To commemorate the 20th working relationship between My Father Cigars and Pete Johnson, My Father Cigars and Tatuaje have released a limited-edition premium cigar named La Union.
Jose “Pepin” Garcia and his children, Jaime and Janny, began making cigars in My Father Cigars’s Miami, Florida, cigar factory nearly 20 years ago. Their first private label client was Pete Johnson, founder of Tatuaje Cigars. It was in early 2003 when Johnson and Pepin first met at an event in Los Angeles, California. Immediately, Johnson knew Pein was the man that he wanted making his cigars. From that day onwards, the Garcia family and Johnson have worked closely together–blending, manufacturing, and distributing cigars throughout the world.
La Union is the product of this long relationship between the Garcias and Johnson. The logo for this new premium cigar features an artistic rendering of Pete Johnson shaking Jaime’s hand with Pepin blessing the union, representing the bond and commitment to family and hard work that the Garcias and Johnson have had since they first started making cigars together in 2003.
Here is an overview of the La Union Prominente Especial Black and Red Box:
- Each limited-edition box will come packed with 40 cigars–twenty blended by My Father for Tatuaje and the other twenty blended by Tatuaje for My Father. All cigars were blended and produced at My Father Cigars S.A. in Estelí, Nicaragua.
- The cigars measure 7 1/4 x 50 and are finished with a traditional Cuban 109-style head. It features a Nicaraguan shade-grown Corojo 99 wrapper for the black box and an Ecuadoran Sumatra for the red box
- The cigars blended by Pete Johnson will have a covered foot; it features an Ecuador Habano for the black box and Connecticut USA Broadleaf for the red box
- The cigars blended by the Garcias will have an open-foot
- All of the tobacco used for binders and fillers is grown by the Garcia family, including the famed Pelo de Oro, which has been grown by the family since 2008
- These are both full-strength cigars with a suggested retail price of $60 per cigar before applicable taxes
Each box will be individually numbered. The black boxes will range from 1 to 1,500; the red boxes will range from 1,501 to 3,000. There will be 1,500 boxes of each color, with 1,200 allocated to the U.S. and 300 for international accounts. The black box will be released in early 2024; the red box will be released later. As a bonus, each box will have a Xikar Xi1 Perfect Cut cigar cutter.
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