A tribute to the early days of cigar making, Casa Cuba is the last blend of the late Carlos Fuente Sr. using the time-honored traditions he learned from his father Arturo Fuente, about the experience and flavor of Cuban cigars. Carlos Sr. selected an Ecuadorian Havana wrapper tobacco and chose a mix of Cuban-seed Dominican grown long filler and binder, and blended them in the same manner he used blending Cuban tobacco many years ago. The Casa Cuba by Fuente cigars are medium-bodied modern classics featuring flavors of woodiness, hints of spice and plenty of earthiness. The Casa Cuba made Cigar Aficionado's #23 in their Top 25 Cigars of 2016 with a rating of 92.
These extraordinary cigars are handcrafted at the iconic Tabacalera Fuente factory in the Dominican Republic. They're designed to emulate the classic Cuban-style cigars that Carlos Fuente Sr. crafted in his early career, offering tradition and quality. The wrapper on the Arturo Fuente Casa Cuba is Ecuadorian Havana, which none other than Don "Pepin" Garcia of My Father Cigars has called, "[T]he best cigar wrapper in the entire world" (certain crops of it, anyway). Going inside the Casa Cuba, we find a mixture of Cuban-seed Dominican tobaccos. So inside and out, we've got seeds from Cuba to provide a taste of the original motherland of cigars and give Casa Cuba it's essential character.
Casa Cuba is a cigar line to bring you right to that place. The names of the vitolas are names of dominoes: Doble Tres, Doble Cuatro, Doble Cinco, Doble Seis. This is a throwback to the old days of cigar making, long before the first issue of Cigar Aficionado was ever printed, and long before master blenders had the tastes of professional cigar reviewing panels in mind. Instead, it's simply a quality smoke that conjures flavors of Old Havana – and sometimes, that's all you need.