Tatuaje Schedules Surrogates Closing Time For April
A new release for the L’Atelier’s Surrogates line will be on store shelves next month.
Surrogates Closing Time is a 6 x 50 toro priced at $10 each and packaged in 20-count boxes. The name refers to the fact that it has become a favorite last cigar that Dan Welsh, co-founder of L’Atelier Imports, smokes before retiring to bed. L’Atelier Imports was once a separate company that sold the Surrogates brand, it is now part of Tatuaje.
Blend-wise, the Closing Time is made with a Nicaraguan corojo 99 shade-grown wrapper covering an internal mix of tobaccos sourced from Nicaragua, Mexico and the U.S. The cigars are being made at the My Father Cigars S.A. factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.
In a conversation during the 2024 PCA Convention & Trade Show, Pete Johnson, founder of Tatuaje, told halfwheel that boxes of the Surrogates Closing Time are scheduled to ship to retailers in late April.
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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