2021年，富恩特公司为了庆祝巨著X品牌创建25周年（实际是2020年），发布了绿色版本的巨著。有的人称其是绿色巨著，也有人称其是巨著25。但官方名称是巨著X25周年致敬（Fuente Fuente OpusX 25 Aniversario El Tributo）。

当时，绿色巨著装在两款艾迪布鲁（Elie Bleu）的雪茄保湿盒里一起出售，只有购买雪茄保湿盒，才有机会买到这些绿色版本的巨著。一款是台式雪茄盒，装了25支绿色巨著，售价9250美元。一个是体型较大的奢华的双门橱柜雪茄盒，装了150支绿色巨著，售价7万美元。

几年后，富恩特公司的当家人小卡洛斯·富恩特（Carlos Fuente Jr.）决定推出一款25支装的普通木盒，让大多数消费者可以买到这款绿色巨著。虽然这款产品还是纪念巨著品牌成立25周年，但同时也是向老卡洛斯致敬，因此命名为 El Tributo。

每个包装盒上都印着2016年老卡洛斯去世时，小卡洛斯写给父亲的献词。

绿色版本的巨著是丘吉尔型号，50环径，7英寸。烟标是绿色，副标印着巨著25的字样。雪茄售价是每支50美元，在多米尼加共和国的富恩特雪茄厂卷制，完全由多米尼加烟叶卷制。

雪茄的茄衣是在富恩特城堡庄园种植的，和其他巨著X的茄衣烟叶不太一样。这款茄衣是最初的科罗霍种子和富恩特家族开发的另一款种子的杂交品种。茄衣烟叶颜色更浅，不是从烟草植株顶部挑选的叶片。

在口味力度方面，绿色版本的巨著不如红色标签的巨著，但是比20周年的蓝色标签的巨著要浓郁。

预计美国境内的零售商很快可以收到这款普通木盒装的绿色版本巨著。

富恩特公司同时还发布了巨著X家族25周年（OpusX La Familia 25 Years），这是一款完美型号的雪茄，也有绿色烟标。根据富恩特的介绍，这款完美型号的雪茄比El Tributo的力度要强，茄衣颜色也会更深。

Some are calling it the Opus Green. Others refer to it as Opus 25, but the official name is the Fuente Fuente OpusX 25 Aniversario El Tributo, and it’s shipping to retailers, albeit in small allotments. At one time, you could only get these cigars if you bought an expensive Elie Bleu humidor. Now, they’re available on their own. Each Churchill-sized smoke is adorned in an OpusX band rendered in green, as well as a second band that reads “Opus 25.”

When the cigar was first announced in 2021, it was to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the OpusX brand (which was actually the previous year). The cigars were only offered in two Elie Bleu humidors: a desktop model with 25 cigars that had a retail price of $9,250, and a large, lavishly detailed double-door cabinet with 150 cigars. This package retailed for $70,000. 

After giving the humidors a few years to sell, company patriarch Carlos Fuente Jr. has made the cigars more accessible, putting them in wooden, 25-count boxes. He’s also changed the theme a bit. While they still celebrate the brand’s 25th anniversary, they now also pay tribute to his father, hence the name El Tributo. Every lid is decorated with a dedication penned by Fuente to his dad, Carlos Fuente Sr., who died in 2016. 

El Tributo comes in boxes of 25, measures 7 inches by 50 ring gauge and has a suggested retail price of $50 apiece. It’s rolled in the Dominican Republic at Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia., and is made entirely from Dominican tobacco. Like all OpusX cigars, the wrapper was grown at Chateau de la Fuente, only this isn’t the same wrapper found on other OpusX cigars. It’s a hybrid cross between the original Corojo-seed wrapper and another seed that Fuente developed. It’s also not a top-priming wrapper, culled from the midsection of the tobacco plant, so it’s lighter in color.

In terms of strength, Fuente describes the Tributo as being not as strong as the regular line (red label), but stronger than the 20th Anniversary series (blue label). 

Initial shipments went out a few weeks ago, and the company tells Cigar Aficionado that another shipment is expected next week, so retailers who have not received their Tributos will be getting them soon.

In further celebration of the brand’s major milestone, Fuente also released the OpusX La Familia 25 Years, a perfecto-shaped cigar that comes in the green band as well. According to Fuente, these perfectos are a bit stronger than El Tributo, with a slightly darker wrapper.