Arturo Fuente Casa Cuba Divine Inspiration
The backstory alone would make this cigar significant, but the smoke confirms it. In the final months of his life, Carlos Fuente Sr. was too ill to travel to the Dominican Republic. He phoned the recipe into the factory from his bedside, and the cigar that resulted became his last creation before he passed away in August 2016. The Fuente family named it "Divine Inspiration" without irony. Available in a single vitola, a Corona Gorda at 6 1/8 x 47, and distributed in small batches only to select top-selling retail accounts, it is rarer than the original Casa Cuba line and more difficult to find. The specific blend details have never been formally disclosed by Fuente, but reviewers and the family confirm it shares the same Ecuadorian Habano wrapper and Dominican Cuban-seed binder and filler architecture as the original, with adjustments to tobacco primings that produce a noticeably richer and more nuanced result.
Cook time
1 hour
20 min
Total time
1 hour
20 min
Serves
★★★★★
Equipment
Dominican Republic
Ingredients
- Wrapper: Ecuador (Habano, undisclosed priming specifics)
- Binder: Dominican Republic (Cuban seed, undisclosed)
- Filler: Dominican Republic (Cuban seed, undisclosed)