A Parisian retailer told Carlos "Carlito" Fuente Jr. in the 1980s that he wasn't a real cigar maker, just someone who assembled tobaccos from elsewhere. The comment stuck with him, and he traced the insult to its root: conventional wisdom held that the Dominican Republic couldn't grow quality wrapper leaf, so Fuente had no choice but to source it from other countries like everyone else. He set out to prove that wisdom wrong, planting Cuban seed Corojo tobacco on a plantation in the Bonao region he named Chateau de la Fuente. In 1995 the first Fuente Fuente OpusX cigars went on sale, the first true Dominican puro ever made, and the buzz was immediate enough that Fuente initially limited sales to select retailers east of the Mississippi, with store owners capping purchases at two cigars per customer. The wrapper, binder, and filler are all grown at Chateau de la Fuente, a dark oily Corojo Cuban seed wrapper over Dominican binder and filler that blends four or five different tobaccos, with most of the filler leaves pulled from the top of the plant for power and body. The wrapper leaf is never sold to other companies and any unused tobacco from the farm is destroyed, which keeps the blend entirely exclusive to Fuente's own lines. Full in body. Made at Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia in the Dominican Republic.

In the years leading up to Arturo Fuente's 100th anniversary, a fire tore through one of the family's Dominican Republic warehouses, destroying thousands of bales of tobacco that had been aging for decades, including some of the precious OpusX wrapper leaf. Watching the smoke rise, the family found a phrase from the world of aged spirits fitting the loss: angel's share, the portion of liquor that evaporates from the barrel during aging, given up to nothing in particular. Released in 2013 to mark the start of the company's second century, Angel's Share became Carlos Fuente Jr.'s answer to smokers who wanted the OpusX experience without the strength that has always defined the standard line. The wrapper is still Dominican, still grown at Chateau de la Fuente, but pulled from the middle priming of the plant rather than the top, a leaf that sees less sun and carries noticeably less power. Binder and filler are Dominican as well, keeping the puro construction intact. Full in body, though softer than the standard OpusX. Made at Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia in the Dominican Republic.

Oro Oscuro takes the standard OpusX formula and pushes it further into the shadows. Carlos Fuente Jr. hand selects a specific Rosado Oro Oscuro wrapper leaf from the Chateau de la Fuente fields, then subjects it to an extended fermentation and resting period well beyond what the standard OpusX wrapper undergoes, deepening the color into a dark chocolate maduro and concentrating the character underneath. It first appeared quietly at Fuente retailers in late 2015 as a small batch release, catching much of the trade by surprise, and has remained one of the most sought-after entries in the OpusX portfolio since. The wrapper, binder, and filler are all Dominican, grown at Chateau de la Fuente, a full puro construction like the rest of the OpusX line. Full in body, more intensely so than the standard release. Made at Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia in the Dominican Republic.