Arturo Fuente Chateau Fuente Sun Grown King B - BOX OF 18

A big-ring Torpedo built for smokers who already know they like a slow, unhurried session. King B wraps a dark, oily Ecuadorian Sun Grown leaf around Dominican binder and long-filler tobacco, aged in Spanish cedar vaults, and finished in the Sun Grown series' signature cedar sleeve with a black ribbon collar at the foot that distinguishes it from the standard Chateau Fuente line's green ribbon. At 6 x 55, this is one of the wider formats in the whole Chateau family, delivering well over 90 minutes of smoke.

The cold aroma offers subtle notes of wood and earth, and upon lighting, the flavor develops complex early notes of pepper, cocoa, and a slight sweetness. Cedar dominates the initial light, with lots of spice and cedar carrying through the first third before the second third mellows into leather with cocoa on the finish. The final stretch brings spice back up front alongside leather and old wood, a genuinely long, patient arc that rewards taking your time with it rather than rushing through.

It's important to be direct here: reception to King B genuinely divides more than most cigars in the Fuente catalog. Longtime buyers, some with twenty years of smoking this exact cigar, describe it as a go-to smoke that builds real flavor as you work through it, an excellent after-dinner cigar worth the wait. Others have found real problems, a tight, difficult draw, a prominent large vein running the length of the wrapper, and, in at least one detailed review, wrapper threatening to unravel about two-thirds through the smoke with not enough flavor change across the thirds to justify the effort. This variance appears to run deeper than typical batch-to-batch differences, so buying a smaller quantity first, or letting a full box rest properly in a humidor for a year, is a reasonable approach several longtime fans specifically recommend before committing further.

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Flavor progression:

1. Opening: cedar dominates the initial light, with lots of spice building alongside pepper, cocoa, and a slight sweetness from the Sun Grown wrapper
2. Mid-smoke: the spice mellows into a great leather flavor with cocoa on the finish, wood and earth character sustaining throughout
3. Close: spice returns up front alongside leather and old wood, a long, slow-developing finish for anyone who takes their time with it

Key Features:

1. Brand: Arturo Fuente
2. Line: Chateau Series (Gran Reserva Sun Grown)
3. Founded: 1912, by Don Arturo Fuente
4. Factory: Tabacalera A. Fuente, Santiago, Dominican Republic
5. Country of Origin: Dominican Republic
6. Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sun Grown
7. Binder: Dominican Republic
8. Filler: Dominican Republic (long-filler)
9. Construction: Handmade, cedar sleeve presentation, black ribbon collar, Torpedo (figurado)
10. Vitola: Torpedo (Toro Gordo)
11. Size: 6 inches x 55 ring gauge
12. Strength: Medium to Full
13. Flavor Profile: Cedar, earth, coffee, leather, toasted nuts, pepper, cocoa, natural sweetness
14. Smoke Time: Approximately 90+ minutes
15. Box Count: 18 cigars
16. Price per Cigar: approximately $7.00