Don Carlos #2 (original release)

[NCRadioMan]

Originally Posted by RevSmoke

Are you sure? I don't remember them in '80s!

Or maybe they were out or my price range then and I didn't even look hard at them? No, can't be.

Got the info here: http://www.cigarcyclopedia.com/webap.../view/1554/27/

The Fuente Aged Selection Don Carlos Edicion de Aniversario first appeared in 2006 as a tribute by Carlito Fuente to his father on the 30th anniversary of the debut of the Arturo Fuente Don Carlos series.

However, I just found this:

The Arturo Fuente Don Carlos was originally released in 1976, taken off the market when the Fuentes lost everything to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and re-introduced in 1986 for the European market. Rolling with 1984 crop tobacco, through spring of 1997 it was only available in two sizes (Robusto and Reserva No. 3, which was a corona extra). In an interview with Matt Matalamaki late in 1997, Carlos Fuente Jr. informed us that as of early 1997 they began using tobacco from 1986 crops and would release the Presidente, Double Robusto, Reserva No. 2, and Reserva No. 4 by summer or fall of 1998.

http://www.stogieguys.com/2007/11/11...rlos-no-2.html

Looks like '98 rolled with '86 baccy.