Tatuaje

The cigars are manufactured at the El Rey de los Habanos factory in Miami, Florida, and at Tabacalera Cubana S. A.

Tatuaje also has a Private Social Club called “Saints & Sinners” which was created in 2011.

[3] In the October, 2004, issue of Cigar Aficionado (CA), the Tatuaje Cabinet Especiales was given a rating of 90.

The Cabinet range uses a Corojo 99 viso wrapper, although those chosen for the Especiales are lighter in color.

The wrapper used is a Nicaraguan viso, except for the J21, which uses a ligero leaf, and the Regios Reserva, which uses Connecticut Broadleaf.

The cigars sport a second band, black with Reserva and the frontmark in gold lettering.

A Nicaraguan long-filler puro, blended by Pepin to resemble the flavor profile of the medium-bodied Havana cigars of his youth.

The black-banded Private Reserve were originally a limited-production blend for Pete Johnson and those he chose to give them to.

The band is tri-colored, with red, white and blue stripes, and each cigar is foil wrapped from the head to the midsection, similar to the old Cuban style of foil-wrapped figurados.

[7] Medium bodied, it is a Nicaraguan puro, and uses the same filler blend as the Havana VI, and is made at TACUBA in Estelí, Nicaragua.

Although Pepin Garcia is usually associated with Mr. Johnson's cigars, he was not involved in the creation or production of this small line.

Tatuaje Cabinet band
Scan by David Diaz
Tatuaje Reserva J21 band
Scan by David Diaz
Tatuaje RC233 & RC184 (photo by Rufus Shaw)
Scan by David Diaz
Scan by David Diaz
Scan by David Diaz
Scan by David Diaz
Tatauje La Maravilla, El Cohete and Bombazos (photo by Rufus Shaw)