Arturo Fuente Don Carlos No. 2

Arturo Fuente Don Carlos No. 2 is a medium-to-full 5.875 x 55 Figurado handmade in the Dominican Republic. Named for Carlos Fuente Sr., Don Carlos is one of Fuente’s prestige Cameroon-wrapped lines. The company reserves particularly mature Dominican tobaccos for the blend, creating a cigar valued more for layered refinement than sheer power.

This expression uses a select African Cameroon wrapper over rare, vintage Dominican binder and filler tobaccos, with Fuente noting tobaccos aged as long as ten years. Its documented flavor direction includes cedar, chestnut, cocoa, almond, sweet tobacco and measured pepper. Don Carlos was blended in honor of Fuente patriarch Carlos Fuente Sr. and is built around unusually mature tobacco reserves. No. 2 is the famous tapered Don Carlos format, measuring 5.875 inches with a body that opens from roughly 44 to 55 ring gauge.

The No. 2 has a long critical history of its own, including a No. 4 ranking in Cigar Aficionado’s 2004 Top 25, which helped establish the tapered format as one of the best-known regular Don Carlos sizes. For an online catalogue, the exact dimensions, wrapper direction and Fuente family context make this SKU easy to compare with the other Arturo Fuente expressions in the range.