The Opus X Tauros The Bull Maduro & Blanton's Single Barrel pairing demonstrates how the same Opus X vitola can tell entirely different stories depending on its companions. This Treasure & The Pour bundle features the commanding Tauros Maduro from Pairing 06—but with a different God of Fire and a different bourbon, creating a completely different ritual.
This bundle includes:
Opus X Heaven and Earth Tauros The Bull Maduro (6" × 62) — Full-bodied, dark chocolate, coffee, leather, earth, natural sweetness
God of Fire by Carlito Piramide — Medium-full to full, Cameroon wrapper, potent pepper, cedar, spice, coffee, aged 3+ years
Blanton's Single Barrel (750ml) — 93 proof, honey, vanilla, citrus, caramel, baking spices
The lead cigar is the Fuente Fuente Opus X Tauros The Bull Maduro—the same commanding 6" × 62 vitola that anchored the Booker's pairing, now explored through a different lens. The Dominican maduro wrapper delivers intensified dark chocolate, coffee, leather, and earth with that touch of natural sweetness. This is the same cigar, but everything around it shifts the experience.
The companion cigar is the God of Fire by Carlito Piramide—indisputably the boldest of all God of Fire cigars. Blended by Carlito Fuente himself with a Cameroon wrapper over Dominican binder and filler, it delivers a potent, peppery tang with a complex mix of subtle flavors, slight sweetness, cedar, spice, and coffee notes that develop across a medium-to-heavy body. Aged minimum three years post-roll, this is Carlito's personal statement on what God of Fire can be.
The spirit completing this bundle is Blanton's Single Barrel—the bourbon that created the entire single barrel category. In 1984, Master Distiller Elmer T. Lee changed whiskey forever by selecting individual barrels for bottling rather than blending. The result is honey, vanilla, citrus, caramel, and signature baking spices at 93 proof. Those collectible horse stopper toppers tell their own story, with collectors pursuing the complete set of letters spelling "BLANTON'S."
What defines this pairing is how different it feels from Pairing 06. Where Booker's matched the Tauros Maduro's power with power, Blanton's offers balance—honey and caramel softening the cigars' intensity, citrus and subtle rye spice lifting the finish. The God of Fire by Carlito's Cameroon wrapper adds pepper and cedar that complements the Opus X without competing. The Carlito's pepper meets the bourbon's baking spices. The cedar meets the vanilla. Same Opus X, completely different experience.
Signature Serve: Rocks glass neat or with a small cube.
The Opus X Tauros The Bull Maduro & Blanton's Single Barrel bundle is part of The Treasure & The Pour—a curated series pairing ultra-rare Opus X Heaven and Earth cigars with God of Fire companions and allocated spirits that match their rarity. Available exclusively at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.
