Arturo Fuente Anejos #48

[Thecatch83]

Purchased a fiver of the #48's a few months ago, and decided to fire one up while the others are put away to age for the next year (at least). Essentially the Opus blend from Chateau Fuente covered in a sweet cognac aged maduro wrapper, the Anejo has a delicious floral and sticky aroma of chocolate and coffee with perfect construction. After cutting the head with my xicar, two things immediately came to mind. A: This cigar is packed so full it will have draw problems and B: This stick is going to last over two hours and kick my ass through every minute of that two hours.

Size-7 x 48
Filler- Dom. Republic
Wrapper- Maduro
Strength- Full Body
Cut- Xicar
Smoke Time- 1 hour 55 minutes

After smoking the Anejo 48, I've come to the realization that Fuente just doesn't produce a bad smoke. The consistency with their cigars is outstanding to say the least. Draw was perfect, great smoke output, ash held on for a good inch and a half (30 min. intervals), complex flavors of chewy and oily coffee, cocoa, tobacco. After an hour in, I did get a nice buzz from this stick and could barely make it to the band. Cigar was definitely full body, but without being intrusive or over the top. Would I buy more of these? Without question, although I would like to try other vitolas in the Anejo family.

 

[hdroadglide]

try the shark!

 

[Bsneed51]

The 48 is my second favorite size of Anejo. It's a good distance behind the 46 in my opinion.

 

[blown_smoke]

I am a fan of the 46 myself...

 

[txaggie9307]

In my opinion, I would rank my top 3 Anejo Vitolas in this order:

1. No. 55 Torpedo
2. No. 77 Shark
3. No. 50 Robusto

 

[danthebugman]

Great review, thank you for sharing :thumbsup:. The 50 is probably my fav, though I haven't smoked the Shark yet...just looks so pretty in my humidor :laugh:.

Dan

 

[Thecatch83]

I agree about the other Vitola's being more to my liking. And to clarify, the Anejo does include Opus X filler, but also includes different tobacco grown at the same chateau Fuente farm.

 

[Gokian]

Thank you for the review.

 

[terrantheman]

Love the 48's great review and yes it's hard to beat a Fuente, lol. I love the new 60's really a great size.

 

[mk05]

Nothing's quite like the 55 in my opinion. The rest just don't hold a candle to me at all.

 

[cigarhombre]

I just LOVE Anejos! the cocca, and sweet sweet flavors are lovely; they are soooo smooth.....yum!

After smoking my first one; I went out and bought a box worth of the different vitolas. I love them all. The 46 is my fav. when I only have a short time to smoke. When I want to sit and smoke for a while, the 48 is always my pick. great wrapper to filler ratio, which IMHO is important with this smoke, as the wrapper is what gives this smoke its greatness.

Anejos are in my top 10 all-time cigars, and they only get better with age!

a 5 year aged Anejo is like heaven to me!!!!!

 

[ciggy]

I love this cigar as well. Thanks for the review and pics!!

 

[cmhicksusmc]

Great review thanx for sharing!!!

48 is one of my favs