Industry night · Santiago, DO

Inside the Arturo Fuente factory, Santiago

Name: Inside the Arturo Fuente factory, Santiago
Start: 2020-02-07
Location: Santiago, DO

In his words: this is not a cigar factory any more. It is a museum, a school and a university.

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Inside the Arturo Fuente factory, Santiago — February 7, 2020

1 of ~28rollers cleared for the Opus XCigar Journal, 2016

6 minone cigar, in front of youHis own words

150+events workedFranklin’s own count

Fuente world at Santiago Dominican Republic This is not a cigar factory anymore...This is an Museum,School, & University where you learn more and more of the real history of the tobacco in this industry!

Franklin PichardoPosted February 7, 2020

1 of ~28 Opus X rollers—Arturo Fuente since 1995—Official roller · F1 Miami—Published in Cigar Journal—A quarter century at the table—Rolled for Hublot—

The man at that table

Franklin Pichardo has been rolling since 1995, the year Arturo Fuente released the first Opus X — and he is one of the few in the world the family cleared to roll it.

How he got there