Vintage 1960s Series Black Pink Signature

Vitola: Signature is a marketed figurado size name (6 x 46), not a standard vitola — mapped to the closest standard (Perfecto) with the marketed name kept in customVitola.

Backstory: Black Pink is the darker, more full-bodied companion to Arturo Fuente's Rare Pink (debuted 2020), a line of Hemingway-style figurados benefiting breast cancer research. Carlos 'Carlito' Fuente was inspired to support the cause by his daughter Liana, who lost both her grandmother and aunt to breast cancer. Proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (the original Rare Pink donated $13 per box).

Release: Unveiled at PCA 2025 and began shipping March 13, 2026. Initially exclusive to TAA (Tobacconists' Association of America) member stores — ~80 retailers / ~200 storefronts — for roughly six months. Produced in highly limited quantities (no specific production count disclosed).

Release: The Black Pink line debuted in four all-figurado vitolas, each shaped with vintage molds preserved from the Fuente family archives: Signature 6 x 46 (~$13.53), Work of Art 4 7/8 x 60 (~$14.08), Happy Ending 5 1/2 x 53 (~$16.12), and Black Panther 6 5/8 x 55 (~$22.72). Signature ships in 25-count boxes (~$338.25/box).

Tobacco: Wrapper is a dark Connecticut-grown Habano-seed maduro over Dominican long-filler. Binder is not explicitly disclosed; the figure here reflects the Fuente house Dominican binder and should be confirmed. Conflicting data: one retailer instead described the wrapper as Ecuadorian with Dominican + Nicaraguan fillers — the Connecticut-Habano / Dominican description is the more widely reported and is used as primary.

Color: The wrapper is described as a dark, smooth, oily and visually striking maduro — classified as Maduro; could arguably be Oscuro given the 'Black' branding. Confirm against the actual leaf if possible.

Fun Fact: The entire Black Pink range is figurado-only, a nod to the Fuente family's rolling expertise and its lineage in the Hemingway figurado tradition.

A Time for Chance

JFK, MLK, Love, Peace, Vietnam, the Stones, Joplin, Woodstock. The 1960s was a decade full of "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," when experimentation ran rampant and "Lucy was in the Sky with Diamonds." yet consciousness rose to the highest levels. People sought meaning, guardrails were burned, and pink flowers boomed. This era market a young Carlito Fuente for live, becoming an out-of-the-box artist who changed norms and set new standards in the cigar industry. With these lifelong reflections both in mind and soul, The ToyMaker created hs lastedgem Black Pink with the hope that it reminds us all that no matter how tough the times get...

Love Conquers All!