La Union Humidor by Tatuaje and My Father Cigars (Black)

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.

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.

40 CT BOX (20 TATUAJE AND 20 MY FATHER CIGARS EACH MEASURING 7 1/4 X 50 WITH A TAPERED 109 CAP)

INCLUDES HUMIDOR AND LIMITED EDITION XI1 XIKAR CUTTER