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News: Exclusive Tatuaje 10th Anniversary Planned for TAA Members

The third release of the Tatuaje TAA Exclusive Series will have to wait for another year. Pete Johnson told halfwheel that the Exclusive Series release that has been offered to members of the Tobacconist’s Association of America the prior two years will not happen in 2013. Instead, TAA members will be offered a special size [...]

Review: Tatuaje Mission Pipe Shop CQ1 Belicoso

Today our review will focus on another one of Pete Johnson’s single store Exclusive Series releases called the Mission Pipe Shop CQ1, which was made for Mission Pipe Shop in San Jose, Calif. Back in November of 2012 we had the story about its official unveiling although some details had been floating around the Saints [...]

News: Tatuaje Exclusive Mission Pipe CQ1 Belicoso Slated for January 2013

For months, Pete Johnson has privately talked about a Tatuaje Exclusive involving Ecuadorian Sumatra; today it became a matter of public record. While the project was announced by Johnson to his Saints & Sinners fan club and forum back in September, it has remained relatively quiet until today. Mission Pipe Shop of San Jose, Cal. [...]

News: Tatuaje TAA 2012 Slated for September

Pete Johnson is preparing the second release of his popular exclusive release for the Tobacconists Association of America, the Tatuaje TAA 2012. Last year, Johnson released the TAA 2011 based off the popular Pork Tenderloin and subsequent Barclay Rex. Johnson took to Twitter to field questions about what size people wanted: And eventually settled on 6 [...]

News: Tatuaje Tobacco Plaza DD Heads to Tobacco Plaza in March

It’s been no secret that Tobacco Plaza of Great Neck, NY was slated to get a Tatuaje retailer exclusive some time early in 2012. Now, with less than 47 days before the first release, the details have largely come together on Pete Johnson’s project for Danny Ditkowich’s store. The cigar will be known as the [...]

Review: Tatuaje Tattoo

For those of you that don’t know…

For one of the first times that I can remember, a Limited Edition Tatuaje cigar was released with almost NO (as in, about 12 hours) notice or warning (for most people)…

Review: Tatuaje Federal Cigar 90th Anniversary 109 Rosado

Today we will be taking a look at the Tatuaje Federal Cigar 109 Rosado. Yesterday we posted the review of the Reserva with the Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper that was limited to 100 boxes of 25. At the time of this review the Reserva is completely SOLD OUT, but don’t fret, the Rosado IS AVAILABLE and [...]

Review: Tatuaje Federal Cigar 90th Anniversary 109 Reserva

A year ago I attended a Tatuaje event at Federal Cigar and spoke with Rick Gadway, owner of Federal Cigar, about an Exclusive Series Pete Johnson was going to do for his store. Rick explained to me that he requested a 109 vitola for his stores 90th Anniversary that was coming up, but didn’t really get [...]

Review: Tatuaje Barclay Rex 100th Anniversary (Prerelease)

If you are a Tatuaje fan, you will be excited to know that Pete Johnson has honored a Cigar shop in New York City called Barclay Rex by making a cigar to celebrate their 100th Anniversary in business. 100 years in the cigar business…That’s a beautiful thing. Here is a little info on Barclay Rex [...]

Weekly News (November 1, 2010)

Hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween weekends. Instead of candy, I had Padrón weekend. The annual release of the Oliva Serie V Maduro hit stores this past week. The Rocky Patel Valedor which is a B&M only stick that was made for the NRA also hit stores. A special Opus X Scorpion was released at Casa [...]