News: Pictures of Tatuaje Apocalypse Emerge

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On Tuesday afternoon, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje sent out two pictures of the new Tatuaje Apocalypse, the second edition of a store exclusive cigar for Smoke Inn in south Florida.   While the Tatuaje Apocalypse features the same color scheme as the original Anarchy, the colors have been reversed, with a black anarchist symbol on [...]

Weekly News (April 23, 2012)

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Editor’s Note: This week we added a new sponsor, Defeat Prop 29. For those of you that don’t know, Prop 29 is a ballot measure in California that would raise the taxes on cigars from its current 31.73% to 54.89% of the wholesale prices. Prop 29 goes to vote on June 5, 2012 and you [...]

News: Smoke Inn Confirms Second Anarchy Release, Tatuaje Apocolapyse

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For the past few weeks, rumors of a second release of the Tatuaje Anarchy have been floating around. Today, a newly relaunched website contained information about a December 11, 2012 release. The website has a brief description: In early 2010, sightings from around the world began surfacing of riots and mob violence as news of [...]

Review: Tatuaje Anarchy (Prerelease) (Face-Off)

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In early 2010 the hype drums started rumbling about an exclusive Tatuaje cigar dubbed Anarchy. No details were given about who was behind the project, but what was known was that it wasn’t Pete Johnson himself behind the marketing of the project; he was only part of the blending process. It was most likely a store owner celebrating an anniversary but that was all we knew. Well less than 2 weeks ago that mystery was solved….

Weekly News (November 29, 2010)

The Tatuaje Anarchy went on pre-order at Smoke Inn this past Friday, orders should start arriving around December 10th. Alec Bradley gave out more information regarding their upcoming New York line. Cusano has taken over U.S. distribution for Heavenly Cigars. Toraño has filed opposition to MATASA/SAG Import’s Quesada Tributo name. You can read more about [...]

Weekly News (November 22, 2010)

It’s been a quietly busy week. The big news, the Tatuaje Anarchy launched. It’s a pigtailed Figurado that measures a 6 1/8 x 48-52 in fifteen count boxes around $150 from Smoke Inn. Brian Hewitt had some updates on the other Tatuaje projects including the Monster Series and Saints & Sinners. Brian also dug up [...]

News: Tatuaje Anarchy

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I promise… I didn’t see anything. Except for the pictures and the trademark filings. The Tatuaje Anarchy is set to be the next exclusive Tatuaje, unless of course Pete releases something between now and December 10th. The cigars will be available for pre-order next Friday, November 28th, i.e. Black Friday. They will be released December [...]

Weekly News (November 1, 2010)

Hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween weekends. Instead of candy, I had Padrón weekend. The annual release of the Oliva Serie V Maduro hit stores this past week. The Rocky Patel Valedor which is a B&M only stick that was made for the NRA also hit stores. A special Opus X Scorpion was released at Casa [...]

News: Trademarks 2010

Don’t worry Frank Herrera… I’m not going to become a trademark attorney anytime soon. I did however get bored last night (4 AMish) and decided that the cure to said boredom was to do none other than go through cigar trademarks… go figure. Trademark searches are awesome for finding out things, like that Smoke Inn [...]

Weekly News (September 6, 2010)

I guess my excuse for this being late is that it’s Labor Day, so I took some time off. The big news of the week was out of Santiago, DR (or wherever Guillermo León was at the time), my beloved La Aurora 107 Lanceros will be shipping boxes of twenty-one on October 7, 2010 (10/7) [...]