The Arturo Fuente Opus X ReXilient American Flag Pack is a Tinder Box Haverford exclusive built around three landmark releases: the American flag-wrapped box press from the Fuente Fuente OpusX ReXilient, and both cigars from the Fuente y Padrón Legends collaboration.
Fuente Fuente OpusX United We Stand ReXilient: American Flag Box Press
ReXilient is Carlito Fuente's tribute for the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. He was in Philadelphia with his father, Carlos Fuente Sr., on the morning of September 11, 2001. Fuente worked with the FDNY, the NYPD and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on the packaging, which carries badge numbers of fallen first responders, and $11 from every box is donated to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
Each 20-count box holds 16 Churchills and only four of these 6¼ × 54 box-pressed cigars, each wrapped in the American flag. Two sit at the center of each tray to represent the Twin Towers. Carlito Fuente has said they are the first fully box-pressed cigars the company has ever made, square at both the head and the foot with a completely flat cap. They are made at Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia. in the Dominican Republic, and Arturo Fuente has not disclosed the blend.
Fuente y Padrón Legends
Legends began in 2020, when Carlito Fuente and Jorge Padrón agreed, after a Cigar Rights of America meeting at the Padrón offices in Miami, that each would blend a cigar honoring the other's late father: Carlos Fuente Sr. (1935–2016) and José Orlando Padrón (1926–2017). The cigars reached retailers in 2024 in a 40-count humidor holding 20 of each blend, allocated to select retailers by both companies, with net profits going to the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation and the Padrón Family Foundation. Both cigars share a band that joins the Fuente clock and the Padrón hammer, flanked by the signatures of the two men being honored.
Carlos Fuente Jr. Honoring José O. Padrón: blended by Carlito Fuente for Jorge Padrón's father and made at Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia. in the Dominican Republic. A 7 × 50 Churchill presented in a cedar sleeve.
Jorge Padrón Honoring Carlos A. Fuente: blended by Jorge Padrón for Carlito Fuente's father and made at Padrón's Tabacos Cubanica factory in Nicaragua. A 7 × 50 box-pressed Churchill.
Included Cigars:
- 1 x Fuente Fuente OpusX United We Stand ReXilient, American Flag Box Press
- 1 x Fuente y Padrón Legends: Carlos Fuente Jr. Honoring José O. Padrón
- 1 x Fuente y Padrón Legends: Jorge Padrón Honoring Carlos A. Fuente
Blend Information:
Fuente Fuente OpusX United We Stand ReXilient: American Flag Box Press
- Series/Line: Fuente Fuente OpusX ReXilient (25th anniversary of September 11th)
- Vitola: Box Press, 6 1/4 x 54, American flag wrap
- Wrapper, Binder, Filler: Not disclosed by Arturo Fuente
- Factory: Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia., Dominican Republic
- Charity: $11 per box donated to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation
Fuente y Padrón Legends: Carlos Fuente Jr. Honoring José O. Padrón
- Series/Line: Fuente y Padrón Legends
- Vitola: Churchill, 7 x 50, cedar sleeve
- Blender: Carlos "Carlito" Fuente Jr.
- Wrapper, Binder, Filler: Not disclosed
- Factory: Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia., Dominican Republic
Fuente y Padrón Legends: Jorge Padrón Honoring Carlos A. Fuente
- Series/Line: Fuente y Padrón Legends
- Vitola: Box-Pressed Churchill, 7 x 50
- Blender: Jorge Padrón
- Wrapper, Binder, Filler: Not disclosed
- Factory: Tabacos Cubanica S.A., Nicaragua
