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Tatuaje Ships TAA 2017 Nationally

By Charlie Minato @charlieminato · On July 24, 2017
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A month after shipping the TAA 2017 to California retailers, Tatuaje is shipping the cigars to stores nationwide.

The company sent this year’s exclusive for the Tobacconists Association of America (TAA) retailers to California stores a bit early, in order to beat a more than doubling of the state’s tax on cigars which went into effect on July 1.

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As for the cigar, it’s the same as the Tatuaje TAA 2014, a 6 x 52 parejo with a covered foot. Like most of the rest of Tatuaje’s TAA releases, it’s based on the Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin and Barclay Rex, meaning a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and filler.

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TAA 2017 shipping to retailers today from Miami. @taaexclusive @tatuajecigars #taaexclusive #tatuajecigars

A post shared by Pete Johnson (@tatuajeinc) on Jul 24, 2017 at 11:17am PDT

The bands and boxes actually read 2014, though there’s at least two ways to tell the cigars apart. First, the boxes will have date stamps from 2017, secondly, there’s a small 17 located in one of the feathers on the left side of the headdress of the TAA logo.

MSRP is $11.95, up from the $11 per cigar for the 2014 version.

The TAA is a fairly small group of some of the country’s top tobacconists, about 80 retailers as well as 40 or so manufacturers. The association gathers annually to discuss issues facing the industry and retailers, as well as to have its annual trade show, a unique event that works on a group buying format in order to secure exclusive deals for these generally high-volume merchants.

In recent years, many of those manufacturers have made exclusive cigars for the organization.

Alec Bradley, Asylum, Crowned Heads, La Flor Dominicana, La Palina, My Father and Rocky Patel Premium Cigars have already shipped their TAA releases for 2017.

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Charlie Minato

Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I handle the editing of our written content, the majority of the technical aspects of the site and work with the rest of our staff on content management, business development and more. I’ve lived in most corners of the country and now entering my second stint in Dallas, Texas. I enjoy boxing, headphones, the Le Mans 24-hour, wearing sweatshirts year-round and gyros. echte liebe.

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