Aladino Fuma Noche Super Toro

Last year, JRE Tobacco Co.—a company that I think is best known for its medium-profile blends—announced that it was adding a full-bodied cigar to its portfolio.

That cigar is the Aladino Fuma Noche, offered in a single 6 1/4 x 54 vitola that the company calls a super toro. Fuma Noche, Spanish for night cigar or night smoke, would imply some dark tones. The wrapper is dark, though JRE has not disclosed either the seed varietalo or where it comes from. As with most—if not all- of the company’s other cigars, the binder and fillers are from Honduras, grown by the Eiroa family.

I don’t remember which cigars I reviewed last week, but upon spotting this in a humidor storing cigars for potential future redux reviews, I do remember that I found this cigar to be a rare miss from JRE Tobacco Co., a company that has so rarely missed during the last decade.

Here’s how I concluded my review in June 2024:

If I combined the best aspects of the first and third cigars, I think there’s an excellent start-to-finish experience. Unfortunately, none of the three cigars were really able to deliver a very good experience from start to finish. Most problematically, the cigars all had issues staying lit. The good news is that cigars are not the Olympics. We don’t have to wait four years to see if that perfect performance is possible. Perhaps the cigars just need some rest, perhaps the blend could benefit from a minor tweak that focuses on combustion, but for now, the Fuma Noche just seems like it’s one step away—maybe a few steps for the second cigar I smoked—from being right. When that happens, I expect the result is a cigar that is as good as just about any cigar on the market today.

This cigar is considered a limited production release, meaning that it wasn’t a one-and-done limited edition, but I don’t think retailers can places orders for it as if it were a regular production cigar. As of late 2025, some retailers show the cigar in stock, though I suspect those cigars are from future shipments and not the original batch like this particular cigar.

• Cigar Reviewed: Aladino Fuma Noche Super Toro
• Country of Origin: Honduras
• Factory: Fábrica de Puros Aladino at Las Lomas Jamastran
• Wrapper: Undisclosed
• Binder: Honduras
• Filler: Honduras
• Length: 6 1/4 Inches
• Ring Gauge: 54
• Shape: Round
• MSRP: $15 (Box of 16, $240)
• Release Date: March 2024
• Number of Cigars Released: Undisclosed
• Number of Cigars Smoked For Redux: 1

This band—and its combination of black, red and silver—has a sinister vibe to it. The red accents remind me of a redline tire and really help to add some dimension to the look. The wrapper is a muted milk chocolate color with lots of visible veins. They are pretty thin, but the thickest veins—which there are many of—are almost always accompanied by some lighter color, giving the cigar some visual dimensions. While I don’t see much oil, the wrapper feels like parchment paper with just a touch of slickness. The aroma from the wrapper is medium-full and very acidic, with some saltiness creating a sweat-like sensation. The foot smells like Spanish cedar with a dash of ketchup. The cedar really makes itself known on the cold draw, where the sweet smell of the Spanish cedar has transformed into bubble gum-like sweetness. It’s a medium-full sensation, but there’s really not much beyond the sweetness. Of note, the draw is slightly open.

The Aladino Fuma Noche Super Toro lights up quickly and there’s plenty of smoke coming from the foot, but I wish there was more smoke in my mouth. It’s a medium-full profile with lots of woodiness accented by ketchup, rock salt, and earth on the finish. About an inch, there’s a flavor that reminds me of drinking milk out of a cereal bowl, it’s joined by damp earth and some woods. There’s a red apple note that hits the palate for a second or two after each puff, but it disappears quickly and is the only real sign of sweetness. Retrohales provide a thicker-tasting profile that is led by lots of saltiness. Compared to when I’m not retrohaling, it’s interesting how the salt hits the palate in different places and different ways, joined by hearty woods and some tingling pepper. As it finishes, the tingling pepper becomes more pervasive as flavors of terroir and a milky creaminess emerge. Flavor is full—though noticeably thicker via a retrohale—body is medium-full, and strength is medium. Construction is fantastic.

As the second half of the cigar gets underway, the profile is getting bitter. It’s not a linear development; rather, it comes in spurts. Even when there’s not a bitter puff, each puff is slightly harsher than the first half. A generic woodiness leads leather, terroir and some spiciness, but for the 45 or so minutes of this section, there are surprisingly few other flavors. The finish provides some complexity as the saltiness—less dynamic than before—leads woods, wheat cracker, black pepper and minerals. Retrohales add some faint sweetness via a waffle batter and a soggy cereal that reminds me of the first third, joined by the woody mixture from the main flavor and some white pepper. The pepper and terroir outlast the other flavors, which include some added toastiness. As the second third comes to a close, two other noticeable changes emerge: a fairly uneven burn that requires correction and the nicotine ramping up to nearly full strength. Fortunately, the final third is not a progression of the second third’s flavor. The Aladino Fuma Noche Super Toro adds dry grass, creaminess and toastiness to the earthiness and wood flavors that were already there. With an inch-and-a-half, a thick saltiness adds itself, a reminder of how the cigar tasted earlier on. The finish is a bit basic, with sharp pepper, toastiness and saltiness, but not the enjoyable saltiness. Retrohales are completely different, thanks to a really sharp red pepper that sits atop a toasty wood flavor, reminiscent of a smoker that has cooled off after a cook. It’s contrasted on the finish by some creaminess, with just a hint of butterscotch sweetness before the black pepper and earth return to overwhelm things. Flavor is full, body is medium-full, and strength is full. There’s another touch-up needed, this time for combustion, but otherwise, construction is fine. The open draw likely led to a quicker smoking pace, as I ended up finishing the cigar just two hours after I started.

Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.