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Casa Fuente Experience

fetterjohn

fetterjohn

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Well...I saw it and lived it. I had a Casa Fuente experience and it was good.

I bought a couple of the Casa Fuente corona gordas. The guy that worked there said that they are Opus X filler and Binder with a Camoroon wrapper. Tasted great...perfect cigar just as Fuente always puts out...but there was one thing that kinda chewed at me while I was smoking it. It tasted exactly like an Ashton VSG! My buddy I was with has owned a cigar store in the past and has smoked way more cigars in his life than I ever will...and he said the same thing. VSG with a Casa Fuente band. I guess you have to experience it for yourself...and smoke one for yourself. But they are very tasty...but over priced ($18). I think the robusto is $20 and so on.
There is a bar inside the shop and we had great mojitos made with Monticristo rum....yum! Great atmosphere. Good looking girl behind the bar. Good friends and good smokes. What else is there?

-Fetter
 
Glad you had a good time and had a chance to try one of the hard-to-find cigar. As for me, <But they are very tasty...but over priced ($18). I think the robusto is $20 and so on.>, that is too rich for my blood. I am a conservative person so I am careful about the dollar value on almost every thing. I would not have enjoy the cigar throughly knowing that it burns an $18 hole in my pocket. Like they said "It is HELL to be poor..." :p
 
hrm... I don't think the Casa Fuentes taste anything like VSGs... interesting that you had that experience. VSGs have a very different wrapper (sungrown Ecuadorian vs. Cameroon) and have very different filler, and a very different taste profile than the Casa Fuentes, IMHO.

Carlito stated that the Casa Fuentes started off as Opus X cigars with a Cameroon wrapper, and then the blend was tweaked a bit to be slightly different from that. I think perhaps a bit of don carlos and/or hemingway tobacco was added, making them taste somewhat like a cross between an Opus and an Añejo... with a Cammie wrapper, and the taste that brings.

Yes, they are overpriced -- but they are cheap for the Vegas Strip -- price out Opus or other premium cigars at the Davidoff shop. ;)

fetterjohn said:
Well...I saw it and lived it. I had a Casa Fuente experience and it was good.

I bought a couple of the Casa Fuente corona gordas. The guy that worked there said that they are Opus X filler and Binder with a Camoroon wrapper. Tasted great...perfect cigar just as Fuente always puts out...but there was one thing that kinda chewed at me while I was smoking it. It tasted exactly like an Ashton VSG! My buddy I was with has owned a cigar store in the past and has smoked way more cigars in his life than I ever will...and he said the same thing. VSG with a Casa Fuente band. I guess you have to experience it for yourself...and smoke one for yourself. But they are very tasty...but over priced ($18). I think the robusto is $20 and so on.
There is a bar inside the shop and we had great mojitos made with Monticristo rum....yum! Great atmosphere. Good looking girl behind the bar. Good friends and good smokes. What else is there?

-Fetter
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Moki,

Whatever Carlito said has to be correct...but he sure didn't teach the staff at the store that. The guy I spoke with was very forward with the Casa Fuente being nothing but Opus X filler and Camaroon wrapper. Said nothing about any other blend. But whatever...it's still a good smoke...not something I'll go looking around for in the future, though. I've got one for my collection that I'll smoke in a few months. I'm happy. :)
What I was very happy about was the abundance of 858 Maduros and WOAM's. Lots and lots of them!!! So I bought a couple of each...they're just so damn hard to find on a regular basis...at least the WOAM's are. But I got 'em and I'll smoke 'em! :thumbs:

-Fetter
 
Well, Fuente doesn't run the store... Robbie Levin of Holts fame does... and the chicks there were hired because they look good, not for their cigar knowledge. :)

fetterjohn said:
Moki,

Whatever Carlito said has to be correct...but he sure didn't teach the staff at the store that. The guy I spoke with was very forward with the Casa Fuente being nothing but Opus X filler and Camaroon wrapper. Said nothing about any other blend. But whatever...it's still a good smoke...not something I'll go looking around for in the future, though. I've got one for my collection that I'll smoke in a few months. I'm happy. :)
What I was very happy about was the abundance of 858 Maduros and WOAM's. Lots and lots of them!!! So I bought a couple of each...they're just so damn hard to find on a regular basis...at least the WOAM's are. But I got 'em and I'll smoke 'em! :thumbs:

-Fetter
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Actually I need to reverse my first opinion on the Casa Fuente smokes...my mistasting and poor critique was due partly to alcohol and bad infuence of a good friend who does know a lot about cigars but has killed his taste buds over the years. I smoked a second one and was very impressed and think that it is a great smoke of it's own flavor.
But about the help...it wasn't the girls...it was the guys who were there that night that told me what the blend was. Said nothing about Don Carlos or Hemmingway tobacco...only said Opus X and Camaroon. So that's what I thought. But still very good and satisfying. Just try not to make them a habit because they are very expensive. Not to mention hard to get.

-Fetter
 
Well, they may be right -- it is my guess that it has some Don Carlos and Hemingway tobacco in it -- it may not. All I know is that it started off as an Opus blend with a cameroon wrapper, and was tweaked from there.

As for the guys working there... well, I guess they don't know what they are talking about either. Who knows why they were hired! :)

fetterjohn said:
Actually I need to reverse my first opinion on the Casa Fuente smokes...my mistasting and poor critique was due partly to alcohol and bad infuence of a good friend who does know a lot about cigars but has killed his taste buds over the years. I smoked a second one and was very impressed and think that it is a great smoke of it's own flavor.
But about the help...it wasn't the girls...it was the guys who were there that night that told me what the blend was. Said nothing about Don Carlos or Hemmingway tobacco...only said Opus X and Camaroon. So that's what I thought. But still very good and satisfying. Just try not to make them a habit because they are very expensive. Not to mention hard to get.

-Fetter
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Is the Fao still there???...or maybe they remodled it...

I am going down monday if you wanna catch up
 
Alright, no one has done any justice in pics or describing this store. Andrew, when you visit, show me the light brudda! :D
 
KayakinBoy said:
Alright, no one has done any justice in pics or describing this store. Andrew, when you visit, show me the light brudda! :D
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Just visited it today -- very sweet store. I didn't take any pictures :/

The guys working there seemed quite knowledgeable and friendly. Gotta love lighting up a Casa Fuente, sipping on a Mojito, and watching all of the hotties bop in and out of the Playboy store and Victoria's Secret.
 
moki said:
Just visited it today -- very sweet store. I didn't take any pictures :/

The guys working there seemed quite knowledgeable and friendly. Gotta love lighting up a Casa Fuente, sipping on a Mojito, and watching all of the hotties bop in and out of the Playboy store and Victoria's Secret.
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That sounds almost like Heaven, good cigars, great drinks and an wonderful view. :p
 
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