July 8, 2024 Brooks Whittington News

L’Atelier Côte d’Or La Tâche ’18 Begins Shipping Nationwide

Tatuaje has begun the nationwide shipping of the new L’Atelier Côte d’Or La Tâche ’18.

It is a 6 x 46 corona gorda made with an Ecuadorian Sancti Spiritus wrapper—the same varietal that is used on the L’Atelier Selection Spéciale—covering a binder and filler blend that is grown in Nicaragua. In addition, the filler includes pelo de oro, which is Spanish for golden hair, a type of tobacco that produces a low yield compared to other varieties and has been banned in Cuba due to its propensity to mold.

Each cigar has an MSRP of $16 and production is limited to 1,000 boxes of 10, for a total of 10,000 cigars. The Côte d’Or La Tâche ’18 is named after the region in eastern France that is known for producing pinot noir grapes and was rolled at the My Father Cigars S.A. factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.

The original L’Atelier Côte d’Or La Tâche was released in early 2016; that cigar was a 5 1/2 x 50 robusto that used the same basic blend components.

Last month, California-based Napa Cigars had a soft launch of the L’Atelier Côte d’Or La Tâche ’18 and sold the first 50 boxes out of the 1,000-box production run. Pete Johnson, founder of Tatuaje, told halfwheel that other than an added band for Napa Cigar, the cigars are the same as the ones that are shipping to retailers.

L'Atelier Imports L’Atelier Côte d’Or La Tâche '18 My Father Cigars S.A.
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Brooks Whittington

I have worn many hats in my life up to this point: I started out as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, then transitioned to photographing weddings—both internationally and in the U.S.—for more than a decade. After realizing that there was a need for a cigar website containing better photographs and more in-depth information about each release, I founded my first cigar blog, SmokingStogie, in 2008. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars, and it was one of the predecessors to halfwheel, which I co-founded.

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