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Private party · Saratoga Springs, NY

A garden party in Saratoga Springs

A marquee on a lawn, the lamps on, and the table still going after dark. He rolled one at a time for the guests, and the last cigars came off the board past midnight.

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A garden party in Saratoga Springs — August 7, 2026
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
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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