released. Today, the cigar is still a phenomenon and one of the few Dominican puros on the market. OpusX owes much of i...