Tatuaje’s Lomo de Cerdo Heads to Stores on Monday

Lomo de Cerdo, one of Tatuaje’s most talked about new cigars from the 2022 PCA Convention & Trade Show is set to begin shipping to stores on Monday.

The cigar gives a new spin to one of Tatuaje’s most sought-after limited editions, as it based on the Pork Tenderloin, which came out in 2010, but this new cigars uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper instead of the Connecticut broadleaf wrapper found on the original cigar. As such, the Lomo de Cerdo—which is Spanish for pork loin—wears a band that says Tuxtla as a nod to the city where the vast majority of Mexican San Andrés tobacco is grown. It is a band that has been used on the three other cigars in Tatuaje’s Tuxtla Series, which debuted in June 2022 and includes the Avion ’13 Tuxtla, Tatuaje 7th Tuxtla and Tatuaje T110 Tuxtla.

Like the original Pork Tenderloin, the Lomo de Cerdo uses Nicaraguan tobacco for the binders and fillers. Also like the Pork Tenderloin, the Lomo de Cerdo is notable for its packaging, as the cigars come in 25-count bundles wrapped in butcher paper designed to look like what would be handed across the counter at the butcher shop.

The Tatuaje Lomo de Cerdo, a 5 1/8 x 52 robusto, is priced at $12 per cigar and $300 for a bundle of 25 cigars. They are produced by My Father Cigars S.A. at its factory in Estelí, Nicaragua. Pete Johnson said that production ended up being just north of 8,000 bundles of cigars, as when the cigar was announced, production wasn’t known as it would be determined by how many cigars were ordered.

While the bundled cigars are set to begin shipping, some consumers have already had the opportunity to smoke the Tatuaje Lomo de Cerdo, as it was included in Cigar Rights of America’s Spring 2023 Freedom Sampler, which was released in recent weeks. The cigars in that sampler did not wear the same bands, however, as they used the Tatuaje Limited bands, and they weren’t referred to as the Lomo de Cerdo, with Johnson calling them the Tatuaje Limited Robusto Especial.