Arturo Fuente Chateau Fuente Double Chateau Fuente Maduro
📌 Brand: Arturo Fuente
📌 Line: Chateau Fuente (Double Chateau Fuente Maduro)
📌 Size: Duble Corona (approx 6 3/4" × 50)
📌 Weight: 18.9 g
📌 Age: 8 years
📌 Origin: Dominican Republic
Tasting Notes
Cedar – Smooth, warm wood foundation
Dark Cocoa – Subtle, restrained sweetness
Coffee – Mild roasted note beneath the surface
Earth – Gently grounding throughout
First Impressions
The Double Chateau Maduro shows a dark, glossy Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper with firm feel and classic Fuente pedigree. Pre-light aroma brings cedar, earth, and cocoa. Cold draw offers smooth yet mellow resistance with cocoa and lightly toasted wood.
Smoking Experience
First Third – Warm cedar and gentle cocoa open the session. Burn is clean and even.
Second Third – Earth and coffee notes deepen; balanced spice sits in the background. Complexity is satisfying here.
Final Third – Flavors soften and become bland, losing the earlier cocoa and spice intensity. Burn remains stable, but the profile feels flatter and less engaging.
Pairings
Alcohol – Burgundy Pinot Noir - Red fruit, earth, and subtle spice complement the cigar’s wood and coffee notes without overpowering the final third’s softer profile.
Tea – Anhui Huangshan Maofeng Green Tea - Light floral and vegetal sweetness helps lift the palate as the cigar’s flavors mellow out.
Music Pairing
“Down So Long” – Jose Gonzalez
Warm folk tones matching the cigar’s mellow progression.
Final Thoughts
Arturo Fuente’s Chateau Fuente Double Chateau Maduro delivers the lineage’s hallmark smooth cedar, cocoa, coffee, and earth. The first two thirds are balanced and pleasant, but the final third becomes bland and flat, lacking the complexity shown earlier in the smoke.
Final Score: 8/10
Why not a 10?
A noticeable taper in flavor complexity and intensity in the final third left the experience feeling incomplete.
Only cigars that deliver flawless draw, balance, flavour evolution, construction and satisfaction get a 10.