If you have been to a recent event with Pete Johnson, you might have seen a new cigar with a red band. The cigar is the Tatuaje Tattoo, a new line from Johnson which is set to debut in May in the form of a 5 x 50 robusto. Three sizes will be added at the 2014 IPCPR trade show and convention in July: a 6 x 50 toro, a 6 1/8 x 52 torpedo and a 5 1/2 x 58 toro grande. The project emerged last month with hints that it would be priced lower than many of Tatuaje’s offerings. That will be the case as Johnson told halfwheel it will range from $5-6.50. The cigars are made at the Tabacalera Cubana (TACUBA) factory in Estelí, the first Nicaraguan factory used by José “Don Pepín” García before he and his production moved into My Father Cigars S.A. It’s not the first time of late Johnson has used the lesser talked-about García factory. El Suelo and Trocadéro, two value-priced brands under Johnson’s L’Atelier Imports introduced in 2012, are made at the factory as well. This is also not the first time Johnson has made a Tatuaje Tattoo. In 2007, Nicaraguan ...
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