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Review: Tatuaje TAA 2012

As we wrote in March and again in August, the Tobacconists Association of America held its annual convention, which took place March 25-29 in Los Cabos, Mexico. While that in of itself is not something to get overly excited about, this was also the time when Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars took orders for one of [...]

IPCPR 2012: Tatuaje & L’Atelier Imports

Pete Johnson sat down with halfwheel and talked a lot, and about all sorts of things—including the upcoming 10 year anniversary of Tatuaje. He also talked about his new company, L’Atelier Imports, which made its national debut at IPCPR 2012 after a bit of a preview in the form of Surrogates at New Havana Cigars [...]

Weekly News (August 20, 2012)

Editor’s Note: At some point, there will be news. I promise. Until then, the cigar industry is content on shipping the releases shown off at IPCPR, which for now means—quiet. Tatuaje TAA 2012 — Details here. Room 101 Some Ol Bullshit — More coming via Matt Booth. Davidoff Aniversario Colorado Claro No. 3 — Still [...]

News: Tatuaje TAA 2012 Slated for September

Pete Johnson is preparing the second release of his popular exclusive release for the Tobacconists Association of America, the Tatuaje TAA 2012. Last year, Johnson released the TAA 2011 based off the popular Pork Tenderloin and subsequent Barclay Rex. Johnson took to Twitter to field questions about what size people wanted: And eventually settled on 6 [...]

Weekly News (May 7, 2012)

Editor’s Note: As opposed to commentary, some random notes from halfwheel. Reviews have been consistently going up later in the day, we apologize and hope to change that. Some may have noticed an increase in news over the past few months, that’s here to stay and will likely continue to increase in the coming months, [...]

Weekly News (March 26, 2012)

Editor’s Note: Today is a slightly different note. Legendary sports historian Bert Sugar passed away yesterday at 75. Bert was a noted boxing historian and as a fan of boxing, his insight and memory was remarkable. Bert was also a cigar smoker, a noted cigar smoker. Need proof? Every picture of him on the first [...]

News: Tatuaje TAA Returns in 2012

Pete Johnson of Havana Cellars/Tatuaje has confirmed that for the second year in a row, he will be making a cigar exclusive to the members of the Tobacconists Association of America. Johnson has yet to release many other details, other than that he will be taking orders at the annual convention, which takes place March [...]