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The quiet Salon Don Carlos Fuente

Inside the Arturo Fuente factory, in the room named after Don Carlos.

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The quiet Salon Don Carlos Fuente — February 14, 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
Happy Fuente Friday from the quiet Salon Don Carlos Fuente Sir at Tabacalera A.
Franklin PichardoPosted February 14, 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

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