Tried a new Cigar today!! J. Fuego

At was at my favorite B&M and a gentleman that the owner had met in honduras came in to visit and market his new line.

I was there and got to try one...let me say it was a GREAT cigar. From the initial light to it being finished. Great burn, very sweet with a nice full body.

J. Fuego was the name of the line. I had the Corojo. I guess this guy used to run the Rocky Factories and has now started a small line of his own.

I will definitely be buying a box of these come next week or so when they store gets them. He said the tobaccos are aged 5 years it is a Corojo wrapper that is slowly fermented, and a little more than 50% nicaraguan and a little lass than 50% honduran filler.

Double ligero, and another compenent that is suppsoed to be super oily.


I am posting this becauseI have been trying new cigars lately and have been let down so many times. This was genuinly a VERY good cigar. I will be trying the natural(criollo wrapper) later this week to compare the two varieties.

So if you see them around definitely try one out.

BPP, SLC Kevin7 you guys heard of these or at least the family name Fuego?

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Originally Posted by guado

BPP, SLC Kevin7 you guys heard of these or at least the family name Fuego?

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Flattering to say the least. I am nowhere near the cigar expert as BPP or K7. No, I have never heard of these or heard of the name.

Fuego sounds familiar but distant ...........

I gotta think some more

I got one of the brochures. i will try to scan it and post it up.

Interesting quotes found online about J. Fuego. I bolded the parts i found most interesting.

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar...47,206,00.html

"Back in Arizona, he calls his right-hand man in Honduras, Jesus Fuego, saying that he wants him to reject any cigar that blisters as it burns. He's obsessed with longer fermentation and aging, trying to eliminate burn problems and the off flavors that come from under-worked tobacco."


http://www.bestcigarprices.com/best-honduran/

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Rocky, Rejuvenated
Conrado Plasencia is making his rounds at the family’s Paraiso Cigar factory in El Paraiso, just down the road from Danlí, when I arrive with the gregarious crew from Indian Tabac Cigar Company, and their American guests with whom I’d shared the bus ride from Tegucigalpa. Indian has recently re-energized its line of cigars with new blends bearing the name of its founder, Rocky Patel. In addition to the popular Vintage 1990 and 1992 cigars (produced at General Cigar’s Danlí plant), it has launched Rocky Patel Sun-Grown and The Edge, both produced here at Paraiso by Plasencia. Previously used to produce short-filler cigars for private-label customers, the facility dedicated the majority of its resources to Indian less than a year ago, according to Jesus Fuego, Indian’s Director of Honduran Operations. Along with the Sun-Grown and Edge brands, the factory makes Indian Tabac’s Classic, Super Fuerte, and Cameroon Legend lines, and has grown to 70 teams (one roller, and one buncher) turning out between 50,000 and 60,000 cigars a day. “There were always good rollers here,” Fuego explains as he leads us on a morning tour through the busy factory, “but for our premium cigars, we have a different standard [than for short filler]. We took the best people here and put them on our products, and we trained the rest. We still produce some short-fillers here and we train new rollers on those before moving them to the Indian Tabac products.” Fuego and the staff here are especially proud of the aging and fermentation that goes into Patel’s cigars, overseen by Peter Harkan, an industry veteran from the Netherlands who is now Plasencia’s right-hand man for tobacco processing in Honduras. Harkan’s employees in the sorting and fermentation departments study the bales and piles with a scrutiny rivaling a white-glove military inspection. “We have a, how do you say?...obsession with the sorting,” Jesus says, reaching for the right word. “Even when we get tobacco from plants that do all the sorting and fermentation before selling the tobacco, we usually re-ferment it until it’s the way we like it, about 80-90 percent of the time. Sometimes we also age it a bit more.” By way of example, Jesus invites me to inhale a faceful of some insufficiently fermented leaf. It reminds me of the first time I sampled tequila straight from the still at 150 proof; it is sharp, strong, and full of ammonia. By contrast, the RP Sun-Grown, smoked later after a traditional Honduran dinner with the Indian Tabac boys and their guests, is smooth and rich, the perfect dessert."

He definitely made a big deal about aging and fermenting properly when I talked to him. Seems he is definitely known about that. Probably why I liked his new cigar so much! I will be purchasing a box of the Belicoso size this week. My local B&M guy just rcvd the shipment today.

For those of you who sent me PM's about it I am still trying to get his contact info.

I did a google search after reading this and the only result was this thread:smiley1: . If anyone picks up a box and would like to sell a fiver please let me know. I am interested in trying these out. Sounds like we could have a winner here:smiley2:

On a podcast from Cigar.com, Rocky Patel is being interviewed and mentions Jesus Fuego

Episode:
11/3/06 13 minutes into it.