Elie Bleu Shipping OpusX Angel’s Share Stairway to Heaven Humidor

Tomorrow, Rëyns International will begin shipping the new Elie Bleu OpusX Angel’s Share Stairway to Heaven Humidors.

Previewed earlier this year, the new humidors are the latest collaboration between Elie Bleu, the French humidor maker, and Arturo Fuente. For this release, the two companies have created a pair of humidors—they are identical other than their outside color schemes—centered around the OpusX Angel’s Share brand.

The humidors are made by Elie Bleu at its workshop in Paris. They measure 9.88 inches x 19.94 x 6.14 and are offered in either natural or red sycamore woods. The humidors feature many of the standard Elie Bleu features and is designed to be used with two Boveda 320-gram humidity packs, which are held in place by a magnetically attached wooden cover that goes inside the lid.

Each humidor comes with 60 of the Fuente Fuente OpusX Angel’s Share Stairway to Heaven, a 7 1/4 x 56 figurado. Rëyns International, the U.S. distributor for Elie Bleu, says that this vitola will never be released outside of these humidors.

However, if you purchase a humidor, you will have the option to purchase 120 more cigars, divided into two 60-cigar shipments, over the next two years.

Each humidor has an MSRP of $17,500.

Arturo Fuente introduced the Angel’s Share line in 2012, an extension to the OpusX brand. The cigars are known for a lighter tobacco that is taken from the middle of the plant, leaves that Arturo Fuente says are sweeter.

The name is a commonly used term in the liquor industry; it refers to the amount of liquid that is lost in the barrel as the spirits age. Over time, distillers will lose a small amount of liquid each year due to evaporation. Angel’s share was coined in Scotland, where people would say that the liquid was being sent to the heavens so that angels could enjoy the whisky.

Just 92 humidors of each color scheme are being produced, a reference to 1992, the year that Fuente planted the crop of tobacco that would become the first commercial release of Fuente Fuente OpusX.

Beyond the humidors, Elie Bleu also created a handful of smaller accessories that use the Angel’s Share design. Those items have already shipped to stores.

• Elie Bleu Fuente OpusX Angel’s Share Cigar Scissors — $600
• Elie Bleu Fuente OpusX Angel’s Share EBC-4 Cutter — $310
• Elie Bleu Fuente OpusX Angel’s Share J-14 Lighter — $600
• Elie Bleu Fuente OpusX Angel’s Share J-15 Lighter — $310
• Elie Bleu Fuente OpusX Angel’s Share Limoges Porcelain Ashtray — $1,400

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.