他们的工作关系始于2003年,当时古巴出生的加西亚移民到美国并在迈阿密的小哈瓦那区建立了他的第一家雪茄厂——El Rey de los Habanos。同年,加西亚在一次活动中遇到了约翰逊,从此成为了他的第一个私人品牌客户。从那时起,许多受欢迎的雪茄品牌应运而生,其中许多甚至进入了《雪茄鉴赏家》的前25名。
La Union分为两个不同的盒装,它们以红色或黑色的外观而区分。每个盒子内都包含一支由Johnson混合的雪茄和一支由Garcia混合的雪茄,每种混合都有其独特的包装纸。La Union Prominente Especial Black盒内含有一支Johnson混合的雪茄,包裹在1号阴影种植的2号尼加拉瓜Corojo '99外叶中,以及一支Garcia混合的雪茄,包裹在厄瓜多尔Habano外叶中。对于La Union Prominente Especial Red盒,Johnson使用厄瓜多尔Sumatra,Garcia使用3号康涅狄格州阔叶4号。
My Father Cigars And Tatuaje Celebrate 20 Years With La Union
Jan 26, 2024 | ByThomas Pappalardo
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My Father Cigars And Tatuaje Celebrate 20 Years With La Union
Relationships are a precious thing, whether it is family, friends, business partners or a combination of all of the above. José “Pepin” Garcia of My Father Cigars and Pete Johnson of Tatuaje are celebrating two decades of a fruitful relationship with a quartet of limited-edition and considerably expensive cigars called La Union, Spanish for “the union.”
Their working relationship began in 2003 when the Cuban-born Garcia emigrated to the United States in 2003 and established his first cigar factory, El Rey de los Habanos, in Miami’s Little Havana district. That same year, Garcia met Johnson at an event and from there became Garcia’s first private-label client. From that union have sprung many popular cigar brands, many of which have even found themselves in Cigar Aficionado’s Top 25.
Tatuaje and My Father
For La Union, four blends were created, two by each cigarmaker. Each is available in only one vitola, which the cigarmakers call Prominente Especial. It measures 7 1/4 inches long by 50 ring gauge and is topped with a 109-style belicoso head.
La Union is split in two different box sets that are distinguished by their red or black exteriors. Inside each box is one blend by Johnson and one by Garcia, and each blend has its own distinctive wrapper. The La Union Prominente Especial Black box contains a Johnson-blended cigar clad in a shade-grown Nicaraguan Corojo ’99 cover leaf and a Garcia-blended cigar covered in Ecuador Habano. For the La Union Prominente Especial Red box, Johnson uses Ecuador Sumatra and Garcia uses Connecticut broadleaf.
The inside of each cigar is made with all-Nicaraguan binder and fillers, leaves that were all grown by the Garcias, including some Pelo d’Oro leaf.
The cigars blended by Johnson will have a closed foot, whereas Garcia’s will have a traditional, open foot.
These special cigars are considerably expensive: each has a suggested retail price of $60. They are produced at the My Father Cigars S.A factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.
Tatuaje and My Father
The outer and inner lid and the cigar ribbons all feature the La Union logo which is a rendering of the shaking hands of Pete Johnson and Pepin’s son Jaime, who runs My Father Cigars with his father, with Pepin’s hand coming from above to bless the union. The boxes come 40 cigars in total, 20 of each blend.
Production is limited to 1,500 boxes each of the red and black boxes, with 1,200 allocated for the U.S. market and 300 for international markets. Each individually-numbered box includes a Xikar cutter.
Jose Ortega of My Father Cigars said shipping would begin “in about three weeks.”
他们的工作关系始于2003年,当时古巴出生的加西亚移民到美国并在迈阿密的小哈瓦那区建立了他的第一家雪茄厂——El Rey de los Habanos。同年,加西亚在一次活动中遇到了约翰逊,从此成为了他的第一个私人品牌客户。从那时起,许多受欢迎的雪茄品牌应运而生,其中许多甚至进入了《雪茄鉴赏家》的前25名。
La Union分为两个不同的盒装,它们以红色或黑色的外观而区分。每个盒子内都包含一支由Johnson混合的雪茄和一支由Garcia混合的雪茄,每种混合都有其独特的包装纸。La Union Prominente Especial Black盒内含有一支Johnson混合的雪茄,包裹在1号阴影种植的2号尼加拉瓜Corojo '99外叶中,以及一支Garcia混合的雪茄,包裹在厄瓜多尔Habano外叶中。对于La Union Prominente Especial Red盒,Johnson使用厄瓜多尔Sumatra,Garcia使用3号康涅狄格州阔叶4号。
My Father Cigars And Tatuaje Celebrate 20 Years With La Union
Jan 26, 2024 | ByThomas Pappalardo
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My Father Cigars And Tatuaje Celebrate 20 Years With La Union
Relationships are a precious thing, whether it is family, friends, business partners or a combination of all of the above. José “Pepin” Garcia of My Father Cigars and Pete Johnson of Tatuaje are celebrating two decades of a fruitful relationship with a quartet of limited-edition and considerably expensive cigars called La Union, Spanish for “the union.”
Their working relationship began in 2003 when the Cuban-born Garcia emigrated to the United States in 2003 and established his first cigar factory, El Rey de los Habanos, in Miami’s Little Havana district. That same year, Garcia met Johnson at an event and from there became Garcia’s first private-label client. From that union have sprung many popular cigar brands, many of which have even found themselves in Cigar Aficionado’s Top 25.
Tatuaje and My Father
For La Union, four blends were created, two by each cigarmaker. Each is available in only one vitola, which the cigarmakers call Prominente Especial. It measures 7 1/4 inches long by 50 ring gauge and is topped with a 109-style belicoso head.
La Union is split in two different box sets that are distinguished by their red or black exteriors. Inside each box is one blend by Johnson and one by Garcia, and each blend has its own distinctive wrapper. The La Union Prominente Especial Black box contains a Johnson-blended cigar clad in a shade-grown Nicaraguan Corojo ’99 cover leaf and a Garcia-blended cigar covered in Ecuador Habano. For the La Union Prominente Especial Red box, Johnson uses Ecuador Sumatra and Garcia uses Connecticut broadleaf.
The inside of each cigar is made with all-Nicaraguan binder and fillers, leaves that were all grown by the Garcias, including some Pelo d’Oro leaf.
The cigars blended by Johnson will have a closed foot, whereas Garcia’s will have a traditional, open foot.
These special cigars are considerably expensive: each has a suggested retail price of $60. They are produced at the My Father Cigars S.A factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.
Tatuaje and My Father
The outer and inner lid and the cigar ribbons all feature the La Union logo which is a rendering of the shaking hands of Pete Johnson and Pepin’s son Jaime, who runs My Father Cigars with his father, with Pepin’s hand coming from above to bless the union. The boxes come 40 cigars in total, 20 of each blend.
Production is limited to 1,500 boxes each of the red and black boxes, with 1,200 allocated for the U.S. market and 300 for international markets. Each individually-numbered box includes a Xikar cutter.
Jose Ortega of My Father Cigars said shipping would begin “in about three weeks.”