The Arturo Fuente Añejo Reserva #888 is a 6 7/8 x 44 Figurado and the rarest of the Añejo frontmarks — a long, elegantly tapered shape finished with a sharp head and a near-black Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro wrapper aged five years, reputed to be finished in cognac barrels. Underneath sits a Dominican binder and Dominican filler drawn from the same long-aged stocks Carlos Fuente Jr. uses in the Fuente Fuente OpusX. The #888 is packaged 24 per box (every other Añejo ships in 25s), a small signal of the extra handling this shape requires on the rolling bench.
Where the thicker Añejo vitolas lean into cocoa and raisin, the #888's slimmer ring gauge tips the balance toward strong coffee, earth, cedar, and a signature touch of maple sweetness — Cigar Aficionado scored it in the 90s and called out that same wood-and-maple character. Medium-full in body, slower and more contemplative than the Robusto, a proper reward smoke for a long evening.
Like the rest of the Añejo line, the #888 ships once a year around the holidays. When it's gone, it's gone until the next release.
- Vitola: Figurado, 6 7/8 x 44
- Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro (5-year aged)
- Binder: Dominican Republic
- Filler: Dominican Republic
- Factory: Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia, Dominican Republic
- Strength: Medium-Full
- Release: Limited annual holiday production (24 per box)
