Fire at Fuente

[neoflex]

Not sure if anyone has seen this yet but I saw this yesterday while at the lounge.
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/16095

[Ogre]

Damn, that sucks. Hope they are able to recover from this one as well.

[76GTFan]

Sad. Must have smelled great though. JK.

[BigAsh]

Ouch!....looks like they lost some old/aged tobacco...

[kelmac07]

Ouch!! Some rare/old tobacco that was being "saved" for special projects was lost.

[Drez]

wow crazy stuff. i hope everything turns out ok for them.

[maninblack]

Glad no one was hurt in the fire.

[kickerb]

9 fires in their history?? Sounds like they need an better plan. :2

[Beagleone]

I saw that last night. Pretty devastating to lose that much rare tobacco. I wonder how this will affect their production and special projects.

[irratebass]

That's a shame! I wonder if this will hurt their supply and these will become scarce cigars for awhile. Glad no one was hurt though.

[gbum]

urgh... thats bad...

[Mikess]

Man I hate to see these things happen. I am sure they will rebound given time.

[DPD6030]

Good thing I don't really care for their cigars...prices are probably going to go up.

[T.G]

9 fires in their history?? Sounds like they need an better plan. :2

Curing barns exploding and tobacco warehouses burning is, unfortunately, just part of the business.

[shilala]

I assumed what Adam said. When you're fermenting, you're gonna have fires. Not cleaning poop out of the barn well enough will start a real nice fire from fermenting poop. I imagine not turning bales and not keeping super clean is a good way to burn down a curing barn, as well.

[ucla695]

Sad indeed. I agree...prices will go up.

[WittyUserName]

That sucks hard core. Time to stock up on some AFs

[N2 GOLD]

This is a big bummmmer... I hope there pricing wont shoot up. -(P

[Zeuceone]

They should have bottled the smoke.

[thechrisdotcom]

ouch...that sucks hardcore.

[Skywalker]

Yikes!:eek:

[cmitch]

Time to stock up on A Fuentes.

[chand]

Cigars come and go, people do not. I am relieved that only tobacco was lost to the fire.

[hscmit]

what a shame

[lyle23]

That's one heck of a fire load. Glad no one was hurt.

[DaBear]

Glad to see no one was hurt, but ouch, thats gotta hurt financially. Hopefully business isn't too disrupted for them.

[shilala]

If I remember correctly, Fuente's landed in Dominican because their mainland business went up in smoke?

[Adriftpanda]

That's really unfortunate. Fuente smokers, you guys better stock up.

[Newbie_nick]

Wow...that sucks! Did you see that there were tobaccos as old as 1960? That is just sad...

[Newbie_nick]

BTW, what brands does Fuente make other than A. Fuente and Opus X?

[DaBear]

BTW, what brands does Fuente make other than A. Fuente and Opus X?

He blends a lot of JC Newman stuff, like Diamond Crown, Cuesta Rey, etc.

[Aporschaguy]

Ouch...

[Hot Stuff x]

BTW, what brands does Fuente make other than A. Fuente and Opus X?

Diamond Crown
Cuesta Rey
Brick House
El Baton
La Unica
Ashton ESG
God of Fire
Montesino

[DaBear]

Diamond Crown
Cuesta Rey
Brick House
El Baton
La Unica
Ashton ESG
God of Fire
Montesino

I thought Brickhouse and El Baton were JC Newman blended, though its not surprising if Fuente does all their blends.

[IBQTEE1]

Wow that sucks.

[T.G]

Diamond Crown
Cuesta Rey
Brick House
El Baton
La Unica
Ashton ESG
God of Fire
Montesino

El Baton and Brick House are not made by Fuente. They are manufactured in Nicaragua by Tabacos San Rafael and utilize only Nicaraguan tobacco.

[whodeeni]

Very Sad

[Hippiebrian]

Glad no one was hurt! Gotta suck for Fuente, but no matter, the workers are more important than the tobacco.

[Doctorossi]

Man, the Fuentes must've pissed off the fire-gods in a previous life. They have they worst history with these facility fires. :(

[joeybear]

Damn, I'm heading to a Fuente event tonight. Sucks that it happened, but very good that no one was injured.

[Tbagley]

What a loss, bet you could have smelled those rare leaves several miles away.

[alfredo_buscatti]

As you may know, G.L. Pease is a world-class American pipe tobacco blender; he, as well as another prolific blender, Craig Tarler, had bought a container? of rare and outstanding Syrian Latakia. The building that housed it burnt down and destroyed all of the tobacco. This was ~2005, and no Syrian Latakia of any quality has been available since. Although both Cyprian Latakia, which is still available, and Syrian, have a common taste, Syrian is highly-prized for its complexity. Syrian has become unavailable because the Syrian government halted its production as the wood necessary to smoke it was depleting Syria's forests.