Redux: Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin

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We are looking at one of the best Tatuaje releases of all time, the Pork Tenderloin. Big brother to the Porkchop, it is a blend that itself has spawned at least two more great cigars, including the legendary Tatuaje Barclay Rex 100th Anniversary and the Tatuaje TAA. I have been wanting to see how these [...]

Weekly News (March 21, 2011)

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It’s been a busy week to say the least, and not just in cigar news. Tons of new news, including a few that came out from the middle of nowhere. Wednesday was a hectic day with one of the most confusing days in regards to cigar news. After the jump, other news about Pete Johnson, [...]

News: Tatuaje Tattoo (Exclusive)

Edit: See Pete’s comment below. When the State of the Brand: Tatuaje was published in mid-January, the most intriguing story was by far a legal fight between Tatuaje and Nicaraguan Imports (i.e. Cuban Crafters) over the name “Tattoo.” For those that are even more incompetent than yours truly at Spanish, “tatuaje” is “tattoo” in Español. [...]

Weekly News (March 7, 2011)

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A week after Jerry Cruz proclaimed that the only one who did news was CA, and everyone else shouldn’t really try; Jerry did a bit of “advertising” for himself over at Stogie Review. This time it was two massive updates to the respective futures of E.P. Carrillo and Tatuaje. In addition, this week saw updates [...]

State of the Brand: Tatuaje

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It’s unlikely that there will be a day three installment of this one… but for now here is day two. Pete Johnson, owner of Tatuaje, has spent the past week in Nicaragua at Pepín’s factory finalizing blends for the summer. For those that shy away from the various forms of social media, but still love [...]

News: Tatuaje Launches “The Face”

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Today was the day… the all-new Tatuaje website launched as well as the official announcement for the newest addition to the “Monster” Series, “The Face” launched. In total, 21,658 cigars will be available for purchase divided up between 666 Dress Boxes containing 13 cigars and 1,300 plain boxes containing 10 cigars. The dress boxes will [...]

Review: Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin

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About a week ago, it was announced that Jose Agosto from Gloucester Street Cigars in Boston had a brand new Tatuaje Singe Store Limited Release. It is part of the Butcher Cut series, and is dubbed the Pork Tenderloin. Now, this limited release stuff is all old hat to Jose. He sold the (extremely limited) [...]

Review: Tatuaje Porkchop

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For those of you that don’t know… While perusing some of the boards, I found out that Pete Johnson of Tatuaje had released a very Limited stick to a good friend of his, Jose Agosto from Gloucester Street Cigars in Boston…Jose is the person who (along with Pete) came up with the idea of the [...]