Uh, lemme see, uh oh well, I just better face the music now.

A while back, I was one who used to regularly say "Fuente products are OVERRATED, OVERPRICED, ......."

The first few Opus X I smoked I thought were horrible, they burned crooked, etc, were way too expensive and ridiculously hard to obtain from your local cigar shop and when I did, they wanted well above MSRP for them

I was extremely unimpressed with the first few Aņejos I smoked.

BUT I have to admit I have changed my mind.

I found that through my experiences on various cigar boards, I was able to find many shops and BOTL's who had access to these cigars for MSRP and I received a few as gifts. So I started smoking more of them. The more I smoked them, the more I liked them. One problem is that many cigar shops store their cigars too wet and Opus X cigars will have lots of burn problems when they are too wet. I've learned now to let them sit in my humi at 60% RH for a while and now they smoke fine

I'm still not too impressed with WOAM's or Hemmingway maduros but I LOVE :

Opus X (any size)
Aņejo (any size)
Diamond Crown Maximus (any size)

The lower end Fuentes don't do much for me nor do the regular Diamond Crowns or the Don Carlos but again, I feel that the higher end Fuentes are well worth the money.