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Redux: Cabaiguan WCD 120 REDUX

Most of Pete Johnson’s limited editions come with fanfare, but every once in a while the Tatuaje faithful seems to miss one. Such was the case with the 2007 release of the Cabaiguan WCD 120 for Washington D.C.-based W. Curtis Draper’s 120th anniversary. History almost repeated itself again five years later when the cigar was [...]

Review: Tatuaje Exclusive Series Federal Cigar 90th Anniversary 109 Redux

In 2011, Tatuaje released two separate blends to commemorate New Hampshire based Federal Cigar’s 90th anniversary: one with a Rosado wrapper and one with a Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro wrapper. Both releases were based off of the Cuban 109 vitola, a Double Robusto with a round cap and a favorite that is a favorite of Federal Cigar owner [...]

Review: Tatuaje Cohete (2013)

Back in 2006, Tatuaje released three of what has now become dozens of single store releases, one of which was the Cohete, Spanish  for rocket. Exclusively sold at Tower Pipes & Cigars in Sacramento, Calif., the 4 x 50 Petite Robusto was limited to 50 boxes of 25 cigars for the first release and 100 [...]

Review: Tatuaje Brown Label Civil Cigar Lounge

In 2003, a relatively unknown cigar called Tatuaje was released for the first time. The first cigars on the market from the new brand were named Seleccion de Cazador, adorned with a nondescript brown band and packaged in Cuban style boxes. The Brown Label, as it is now most commonly referred to, became the lynchpin [...]

Redux: Tatuaje Limited Series Mexican Experiment Robusto

On May 28, 2012, news began to circulate about a new Tatuaje Limited Series release dubbed the Mexican Experiment. Details were a bit sketchy at first, with the cigar first being noted as a 5 x 50 Robusto, then a retailer contradicted that by saying it was a box-pressed 5 x 52 Robusto. To further confuse things, reports of [...]

Redux: Tatuaje Avion 12

At the 2012 IPCPR trade show, Tatuaje introduced the newest version of its box-pressed Perfecto version of Fausto, Avion 12. It was the second year of the limited production cigar, which debuted the year prior alongside the Fausto. Both blends are based off of the non-commercial Tatuaje Thermonuclear, a cigar Pete Johnson created privately in 2005 and never formally [...]

Review: Tatuaje Anarchy Apocalypse

You’ve no doubt heard about the predictions for the end of the world that came and went in recent weeks – specifically the end of the Mayan calendar that had some people fearing the explosion of the planet on either December 21. While December 21st didn’t bring the end of the world, the hype surrounding the [...]

Review: Tatuaje Noella Reserva (2006)

In late 2006, Tatuaje shipped a few retailers limited amounts of boxes of a Maduro version of its Brown Label Corona, Noella Reserva. The wrapper was an ultra dark Ligero priming of the Habano Ecuador that was beginning to be used on the Brown Label in late 2006. Pete Johnson explained the wrapper difference and [...]

Redux: Tatuaje Black Label Tubo

Back in late 2009, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje released his first tubed cigar in two lines: Verocú and the famed Black Label Private Reserve. At the time, it was the fourth version of the Black Label to be released, although the number at last count now is ten total.  Here is what I said about the [...]

Review: Tatuaje HCS #1 Reserva

In late October, Pete Johnson introduced his newest Broadleaf-wrapped cigar, the Tatuaje HCS #1 Reserva for Holt’s. It is arguably the least-talked about Connecticut Broadleaf release for Havana Cellars this year, although the La Casita Criolla HCR makes a compelling case as well. We covered the details in a mid-October news story: Philadelphia-based Holt’s will [...]