News: Tatuaje Monster Series Jason for 2013

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Earlier today Pete Johnson indicated that the sixth rendition of his annual Monster Series release would be based off of the character of Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th series. Further comments on the photo below suggested that it would be a Double Corona, although Johnson indicated further details would be forthcoming. It was [...]

Review: Tatuaje The Mummy

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It is October again — and that means just one thing to Tatuaje fans — the annual release of the Monster Series. For five years running, Pete Johnson has released a different cigar based on monster characters in classic and recent films. We detailed the details in our story about The Mummy release: As mentioned in our [...]

Weekly News (October 1, 2012)

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 Editor’s Note: Welcome to October, one of the funnest months in the industry. There are a lot of limited editions from the biggest names in the business, as well as a few of the remaining IPCPR releases that will trickle out this month. Also, some fun things at halfwheel. Tatuaje Monster Series Unlucky 13 Retailers [...]

News: Tatuaje ‘Unlucky 13′ Retailers Announced

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Tatuaje Cigars has released the list of the Unlucky 13 retailers who will be getting the primary allocation of this year’s Monster Series cigar, The Mummy. The list, which was previously made available only to members of Tatuaje’s Saints & Sinners Club earlier in the weekend, was posted on Pete Johnson’s Facebook page on Monday afternoon: [...]

IPCPR 2012: Tatuaje & L’Atelier Imports

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Pete Johnson sat down with halfwheel and talked a lot, and about all sorts of things—including the upcoming 10 year anniversary of Tatuaje. He also talked about his new company, L’Atelier Imports, which made its national debut at IPCPR 2012 after a bit of a preview in the form of Surrogates at New Havana Cigars [...]

Weekly News (February 6, 2012)

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Editor’s Note: This one is pretty simple. There are some technical issues plaguing the site currently. We know of two somewhat major issues. First and foremost, commenting from a computer seems to not be working, although commenting from mobile devices seems to be working fine. We are trying to resolve this issue and think we [...]

News: Tatuaje Monster Series to be Rereleased in Smaller Sizes

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Earlier this morning on Smoke Inn’s Kiss My Ash Radio show, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje announced that he would be releasing the Monster Series in smaller vitolas. The popular Monster Series has previously been regulated to larger sizes, hence the Monster moniker. During the show, which will be available online later this week, Pete said [...]

Review: Tatuaje “The Wolfman” (Prerelease)

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For those of you that don’t know… Released right before Halloween every year, the Tatuaje Monster Series is one of the most anticipated cigars to hit the market each year. Each year, a different classic movie monster is immortalized with a different blend. The box and cigar are supposed to be representative of the Monster [...]

Weekly News (October 3, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: The biggest news of the week was the Friday announcement from the attorneys for Pepín García indicating the legal matter of El Rey de los Habanos had been settled. Our original story contained an error referring to the separate matter of Tabacalera Cubanas as “lawsuit” instead of “dissolution.” (To be clear both companies [...]

Weekly News (July 4, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: Two weeks away from the IPCPR show and another quiet week. There’s a lot of chatter and I imagine this week will be a busy one, but, don’t expect a lot of releases over the next few weeks. Anyways, a relatively brief and concentrated news on the 4th of July. — el nino [...]