For 2015, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars/Havana Cellars announced that he would be creating just five cigars as store exclusives, all of which would be banded under the Tatuaje Exclusive Series header, which has included Tatuaje’s TAA releases as well as numerous other single-store releases and smaller projects. The first of this year’s releases, the Tatuaje Drinking Age made for the 21st anniversary of Anthony’s Cigar Emporium in Tucson, Ariz., debuted in late April. The second release, the Tatuaje The Rumbo, came out just a few weeks later as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the Club Humidor chain in San Antonio, Texas. The name comes from owners Keith and Tiffany Rumbo, and together they own five stores throughout the city. The cigar is one that should be familiar to fans of Tatuaje, at least by its description: a 7 5/8 x 49 double corona with an Ecuadorian habano wrapper that also covers the foot, with Nicaraguan binder and filler underneath. If that sounds like another popular Tatuaje release, it should, as Johnson told halfwheel that the wrapper is the same as what’s used on the Tatuaje Cojonu, a higher priming than what it used on the Tatuaje Brown Label ...
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