A Brief Cigar Review - Arturo Fuente Rosado Magnum R

The Rosado from Fuente is one of the newer offerings by the cigar family. It is more of a mellow-medium body smoke with a unique wrapper that is 10 year old sun grown. It is the same tobacco leaf that Fuente uses on it's other sun grown cigars, except it is from a lower priming. This give is a softer feel, and less of a dry taste that sun grown leaf tends to give.

Wrapper: Ecuadoran Sungrown Sumatra
Binder: Dominican Republic
Filler: Dominican Republic
Size: 5 x 52
MSRP: $7  

While cigar shopping for a Christmas present, I had to pick up a couple sticks for myself of course. One was the Fuente Rosado, which I have smoked a few previously and quite enjoyed. The wrapper has a reddish brown hue with fine veins. The wrapper itself is soft to the touch. The feel of the cigar is not very firm, yet not squishy. After a punch cut, the pre-light draw has a little bit of cedar and sweetness, while the scent of the cigar is that of cocoa and barnyard.

Right off the bat, the Rosado has a lot of sweetness to it. I almost forgot that I have described the Rosado to many of my friends as, "the sweetest non-infused cigar out there." The profile has a large amount of cashew/nut flavors, some salted dark caramel, and slight mellow pepper. I also notice a faint creamy cocoa, like if you make chocolate milk without enough syrup. I do not pick up any earth or leather type notes.

 
The sweetness of the smoke is really unique, I would love to investigate further if this is caused by the filler leaf blend, or the lower priming (lower leaf on the tobacco plant) used in the sun-grown wrapper. Harvesting is done bottom to top, lower primings are taken off of tobacco plants first.

After the midway point, the flavors darken into more of a burnt caramel, blackened cashews, and cedar undertones. Still the earth notes including cedar are very faint. The smoke remains creamy, and salty, and sweet.

I have been pairing the Rosado Magnum with simple whiskey and coca-cola. It tends to do the job with almost every cigar, however, there are definitely better options. I should have went with something not as sweet, so the sweetness of the Rosado could shine even more. I can see it being paired well with coffee in the morning. 

I love the Fuente Rosado, it is a cigar that is well-balanced and everything about it works together. The Rosado produces an attractive solid white ash. It maintains a burn line that's almost perfect. The smoking time was about an hour and a half. I would love to see the Rosado in a smaller ring size like a long lancero, to get the wrapper flavor concentrated into the whole profile even more. Currently it is available in ring gauges of 52, 54, 56. 

The Rosado Magnum is a solid medium strength and body cigar. It is not going to knock anyone on their backside regardless of what time of day it is smoked. If you haven't smoked one yet, it is a cigar you can look forward to trying.

I rate the Arturo Fuente Rosado Magnum R  8.75/10