It’s said that the older you get, the more important each year becomes and therefore the more it should be celebrated. So seems the case with cigar retailer W. Curtis Draper in Washington, D.C. The store hasn’t been shy about celebrating its anniversaries, commissioning limited edition store exclusives to celebrate over the past few years, including several from Tatuaje. Pete Johnson’s Cabaiguan WCD 120 was an incredibly well received cigar when it was released in 2007, trumped only by the WCD 120 Redux in 2012. This year, Johnson returned with another creation for the store’s 127th anniversary, the Tatuaje WCD 127. The WCD 127 harkens back to another cigar that Johnson created for John Anderson and Matt Krim of W. Curtis Draper, a special size of the Seleccion de Cazador, or Brown Label, for Civil Cigar Lounge, the space owned by Anderson and Krim, as an exclusive release for their locker members. Johnson said that he “loves working with everyone at W. Curtis Draper,” adding that he is thrilled to be included on their short list of people making them cigars. The list of manufacturers who have made cigars for the store is fairly small: beyond Tatuaje’s releases, the store has received cigars ...
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