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Redux: Tatuaje NHC Selección Limitada Capa Especial

Almost one year ago, I wrote a review about the almost unknown Tatuaje NHC Capa Especial,  a then yet-to-be-released version of the popular single store blend sold by Dan Welsh over at New Havana Cigars with a Sumatra wrapper. In fact, I loved it so much, it made my the final Top Ten list for [...]

Review: Tatuaje Baby Face

Every Halloween, Tatuaje cigars releases their much anticipated Monster series. Each release is based on a Classic or newer monster, both in the size and the look of the cigar itself. For most stores, the smokes have huge waiting lists, and are instant sellouts when they actually arrive. In 2010, the monster release was dubbed “The [...]

Review: Tatuaje Mini Mum

The Mini Mum is part of Tatuaje’s new Little Monsters, a limited edition run based on Tatuaje’s popular Monster series. Pete Johnson’s Monster Series is an annual Halloween release that is unequivocally the most-anticipated domestic release currently made. We’ve documented the Little Monsters fairly extensively over the past six months, but in case you are unaware [...]

Review: Tatuaje Limited Series Mexican Experiment Robusto

News of the latest project from Tatuaje hit the internet on May 28 with confirmation that at least one retailer would be getting this new Tatuaje with a Mexican San Andrés wrapper. As the cigars started landing at various retailers, various reports about sizes and quantities made surfaced as well. The original report mentioned it [...]

Review: Tatuaje La Casita Criolla HCR

Just shy of a year from the debut of the La Casita Criolla, Pete Johnson announced that a new size would be joining the lineup, a 5 x 50 Robusto. In what is becoming a trend, the cigar was given a limited introductory release in a specific region, in this case, in the Southwestern part [...]

Review: Tatuaje Avion 12 (Prerelease)

At the 2011 IPCPR show, Tatuaje introduced the Avion, a limited production box-pressed Perfecto version of the Fausto blend. Each vitola is named for the year of its release, thus this year’s version will be dubbed the Avion 12. The blend for both the Fausto and the Avion is based off of the Tatuaje T110, (which in [...]

Review: Tatuaje Miami Tan FF

In November of 2009, Pete Johnson shipped Dan Welsh of New Havana Cigars fame a batch of 6 3/4 x 49 Torpedoes that were originally slated to be the Tatuaje Cojonu 2009, which measures at 6 3/4 x 48. The slightly more than 2,000 cigars were eventually labeled Tatuaje Miami FF starting the somewhat sporadic [...]

Review: Tatuaje Verocu No. 1 Lado Occidental

In July 2007, Pete Johnson released the first of the limited edition Verocu cigars, an extension of the Havana VI line introduced in late 2006. The Tatuaje Verocu No. 1 Lado Occidental, which translates into west side, was part of the first limited Verocu release, limited to retailers fittingly in the West coast. Alongside the No. [...]

Review: Tatuaje Limited Series Fausto FT114

Pete Johnson made no secret that his next size of Fausto, FT114, would debut under different livery prior to its national release. The thought was that it was going to debut at the fifth annual No Joke Smoke event in Hawaii that is put on as a collaboration between Shiroma’s Wine And More (SWAM), Havana [...]

Review: Tatuaje Cojonu 2012 Reserva (Prerelease)

Tomorrow, Pete Johnson will launch the Tatuaje Cojonu 2012 at Casa de Montecristo in Chicago. It will be the sixth iteration of one of the original Tatuaje series and the first time Johnson will use a book style packaging for any release. There are a total of three versions of the 2012 release (Capa Especial, [...]