Like many people in the cigar industry, Manny Iriarte left his home in Cuba and settled in Miami.
This year, his company is using that journey as the inspiration for a new collection, aptly called Havana – Miami: Celebration of Freedom. It will include four different Elie Bleu accessories, each offered in multiple colorways, along with one new cigar.
The flagship offering is The OpusX Society / Elie Bleu Havana – Miami: Celebration of Freedom Humidor. It’s a tabletop cabinet humidor that is said to be an all-new design for Elie Bleu, the French accessory company best known for its humidors.
Inside each of the humidors will be 100 Fuente Fuente OpusX La Edición de la Sociedad cigars in a new 6 1/2 x 50 toro vitola. For context, that’s the cigar that was released in 2024, currently only offered in a 6 1/4 x 49 vitola.
There will be five different colors of the humidor—black, blue, green, red and yellow—each limited to five numbered pieces per color, for a total of 25 colors.
The OpusX Society is a collaborative project between Manny Iriarte Enterprises and Arturo Fuente. During the last decade-plus, Iriarte has designed many projects for Fuente, including some of its collaborations with the watch brand Hublot.
For these releases, The OpusX Society is once again partnering with Rëyns International, best known as the American distributor of Elie Bleu. Rëyns will sell all of these items. The company says that it will announce MSRPs for each item at the 2026 PCA Convention & Trade Show, which takes place April 18-20.
As with many Elie Bleu collections, there will also be new colorways of handmade porcelain ashtrays that are produced in Limoges, France. There will be three colors—blue, red and yellow—each limited to 12 numbered pieces per color. Each ashtray has four cigar holders.
Those same three colors will be used for new colorways of the Elie Bleu EBC-4 cutter, a double guillotine model that can cut cigars up to 60-ring gauge, as well as the J-15, a single flame torch lighter. Neither model is new; both will be limited to 155 per color.
“It’s been more than 12 years since Carlitos Fuente Jr and I were talking and thinking about the price that an immigrant has to pay to seek freedom and leave family members behind,” said Iriarte in a press release. “He is also an inspiration because, even though he wasn’t born in Cuba, he is more Cuban than many native Cubans.”
Rëyns International tells halfwheel the items are expected to ship to retailers in June.
I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. Previously, I started TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors blogs of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry since 2010, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. Beyond writing, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff from weighing cigars to coordinating the tech. Outside of work, I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.