#15 2024 Cigar of the Year

#15 2024 Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Eye of the Bull

SPECIFICATIONS

Wrapper: Cameroon
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican
County of Origin: Dominican Republic
Factory: Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia
Vitola: 3 1/2 x 55
Price: $12.80

Sponsor: No
Samples Provided for Initial Review: No
Review: Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Eye of the Bull
Appearances on Countdown (By Year/Company): 1 (2024)

The Details

The Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Eye of the Bull comes in at #15 on the 2024 Cigar Coop Cigar of the Year Countdown.

The Eye of the Bull debuted at the 2023 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, but if you looked closely at the Fuente booth at the 2022 PCA Show, you might have seen it tucked away. The Eye of the Bull has two distinguishing characteristics. First, it is a short but plump cigar, measuring only 3 1/2 x 55. Second, the cap has something resembling a bullseye on it – which is just a small, dark, circular Maduro. The cigar was a project spearheaded by Arturo Fuente International Executive President Ciro Cascella. It is the second “Eye” in the Don Carlos brand as the more famous “Eye” is the Don Carlos Eye of the Shark.

Keeping with the tradition of much of the Don Carlos brand, the Don Carlos Eye of the Bull features a Cameroon wrapper sourced from Africa by the Meerapfel family over all Dominican tobaccos grown at Chateau de la Fuente. Production for the Eye of the Bull comes from Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia in the Dominican Republic.

 

The Eye of the Bull is a small cigar, but it’s loaded with flavor. Eye of the Bull delivered a combination of coffee, natural tobacco, cedar, baker’s spice, cream, and pepper. The trend for the 2024 Countdown has been medium-strength, medium-bodied cigars, and the Eye of the Bull fits into this category.

Arturo Fuente became the first company in 2024 to land two cigars on the Countdown. A few days earlier, the Rare Pink Vintage 1960s Vintage Sophisticated Hooker gave Fuente its first Countdown Cigar. The Eye of the Bull has given the Dominican Republic five cigars on this year’s Countdown.

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