Arturo Fuente Casa Cuba Double Tres

📌 Brand: Arturo Fuente
📌 Line: Casa Cuba
📌 Size: Doble Tres (5 1/2" × 44) Corona
📌 Weight: 9.5 g
📌 Age: 4 years
📌 Origin: Dominican Republic

Tasting Notes

• Sweet Cream – Smooth, elegant foundation

• Cedar – Classic Fuente woodiness

• Citrus Zest – Light, bright accent that lifts the profile

• White Pepper – Gentle but persistent retrohale spice

First Impressions

The Casa Cuba Doble Tres carries a silky, light-brown Ecuadorian wrapper with minimal veins and a clean, traditional presentation. Pre-light aromas reveal cream, cedar, and light floral sweetness. Cold draw is ideal with soft cedar and faint spice.

Smoking Experience

• First Third – Cream and cedar open the show with subtle citrus zest teasing through the background. Burn flawless and smoke production excellent.

• Second Third – Pepper becomes more present, blending smoothly with the cream. Citrus lifts the mid-palate, adding elegance and subtle complexity.

• Final Third – Pepper sharpens slightly, cedar deepens, but a relight is needed near the end. Otherwise balanced and consistent to the nub.

Pairings

• Alcohol – Presidente Marti 15 Year Rum , soft caramel, toasted oak, and tropical sweetness that complement the cigar’s cream and citrus tones.

• Tea – Taiwanese Four Seasons Oolong, bright and floral with a clean finish that enhances the cigar’s light, elegant profile.

Music Pairing

“Brown Sugar” – D’Angelo

Smooth and creamy, just like the cigar’s opening.

Final Thoughts

The Casa Cuba Doble Tres delivers classic Fuente elegance — cream, cedar, citrus, and pepper in harmonious balance. One relight in the final third was the only blemish in an otherwise refined experience.

Final Score: 9/10
Why not a 10?
Required a relight at the end, otherwise a beautifully balanced, gracefully executed cigar.

Only cigars that deliver flawless draw, balance, flavour evolution, construction and satisfaction get a 10.